Icons are images specifically designed to deliver a message and good Icons are simply awesome to for that purpose. For that reason at good collection of icons can be really handsome when you’re designing a web site or a blog and can be used ti kick start or support the creative process. There are thousands of free icon sets available which is very good, but it can be hard to find the Icon Sets suitable for use in web design. One option is to do the creative work yourself and here some icon design tutorials can help you get started.
This article gives you one of the largest compilations of free icon resources and icon sets aimed for use in web design. Please let me know if any Resources or Icon packs that should have been included are missing. Always make sure you read the license before using any Icons as this may change rapidly.
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Mobile Icon Set
Aroma
The Webdesigner Sketchup Icons
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WooFunction Icons
Webcons
Proxal Icon Set v2
Hand-Drawn Icons
Portal Icons
Soft Media Icons Vol. 1
Soft Media Icons Vol. 2
Templatic Ecommerce Glyphs
The Aristocracy Free Web Icon Set
Dropbox Aquaized
Quartz
Characters so far
Glyphious
Addictive Flavour
Payment Method Icons
Credit Card Icons
Payment Icon Set
Social Icons hand drawned
Social Media Bookmark Icon
AllGN Robots Icons
Vintage Social Media Stamps
Stack site icons
MICRO + NickelCobalt
32px mania iconset
Xiao Icon
Trainee Icon Set
E-Commerce Icon Set
E-Commerce Glossy
Shopping Icons
E-Commerce Icons
August Interactive Vector Icons
Summer beach and seaworld set
iconSweets
Liquisoft Icons
Web Injection
Aa Free Icon Set for webmasters and web developers provided by tutorial9.net. The Icon Set has been created by Midtone Design Studio The set includes 26 free icons at 48×48px size and in a Png format. This Free Icon Set is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution.
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ecqlipse 2
This packet contains 105 system replacement and 137 application icons. Size is 128 x 128 px.
Retro Icon Set
Token
-90+ 32×32 .ico files for use with Vista and Windows 7 -90+ 128×128 .png files for use with any ‘dock’ applications + White Versions of the above!
Mini Icons
MannMitDerTarnjacke
Icon Set contains 27 .png dock icons and 25 .ico files.
Lucid: Icons
Contains over 250 .png dock icons in both black and white (+500 total!) of widely used applications, games, and system icons. PSD included
3D Cartoon Icons Pack III
This pack has 205 icons with 3D effect.
Pinvoke
Fugue Icons: 2,225 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel). Diagona Icons: 400 icons are included in PNG format (10×10 and 16×16 pixel).
Pace Icon Set
Free web development icons
Icojoy team’s new 24×24 free icon set in web 2.0 style
BacktoPixel
Icojoy team presents new free icon set in pixel style. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.
Free web development icons #3
The subjects of this set are blogs, dating, player, social networks. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.
Free web development icons #2
These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.
Free web development icons #1
These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.
Sweetie
Sweetie BasePack (182 icons) Sweetie WebCommunication (37 icons)
Fam Fam Fam
4 free sets of mini size but good quality icons
Developpers Icons
105 icons (32×32) for your toolbar or anything. (.png, .ico, .icns, .icontainer)
Simplicio
The set contains 78 free icons in .png and .ico including AI which can be useful for both corporate and personal setting.
BS-Markup
Sanscons Icon Set
bwpx Icons
Vector Icon Set
“sketch’d up!” Icon Set
Facebook UI Icon Set
the facebook ui icons in a high res and vector form… with slight adherences to the tango specification
Liquidicity Icon Set
165 vector icons x 5 colours = 825 icons. 
Web Application Icons
Web-Icons-Pack
Ganato – Psd Icons
Web2.0 Icons Pack
MimiGlyphs
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Wow what fabulous collection of useful icons. Many are really beautiful. Thanks.
Very useful resource for web designers and definitely worthy of bookmarking! I like that you also included the Icon repositories and search engines… However you might could have broken it into multiple posts.
Thanks for this!
These are great sets, I downloaded a couple. Thanks for sharing.
Nice collection
Great collections! I have downloaded few sets of them.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi, check my free icon set too
http://bevelandemboss.net/show-template.php?id=17
Great icons. Thanks for sharing!
Unbelievable! A very NICE collection, thank you!
Great collection!!
10Q man. Really useful
Love the free icon round-up! I have also made a few sets that can be found here: http://www.25icons.com. Would love them added to the list.
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Great collection. Many thanks.
Great collection !
thank u………….
Huge List ! I love this virtual world here you can find so much free stuff ! Congrats to the artists!
A lots of icons man. That’s great. One of I like the most is “Function free icon set” package. Thanks for sharing
Cracking list there, but how can i use them all lol
wooohoo great list i tells ya
Are there any other sites that gives free sample products and some other free stuffs?–~
Great Collection.
Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks for sharing… nice one…
Thanks. Downloaded!
Any Hannah Montana icons somewhere?
Great! This collection of resources is very interesting for a webdesigner!
You do realize a lot of these are not free for commercial purposes and some are not even free to take (eg. the Scholny Univercitet icons)?
Thanks for letting us know Sherry. I have removedthe Scholny incons.
Awesome Free Icon Sets and Icon Collections for Web Designers
Cracking list there, but how can i use them all lol
I very pleased to find this internet site on bing, just what I was searching for : D too saved to bookmarks .
Cool and useful collection. Thanks
Shared it an gave a link at here: http://www.deluxextreme.com/freebies/50-awesome-free-icon-sets-and-collections
Thank you very much for these!
best collections
thanks lot
A great set of icons can make a website design project really stand out. Whenever I bump into a site the icons always get me to want to move further through the pages of that particular site.
Excellent ! Bookmarked.
I need it . thanks you so much
Great work this.
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