60 Free High Quality Icon Sets For Your Next Project
Jane Bernardo
Using icons in designs is a hot trend these days. Most of the websites now a days uses icons for their logos, navigation, bookmarks or use to represent their website.
I’ll be featuring 60 high quality icons set that are free to download but be sure to read the terms of the owner’s icon.
1. Free Cupcake Icon
Cupcake icon designed by ArtDesigner for sweet tooth websites. It is available in variety of sizes.
2. Moleskine Icon
Moleskine Icon is a beautifully crafted design with pixel perfection by Michael Stezycki. The icon comes in 7 different sizes ranging from 16×16 all the way up to 512×512. The download also includes a wide variety of file formats to meet all your needs.
3. Paradise Cherry Icon
Cute sweet cherry icon. It is available in sizes between 64×64 px and 512×512 px.
4. Ktax K-7 Icon
Two highly detailed replacement icons for Apple’s Quicktime player. Though drastically different from traditional quicktime icons, it blends in nicely with the rest of your dock or desktop.
5. Starflash Brownie
Kodak’s instant camera Starflash Brownie icon based. It is available 512×512px .png, .icns and .ico. Free for private and commercial projects.
6. Fjernsyn
Set of cool icons from young Danish designer Rasmus Nielsen, is a nice option.
7. USB Prober
USB Prober application for Mac icon based. Available in 512×512px.
8. Leica M7
6 Leica set icons in the resolutions 512×512px. Available as .PNG, .ICNS and .iContainter.
9. Apple Icons
Mac logo like icons. It contains 8 icons of different colored apples all in the rsrc format for use with Mac OS.
10. Iconlicious
A cute milk carton icon from Iconlicious.
11. Latte: 48px Icon Set
Latte’ contains 25 different icons in the resolutions 48×48px.
12. Notes and Evernote
An icon pack of Notes & Evernote. Available resolutions: 512×512px.
13. IsoIcons Workspace
Workspace like icons that ar available in 128px×128px resolution.
14. Mira Works
A calm office environment inspired icons from Mira Works. It is available in three different sizes: 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px.
15. iCandies Icon Set: 60 Free Icons
iCandies Icon Set, a set with 60 high quality icons in 64×64px, 48×48px and 32×32px, available in .EPS, .AI and .PNG. The set is designed by the talented folks from IconEden on a sole purpose of giving your projects a sleek and geeky style or provide crisp, attractive icons for your modern and fashionable-looking interfaces.
16. Designer Icons – Professionally Hand-Crafted Free Icon Set
This set of icons was professionally crafted by professional icon artist, Parthiban Mohanraj. This set has all the values of stock icons.
17. Blue Vinyl Fonts
Mac OS X icons collection. Colorful vinyl records and vintage style record cases. 16 icons in all.
18. This is ART 2
A collection of 12 icons all with maximal dimensions 512×512px. Creative renditions of various application related subjects as icons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.
19. The Graphs 2 – One graph collection to rule them all
This icon collection is ready for the future. With the power of Scalable Vector Graphics you can use these icons directly into your web pages.
20. High-res Browser Logos
High-resolution browser logos for your presentation or a blog post; these icons are available in the resolutions up to 256×256px, .PNG, each with their own official shadow treatment, and no background matte color. Presented by Paul Irish.
21. Various Smartphones Icons
This icon pack contains 14 icons for assorted smartphones, ranging from the Blackberry Storm to Motorola Droid. Maximum size available is 256×256 px.
22. Free PNG Credit Card, Debit Card and Payment Icons
Payment Icon Set, a set with 18 payment icons in PNG format, in the resolutions 32×32px — 128×128px. This set was designed by Phil Matthews.
23. Icon Pack: 256×256 Business Icons
This icon set contains 26 Business themed icons. Each icon is available in 256×256 .png format. Included in this set are User icons, Warning & Alert icons, Chat & Email icons, Maps & World Icons, and several other icons that are appropriate in business settings.
24. Upojenie
This collection includes 40 icons for iPhone and iPod Touch.
25. Construction
Construction is a free icon set with a total of 25 icons, designed uniformly with any of our current premium icon sets. As illustrated for building and construction tools and equipments, this icon set is aimed for use in your projects related to construction or infrastructure.
26. Iconfactory by David Lanham
This collection contains 42 square icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard.
27. Iconfactory Freeware by Dave Brasgalla
This collection contains 4 icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard.
28. Plush Icons Set
Plush toys icon based. This set includes 6 different cute plush icons in the resolutions 128×128px and 256×256px. Format: ICO and PNG.
29. E-Commerce Icon Set
E-Commerce Icon Set includes Products on Sale, New products, Checkout, Secure Payment, Credit Cards, Delivery, Shopping Bag, Empty Shopping Bag, Shopping Cart, Empty Shopping Cart.
Usage: Free for Personal and Commercial Projects (Size: 128, 64, 48, 32px)
30. MobileMe Icons by Prathyush
Six MobileMe icons with the resource PSD.
31. Flip Clock by Maxdicapua
This is a fully editable and scalable (except for the noise layers) and well-organized flip clock icon.
32. Boolean
Enter Boolean, a thriving city inhabited by tiny icons
33. 32px Mantra v2
Includes 36 free icons in PNG. It is available in the resolution 32×32px.
34. Solar System Icons
Solar system icons inspired. It contains the Sun, Moon, 8 planets, and 3 dwarf planets.
35. Littlear Icon Package
Unusual and funny set of icons giving life to different kinds of application, folder and file icons.
36. Compass
iPhone icon inspired by the Compass application. It is available in resolutions fit for iPhone, iPad, iPhone 4 and iTunes, from 57×57 px to 512×512 px.
37. 20 Free Marker-Style Icons
This icon set is originally inspired by the iPhone’s Notes.app and designed for Notepad (WordPress theme). Icons are designed in a simple marker stroke and can be applied on any color. You can use them in sketchy or modern design as seen on the iPhone and iPad apps.
38. Social Media Icons
Set of Vector Social Media Icons with the Google Buzz, Microsoft Bing, Picasa, Meetup, Feedburner, Ebay, Drupal, Gowalla, ICQ, Metacafe, Yelp, Xing, Paypal, Podcast, and various color buttons.
39. Project Icons
A pack of 182 32×32px icons. It is available in .PNG, .ICO, .ICNS, .iContainer.
40. PixeloPhilia2
This icon set contains 44 icons for web sites and web apps by Creative Commons.
41. iPad Icon
Simple icon set of Apple’s iPad.
42. Free Font Symbol Signs
This free collection includes common used symbol signs for public services such as Toilets, Telephone, First Aid, Smoking, Baby, Recycle Icon, Arrows collection and much, much more. The signs can be used for restaurant signage, hotel signage, office way-finding, airport signage and more.
43. Free Font Dingbests
The original dingbat font was designed in the sixties. This is a collection of dingbat fonts for the nineties, commissioned by FontShop. Over 700 pictograms including fax, laser printer, diskette, computer and mouse, as well as all the classic images. A special selection of them has been put together in the single font FF Dingbests.
44. 48 Free 16×16 pictograms by Miro Keller
A set of 48 tiny 16×16px pictograms to use in your projects. They are shared under a Creative Commons.
45. Weather Icons by Gavion Elliott
This is a set of 16px weather icons in PNG, JPG and PSD format.
46. 120 Free New Icons
A set of 120 simple icons, in 68×68px and 48×48px resolutions. You can either grab and freely use various elements or crop them for your resolution.
47. gCons: Free All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers (100 icons PSD)
The icons come in 12 different colors and are available in PSD, PNG, JPG and GIF formats. This set was designed by Sarfraz Shoukat.
48. Free Country Flag Icons
37 country flag icons rendered at 256×256, 128×128, 64×64, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16 pixels. Formats available are png, ico and icns. All the icons contained in this set are free for non-commercial use.
49. Flag Favicons
These world flag favicons were created from the standard 16 color palette in IconEdit32. The favicons are original work and free to download, use and modify in any way you like. Available in .ico format.
50. Icons at Artcore Skizzenblog
A set of unique, creative icons available for non-commercial use. Released under Creative Commons license.
51. Somatic Rebirth Extras 2 by David Lanham
This collection contains 16 illustrated icons with large resources for Win and Mac.
52. Desktop Icons by Greg Barnes
This desktop icon set includes Evil Dead 2, Vintage Kitchen icon set, Terrariums icon set as well as Vampire Hunter Kit. Coming up soon: Christmas Ornaments and Army of Darkness icon set. Available for Mac, PC and iContainer.
53. PaperPlanet Icon Pack
The pack consists of the icons for various applications, music and video players, standard Mac icons as well as a couple of extras.
54. tickfiguredancer
Four custom icons based on the super hero team ‘the Avengers’, available for Mac OS X and Windows. 
55. A Live Spell Check
In this freebie icon set, you will find 16 free social media icons for sites that designers appreciate (such as deviantART, Flickr, Twitter, and more). This free icon set is called A Life in Pixels and is inspired by Minimalist design philosophies.The set includes 16 32px x 32px PNG files.
56. Free Glossy E-Commerce Icons
Presenting 32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file.
57. Shopping Cart Icon
Shopping cart full of items icon based.
58. Chalkwork Payment Icons
Chalkwork Payments is a free set of online payments icons, designed to perfectly complement all other sets in the Chalkwork Family. Featuring 21 original icons and 105 variations, these graphical representations of common payment services and payment-related imagery are a completely free icon set available for personal and commercial projects
59. Credit Card Icon Set
A set of six icons for showing your visitors that you accept credit card payment.
60. Weby Icons
eby Icon Set brings to you 100 icons at 64×64 pixels ready to be used in your application or website.The icons are available in PNG, ICO and ICNS format. They are free to use for both personal and commercial projects, including websites, templates & software.
Hope this icons can help you in your next project. If there are icons that I miss, please do suggest it and I’ll be happy to update it.
For Further Reading:
Did you enjoy this article and found it useful?
Get even more from us:
Iconsguide
Posted 103 days ago 25Check http://www.iconsguide.com . There is a list of all major icon shops with analytics.
هتل
Posted 107 days ago 24The link for the browser icons is not right
Thanks so much… really useful stuff here! Tweeted! :)
really usful
Promote app
Posted 154 days ago 23Great collection. Thanks a lot!
hack facebook password instantly
Posted 203 days ago 22I can not thank you enough for the blogposts on your web-site. I know you set a lot of time and effort into these and really hope you know how considerably I appreciate it. I hope I’ll do a similar thing for another person at some time.
CUSTOM ICON DESIGN
Posted 265 days ago 21Glad to see our icon collection included.
48. Free Country Flag Icons
Cauldron
Posted 266 days ago 20Sweet icons, they’ll come in handy.
tony
Posted 412 days ago 18link to browser icons isnt working :(
Matt
Posted 423 days ago 17Holly crap.. what an awesome collection. Probably the best that I ever seen on the net!
Syed
Posted 521 days ago 16good collection of icons.
janet
Posted 522 days ago 15hey, very nice collection here. some are quite chic. will sure add a new of these icons to jazz up my site. thanks for sharing.
Inspirationfeed
Posted 524 days ago 14Great collection!
John Columbo
Posted 525 days ago 13Thanks so much… really useful stuff here! Tweeted! :)
Kyle__sullivan
Posted 536 days ago 12The link for the browser icons is not correct
iconshock
Posted 539 days ago 11Thanks for this great roundup, hoping yu can include our icons in your future lists :)
http://www.iconshock.com/icon-sets/
Keep the good work friends and CONGRATS for your new design, it’s looking great !!!
alfred
Posted 283 days ago 19http://www.iconshock.com/icon-sets/ not found … instead dispalys…..
You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ” at line 1…..
KAUSE
Posted 541 days ago 1060 Juegos gratis de alta calidad Icono para su próximo proyecto
Mark Fusco
Posted 541 days ago 9I love a huge collection of free icons! I will definitely put a few of these to use.
rufus
Posted 541 days ago 8Delightful article, very useful (for the designers among us)! Thanks
Enursa
Posted 543 days ago 7Thanks dude. It really nice icons.
Virtual Assistants
Posted 543 days ago 6nice icon collection and it’s FREE :) keep it up
Renato Alves
Posted 543 days ago 5All of them are amazing!! Thanks Bernado for your list of icon.
2experts
Posted 543 days ago 4Wow, some of these are just brilliant!
Rahul
Posted 543 days ago 3Waw w!!! I love Hd and i always put hd picture in my wallpapers : great list ! thank you for this )
Raybak
Posted 543 days ago 2tahts an extra ordinary huge collection of free icons..
Riccardo P
Posted 543 days ago 1Great, thanks!