60 Creative and Awesome Icon Sets for Inspiration
The advent of the social media has brought about a dynamic transformation in the way we conduct business. In the present time if we continue to stick the traditional practices for conducting business, then we are going to loose out on a lot of prospective opportunities. The social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and others have turned out to be the ideal vehicle for advertising a particular business and the services provided by it. Through this platform not only the entrepreneurs can reach out to potential clients globally but at the same time communicate with them directly.
A modern website has all the features whereby it will be possible to link their business profile in the social media platforms with the official websites. Therefore, with the click of a single button the viewers will get redirected to the Facebook page and vice versa. However, since every business house in the present time are integrating such features, the actually challenge lies in making it as interesting as possible so that the viewers get really attracted to it.
Many attractive social media icons are available on the internet that has the ability to enhance the appearance of the website. We have a shortlisted 60 of the best and the most interesting of them which is suitable for different kinds of websites, starting from corporate websites, websites of institutions, media houses and other kinds. On the internet there are millions of such icons which might confuse you so this comprehensive list is surely going to help you.
1. Extreme Grunge Social Media Garments Icons Pack
This high quality, hand made, icon pack is full with 20 Extreme Grunge Social Media Garments. Each icon is in .PNG format with transparent backgrounds, sized at 256×256px. Icons are free for commercial and personal use. Garments were dyed after completion. This leads to vintage, distressed look. Possible streaks, used appearance and abrasions are intended and are feature and quality of the garments.
2. Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set
This icon set contains 26 icons of your favorite social media sites such as Digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon, Twitter, Facebook and several more!
3. 6 cool Twitter Icons
4. Furry Cushions Social Icons Set
A set with 6 transparent furry social icons in .PNG. This set was designed by Andrea Austoni and released especially for Nou pe and its readers.
5. Social Trucks Icons
Ten social icons depicting spacious trucks to deliver your tweets, links and status updates across all major social networks. No traffic jam can stop them!
6. Desktop Engrave
7. This is Art icons
8. Free Animal Icon Set
Contains the icons in all sizes, Windows, Mac and PNG formats.
9. Bear Brick Icons
The sizes are a little f’ed up but it works for me. Anyway, 4 bear brick icons, enjoy.
10. Grass Textured Social Bookmarking Icon Set
The Grass Textured Social Icon Set has been created by Richie Thimmaiah, from Rich Works exclusively for Specky boy Design Magazine readers and are free to use for both your personal and commercial projects but may not be modified, sold or redistributed. The icons are packaged with 3 different sizes to suit your needs: 256px, 128px and 64px.
11. Free Transparent and Vector Web Icon Set
The download files includes 3 backgrounds and you can place these on any of your own choices too. 100% Vector PSD,Transparent Icons, Apple Gloss/Pillow emboss style.
12. Apple Mug Icons and Extras
13. IC Colour Icon Set by design deck
New IC Colour Icon Set with 28 Icons in total in JPG, PNG & PSD format, the IC Colour Icon Set is an extended version of our previous release the IC Minimal Icon Set!
14. Mini Actions Icon Set
The icons included are for all types of actions including padlock icon, cloud icon, new document, edit document, delete document icons, mail, pin.map marker, mail icon, comment icons, RSS, dribble, twitter, Facebook, pinterest social icons and more.Our Mini Actions Icons come in JPG & PNG format and a size of 20px x 20px.
15. Meteocons
Meteocons is a free weather icon set, it works perfect for apps or your new web project! This set containg 40+ icons available in PSD, CSH, EPS, SVG, Desktop font and Web font.You may use these icons for both commercial and personal projects and customize them any way you like.
16. Social Media Stamp Collections
Social media integration has become an important part of modern web design. It is a free social media stamp collection to brand your work. All of them are highly recognizable by people. A Free Social Media Stamp Collection to brand your work. You are allowed to use these icons in any type of project. We hope you will enjoy our stamps and don’t forget to share them with your awesome friends.
17. IZ3 Elite-Icons Package
Elite is the new version of iZ3 icons pack. Includes new icons in a variety of dimensions and formats.
18. Academic Icon Set
The icons are available as transparent PNGs as well as Photoshop PSDs in a size of 128×128 pixels. The icons are released under a Creative Commons Attribution license.
19. Rounder PNG
Addition 128?128png 43 icons.
20. Camino Icons
A few icons for the Mac OSX super browser Camino, 5 colors and a retro look for your favorite browser.
21. New Twitter Icon 2012
The twitter icons come in 3 alternate colors as stated by twitter the blue, white and black and also comes in 3 alternate sizes 64×64, 32×32 and 16×16. Please use our New Twitter Icon 2012 (PSD) commercially or personally, but we do have some restrictions on how the zip file is used.
22. Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons
This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed. This Icon Pack is chuck full of 20 Grunge Peeling Social Media Stickers, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.
23. Social Networking Icons
Here’s some more free vectors! This time, I’m bringing you some social bookmarking icons. I have them in color, and black and white, and they retain there ‘coolness’ when resized. There simple, clean icons, which I hope you enjoy! Feel free to use them on your next project. Below are the color versions of the icons.
24. IC Mini Social Icon Set
Todays Design freebie is the IC Mini Social Icon Set, a social icon set containing 18 icons in JPG, PNG and PSD format. Icons included for:Twitter, Dribble, Rss, Facebook, Vimeo, Github, You tube, Last-FM, Ember, Flickr, Forest, Ever note, Tumbler, Share-this, Skype, LinkedIn, behance and Digg.
25. Social Media Glyphs
26. Dark Social Icons
27. Shiny Social Icons
28. Wood Social Icons
A set of 14 wood social icons at 64x64px. Those original wood icons are ideal to bring a classic and rustic feel to your design. This would be our volume 1 of a series of woody icons.
29. A Free Leather Social Media Icon Set
This icon set was a pleasure to create, and i really liked the end outcome of how the icon set turned out. The icon set in total includes 12 icons from 12 of the most popular social media websites. The icon set is available to download for free, and can be used in commercial non commercial design projects as you please.
30. Slick Grid Style Free Social Media Icon Set
The icon set includes 12 icons in total, for what i believe to be 12 of the most popular social media websites. Each icon set included within the set is 64px by 64px, the perfect size for web projects.
31. Glass Social Icons
32. Blue Print Social Icon Set
Blueprint Social is a set of 16 social media icons in blueprint style which is matching our other free icon set Blueprint Adobe. The set of icons are completely free for both personal and commercial use, attribution is not required but will be much appreciated. For using them in product that is for sale, please check out extended license.
33. Office Space
The icons are free for personal use and also free for commercial use, but we require linking to our web site.
34. Free set Hand Drawn Icons
The icons come in PSD format (all in one PSD file). They are made of vector shapes so they can be re-sized and scaled to meet your needs. You can easily style the shape layers to change colors or add other effects.
35. Vintage Media stamps
This free icon set, by PSD Dude, consists of 14 icons for major social media networks, as well as common content-sharing icons like an RSS feed icon and an email icon. Because these icons look good on a light or dark background, you can integrate them easily with your website. You can also create your own stamps by using the provided PSD template.
36. Token
37. Blue Web Icons
Web Icons that I did a long time a go for “Clipart Design” Company.
38. Monochromatic Icon Set
39. The Most Complete Android Style Icon set
40. Popular applications’ icon set
Here’s another great freebie for you guys, this time a full set of icons featuring the most popular applications nowadays, it includes some nice applications like: dribble, 280 slides, android, osx, drop box, Google plus and much more. These set was done by the design team behind iconshock.
41. Free High detail social icons
In this set you’ll find almost all nowadays social sites icons, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, YouTube, Flickr, Dribbble etc. You can download all the icons PNG files for free, however if you want to have the sources you have to buy them for a really low price.
42. Belgorod-NET icon set
The icon set for Belgorod-NET site.
43. Social Media Icon Set by Brain Leaf
44. Beautiful & Free Social Media Icons
This social media icon set includes icons for the following applications: Facebook, RSS, Twitter, Dribble, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumbler, Ever note, LinkedIn, Vimeo, Digg, Deviant Art, Bebo, Flickr, Posterous, Blogger, Word Press, Delicious, Sound Cloud, Yahoo, email, Stumble Upon, YouTube, MySpace, Last.FM, Design Float, Orkut, Behance, Net vibes, Reedit, Forrst, Groove shark, Path, Google Plus and Picasa.
45. Free Style Guides Icon Set For Writers And Editors
Free icon set, called Style Guides. Perfect for websites with an editorial flair, Style Guides features 14 high-quality icons ranging from 32×32 to 512×512 pixels. Designed by Thomas McGee of Wine Press of Words, this set has been exclusively released for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
46. Onibari Light
47. Free PNG Credit Card, Debit Card and Payment Icons Set (18 Icons)
A set with 18 payment icons in PNG format, in the resolutions 32×32px — 128×128px. This set was designed by Phil Matthews and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
48. RSS feed Button Pack
A collection of 18 different white back grounded PNGs 190×190 pixels resolutioned, kindly suitable for any RSS linking subscription website. All these buttons are the result of a collection I made around the web.
49. Free icon Set
50. Icon Pack
A full set of icons ready for use with mac and pc just click DOWNLOAD. Now with added PSD. file.
51. Made of Wood
52. The Ultimate Icon Set For Web Designers
A couple of months ago we released the beautiful Flavors Icon set that was designed by Oliver Twardowski, a graphic designer from Bonn, Germany, the set aimed to help designers in their Web and user interface designs, containing 177 icons in a resolution of 48×48 pixels.
53. Retro Candy
This free icon set, brought to you by Jan Cavan of Dawghouse Design Studio, is inspired by a retro, hand-drawn theme. There are 18 icons in PNG format, sized at 200x200px. The icons include objects such as a chat bubble, a notepad, a martini glass, and more.
54. A Set of 15 TV Icons
Fresh off my desk is a set of 15 TV icons, which I’ve made available in 256 x 256 pixels. Hope you like them, and if you’d like any particular icon in a different color, feel free to email me your request.
55. 204 Google Plus interface icons, including several sizes.
To continue with the same topic, today we have released an off the hook freebie for all of you featuring a huge bundle of Google Plus interface icons ready for download. The freebie includes both vector (PNG) and pixel perfect (PSD) sources, color and gray versions and different sizes; if you like this awesome freebie, you can show us your gratitude by sharing it with your friends or a quick tweet.
56. Free Icon Set for Web Developers: Coded
Designed with web developers in mind, Coded features 25 high-quality icons ranging from 512×512px to 32×32px. Designed by Thomas McGee of Winepress of Words, this set has been released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
57. Round Theme Icons
58. Mobile Icon Set
This is a free icon set for mobile application development websites. They can also be used for the iPhone and Android applications. The shiny and glossy feel of icons make them professional and also distinctive enough to be unique.
59. Web 2 Origami
60. Icons by Brankic
A set of 350 pixel perfect glyphs icons, perfect for apps, websites or just about anything you can think of. You may use this icon set for both personal and commercial use, which means this resource can be used in any project without worrying about licensing.
Hope you all like my collection, Please post your comments.
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