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Commercial and Free Web Site Icons
The Commercial and Free Web Site Icons section below provides annotated listings of resources to only the best, high quality commercial and free icons for Web sites, including commercial and free blog icons, along with other website icons resources. Download free Web site icons immediately or purchase and download shareware and commercial icons right away, too.
In addition to a wide range of icon styles, colors, sizes, and formats, you'll find commercial and free individual graphic icons for immediate download as well as complete icon sets with dozens of matching, coordinating website icons. Many of the icon creators, especially the shareware and commercial icon designers, will create custom icons for you, too, whether you need website icons, software icons, or other user interface (UI) icons.
For more on creating your own graphic icons, see also Icon Creation, Editing Software Programs, Plugins, and Related Tutorials, Create Graphic Icons with Adobe Illustrator, and Create Graphic Icons, Favicons with Adobe Photoshop. You can also easily create icons with dingbat fonts, too. For dingbat fonts, see the Fonts section, including Pixel Fonts.
Do you know of some good graphics resources for professional quality Web site icons? Recommendations are welcome and appreciated!
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- Commercial, Custom, Shareware, or Royalty-free Stock Icons
- Free Web Site Icons
- Other Web Site Icons Link Resources
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Free Web Site Icons
Free Web site icons in a variety of graphics formats - .ai and vector formats for use with Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDRAW, or other vector graphics software, .eps, .svg, .jpg, .gif, .ico. As much as possible, the formats offered are listed with each listing. Related at WebsiteTips.com: Adobe Illustrator
Vector Images, Illustrations, Shapes, Icons.
- 30 Free Website Icons, Blog Icons, Symbol Icons
Beautifully created free Web site icons include: home, email, comments, audio, links, folder, document, document with text lines, printer, RSS feed, pen, tag, checkmark, heart, calendar. Created with blogs and Web sites in mind. Two sizes available in this pixel-detailed, well-crafted set of 30 high quality free Web site icons, blog icons - 16x16 and 10x10. Free for commercial or personal use. The image sample to the right shows just a few of the icons. More icons at the site, too:- 30 More Free Blog Icons, Website Icons, Symbol Icons - a silvery metal color scheme
- 180 Free Music Icons, Favicons: 120 Music Icons, Audio Recording Icons + 60 Music Favicon Icons
As the title states, you'll find 180 16x16 music icons total - 120 transparent .gif format icons and 60 music favicon .ico format favorites icons (half with gradient backgrounds, half with no backgrounds), one set in the colors to the right and another set with gradient white backgrounds. Includes quarter notes icons, 8th notes icons, audio speaker icons, headset / headphones icons, microphone icons, pre-amp icons, quite a few arrows icons, and much more. Half of the favicons have black icons with transparent backgrounds (no rounded corner gradient background). Great for websites and other uses. More icons added regularly, too. Free for personal or commercial use. Direct links:- 60 Black icons with champagne/tan gradient backgrounds
- 60 Silver & White Ice, Transparent Music Icons, Favicons
- 60 Black with white gradient backgrounds icons
- 165 Vector Icons, Now in 5 Colours
Nicely done Web site icons in blue, green, red, white on black background, and black. Includes common, easily-recognized icons for blogs and Web sites, such as comments icons, shopping cart icons, arrows, clocks, links, audio, headphones, pencils, locks, video camera icons, RSS feed icons, and much more. 165 icons in each set. Adobe Illustrator CS2 vector files, .jpg, .svg, and download all in convenient .zip format. [Icons dated 05/17/2007, by liquidicity, for Go Squared, Ltd.] - Aesthetica Icons
Beautifully done, colorful, nice-looking free icons. “This set is fresh, stylish and modern, all mixed up in the perfect proportions. This set contains 160 high quality web icons in 32-bit transparency in PNG and Photoshop's PSD. They come in 16 x 16px; 24 x 24px; 32 x 32px; 48 x 48px and 128 x 128px size. ” Computers, cogs or gears, locks, clocks, databases, pages, search, printers, stars, favorites, forward, reverse, record, CDs, folders, shopping carts, charts, people, notepad, pencils, books, Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, RSS, comments, attachments, remove, home, film strips, calculators, much more. More icons at this site, too:- Simplistica
- Valentine Love
- Grungy Olive
- Grungy Asphalt
- Ruby Extended
- Christmas Surprise 4
- Ruby Multimedia
- WYSIWYG Sapphire
- WYSIWYG Classic
- Blue Velvet
- ASP.NET Icons
More than 300 professionally designed free icons “for your ASP.NET applications.” They only ask for a link back to their site. If you check them out, though, they could also be used for blog icons, for Web site icons, and more, not just for ASP.NET applications. Note one of their terms regarding website use: “You agree to use the icons presented on this website with ASP.NET, Mono, and ASP web applications (websites) only. The use of the icons on web applications (websites) built on PHP, Perl, ColdFusion and other platforms is not allowed.” [Icons via ASP.NET Icons.] - The Blog Icons
Beautiful quality ready-to-use blog icons - OPML icons, RSS feed icons, trackback and share icons, comments, edit, cancel, tag, download, upload, clock, several permalink icons, and more. Included in this free set are quite a few size icons: 10x10, 16x16, 22x22 (sample shown here), 32x32, 484x48, 96x96, 128x128, and black and white at 256x256. Includes .png, .gif, .jpg, and .svg for nearly all the icons, and other information, too. [Article/tutorial dated 04/07/2007, updated 10/28/2007, by Avi Alkalay.] - Bright! - a Free Icon Set
Beautifully detailed 148 freeEPSformat vector icons for Web, print, and a multitude of projects. Free for personal or commercial use. [Article/tutorial dated 05/15/2008, by Min Tran, Min Tran's Weblog.] - Disability Access Symbols
Available in uncompressed TIFF, positive and negative. Symbols include: blind or visually impaired, accessibility, audio description, telephone typewriter (TTY), volume control telephone, assistive listening systems, sign language interpretation, accessible print, information symbol, closed captioning, opened captioning, Braille symbol. Downloads for PC, Mac versions. Free for personal or commercial use. Instructions, recommended usage at the page, too. [Article/tutorial by Graphic Artists Guild (GAG).] - Doctype Icons 2
42 very well done transparent .gif format small document type icons. Great for blog icons, Web site icons, and other needs for small 10x10 document icons. Icons include: file, text, archive, card, locked, checked, favourite, warning, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Powerpoint, Adobe Acrobat, image, film, .mov, audio, Adobe Photoshop, 3D, vector, Web, link, feed, podcast, plug-in, flash, .swf, .as incl. webdev file, include, markup, markup incl., CSS incl, XML, script, script include, SQL, PHP, PHP incl., .js, .js incl., log, bug report. [Article/tutorial dated 12/06/2006, by Brand Spanking New.] - ExplodingBoy Pixel Icons and More Free Pixel Icons
Dozens of simple, clean pixel icons, great to use for blog icons, website icons. Includes Camera, Comments, Posts, Categories, Next, Previous, Last, Search, User, Edit, CD/DVD, Home, Lock, Key, and much more. “four different color sets - blue, pale blue, orange, and grey.” [Article/tutorial dated 09/13/2005, by Christopher Ware, for ExplodingBoy.] - famfamfam Icons
Popular, high quality icons for websites here. A huge range of icons here in small sizes and great for web site icons, blog icons, etc. Work well with many different web designs, too. Silk (sample shown here): “Smooth, colourful icons for any purpose.” Flags: “Country flags. Small and plentiful.” Mini: “Over 140 pixelicious web icons in GIF format.” [Icons by Mark James, famfamfam.com.] - Feed Icons
Official home of the standard Web RSS feed icon. Download this popular icon in a variety of formats, sizes, colors. Also available for developers in AI, EPS, SVG, PSD, PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF and in sizes from 12x12 to 128x128. (Vector formats are resizable without quality loss.) [Web site: feedicons.com.] - Free Icons
A great variety of free icons available by Techlogica in four sizes: 16x16 Icons, 24x24 Icons, 32x32 Icons, 48x48 Icons. From the icon .zip file: “This icon pack contains 79 icons in 5 formats, for a total of 395 image files. (Both the 8bit and 32bit Icon formats are contained in the .ICO file) List of formats included: 8bit .ICO, 32bit .ICO, 32bit .PNG, 24bit .BMP, 8bit .BMP Magenta Mask.” They also offer commercial icon packs and custom icons for websites, software, and other project needs. [Icons by Techlogica.] - Free Vector Icon Set
25 great-looking scalable Adobe Illustrator format icons with that Web 2.0 look. Clean, beautiful quality. [Vector icons by Monofactor, for Vecteezy.] - Free Web 2.0 Icons
Free Web 2.0 style icons, such as RSS feed blog icons, pencil icons, Home icons, black and white icons, download icons, mp3 iPod music media icons, box icons, light bulb icons, printer icons, recycle icons, pie chart icons, speech bubble or comment icons, red wine icons, security lock icons, arrow icons, computer icons, butterfly icons, mobile cell phone icons, and more. In addition to this page are other pages with Web icon sets in a variety of colors and styles. [Free Web icons by Nikolai Bird webdesign-guru.co.uk.] - Free Web Development Icons
Two sets of small Web development icons here free for any use. 26 16x16 icons in each set, in the following formats: ico, .icns, .tif, .gif, .bmp, .png. Each set is also offered in color and in gray, and “All icons in 2 versions: pixelate for any background ('sharp') & pixelate for white background ('soft')”. They also offer stock icons and custom icons from the icojoy site. [Article/tutorial dated 11/30/2007, by Andrew Zhebrakov, for icojoy.] - IconBase
A multitude of free icons contributed here. You'll find Web icons, blog icons, and also Windows icons, Mac icons, and more. Listed by newest icons, by title, by icons, by most popular, etc. [Free icons community by Yellow Icon Design.] - Markup Icons - mIcons - Kostenlose Icons
Nine or more sets of clean, high quality icons here for website icons, blog icons. Blogset, Schwarze buttons, Docs, Pfeile (arrows), Postinfo, Buttons, Computer, Navigation, Seiteinfo (site info). Nice-looking icons here. [Free icons by Bjorn Seibert, for bs-markup.de.] - Matterform QBullets
A wide assortment of icons especially created for Web sites - navigational cues: external links, up, down, new window; multimedia cues: Acrobat, Flash, Real Media, movie, sound, 3D media, Excel, Word, Powerpoint; content cues: definition, note, help, info, form, search, edit/change, and many more. [Icons by Matterform Media.] - Mini icons [.psd included] part I
Free website icons - very nicely done. Editable .psd files with icons in several sizes: 12 mini arrow icons, 18 mini books icons, 9 mini bullets icons, and more. For even more of these, see:- Mini icons [.psd included] part 2,
- Mini icons [.psd included] part 3,
- Mini icons [.psd included] part 4,
- Mini icons [.psd included] part 5.
- Mini Icons 2
113 clean, simple, small icons, great for blog icons, Web site icons, and other needs for 10x10 grayscale icons. [Article/tutorial dated 12/06/2006, by Brand Spanking New.] - The OPML Project
Official site for the OPML icon. Download the official icon here in a variety of formats and sizes, learn more about it, usage guidelines, and more. “During our quest for an icon during an OPML related project, TagJag.com, we realized we needed to develop our own. You are free to take this icon and spread it around the community, use it for your own projects, or create derivatives. The only thing we request is that you release your creation under the same license to the community.” [Web site: opmlicons.com.] - Pinvoke Icons
High quality 10x10 and 16x16 pixel icons for designers. An incredible assortment here within each set offered. Free and commercial versions are included with each set offered. The commercial versions typically have about twice as many icons as the free versions. Especially great for websites. You'll currently find four sets of icons here, but it looks like more will be added before long, too. Really nice looking icons here. [Icons by Yuusuke Kamiyamane, for Pinvoke.] - School Icons
Free educational icons, clipart, backgrounds, and more. [Web site provided by Makorin.] - The Share Icon Project
Official site for the share icon. Usage guidelines, download the icon in a variety of formats and sizes. “The Share Icon is becoming the de facto standard visual representation for sharing content from any source to multiple destinations: over email, to bookmark or memetracker sites, to your friends on social networks, and more every day.” [Web site: shareicons.com.] - Silk Companion #1 icons
Inspired by famfamfam's Silk icons. “My set was fuelled by a need for additional icons and variations in the same format. I had hoped to create more original icons in the same style however time constraints meant that majority of the 460+ icons are derivations and recompositions of the original set.” [Article/tutorial dated 11/19/2007 by Damien Guard, damieng.] - Sticky Pack
At least 36 free Web site icons, blog icons - reminiscent of a sticky note and has black icons on the yellow sticky note. Nice-looking, certainly unique icon design. See also more of their free icons: [Icons by Adrian, CSSCreme.] - Stock Web Icons
Quite a variety of designs, sizes, and formats here - ready for Web site use, and vector format. Webpro Vector, Webpro Mini, iMini, Web 2 Mini, Simply Bold Vector, Simply Bold Pixel, Simply Bold Mini. [Web icons by Nick La, N.Design Studio.] - Tiny Little Icons
21 totally free small icons designed especially for CMSs, such as for use as blog icons or website icons. Nice-looking white with apple green and other colors. [Icons dated 11/06/2005, by Tom, strawbee.] - Titchy Icons
Need tiny icons? These are 8x8, clean, simple, black and white icons. [Free Icons by Damien Guard, damieng.] - Twotiny and Twotone Icon Sets
At least 120 small icons in these sets. Several colors and two different styles from which to choose. All are free for personal, commercial use. Like many listed on this page, these free icons could be great for blog icons, for website icons, but also for other purposes if you need small icons for a project. [Free Icons by Paul Jarvis, for 2pt3.com.] - Web 2.0 Date Icons For Your Blog
“So you want a sleek looking date icon for all your posts on your blog or web page do you? Well you've come to the right place. Below is a collection of different colors and styles you can choose from and customize. ”.png, .psd formats. Also included are instructions on how to incorporate into WordPress. [Article/tutorial dated 05/11/2007, by Alex, Euphorish.]
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Commercial, Custom, or Royalty-free Stock Icons for Web Sites
Although there are many commercially available Web icons, the listing below includes sites that license commercial Web icons suitable for Web sites, including royalty-free stock icons and custom icons. Most or all of these icon designers create custom icons specifically for your needs, too, whether you need Web site icons, software icons, or print icons, or other types of icons. Some of these talented icon designers also offer digital artwork, vector images, and other products, too.
- Angular Stock Icons
(This was previously listed as '90 Free Vector Icons Set'). Absolutely stunning, full color angular icons with a Web 2.0 style - great for Web site icons, blog icons, and other purposes. Stock icons available for purchase and instant download. Lots more at their site, too. [Stock Icons by Yellow Icon Design.] - Delicious Icons
Exceptional vector icons in a variety of styles, colors, and more. Purchase and download instantly. Custom icons also available. Licensing for personal and commercial use. [Stock Icons by Tom Nulens, Sodafish.] - Icojoy
They offer over 6,700 icons in their catalog. Looking through their site, I found a wide variety of styles and designs here. Many icon sets are created with blogs and websites in mind, and they also have icons for many other uses. Reasonably priced. [Icons by Icojoy.] - IconBuffet
Blog and CMS icons, Web site icons, holiday icons, and more. “Royalty-free stock icons and digital artwork for Web designers and software developers.” Scalable vector format icons and .png, .tiff, .bmp, .gif, Windows .ico, Mac .icns. Lot of styles, sizes, varieties of icons for just about any purpose. [IconBuffet is by Firewheel Design.] - Iconfactory and StockIcons
Professionally crafted stock icons for websites, print, and software. “Affordable, royalty-free icons,” at least 19 unique icon sets with up to 236 icons per set, bitmap and scalable vector formats. Gorgeous icons here in quite a variety of styles. Both sites owned by the same people. [Iconfactory Iconfactory, StockIcons.] - IconGalore: Web Icons
XP style icons. Wide variety and packages. Custom icon designs available, too. [Icons by icongalore.com.] - Iconshock
Absolutely beautiful professional icons, Web icons, application icons. Wide range of styles, custom icon designs available, too. Web site icons compatible with Dreamweaver and other development environments. They also offer Vector format icons, resizable without loss of quality. “452,330 quality icons in 168 icon collections... and counting. Iconshock, the world icon design leader offers Royalty Free web icons with different styles ideal for you to integrate in your web applications, software, catalogs, games, printing media and much more. Sizes from 16px to 256px.” [Icons by Iconshock.] - IconShoppe
Beautiful, high quality, and reasonably-priced royalty-free stock icon sets for Web sites, by Dan Cederholm, Simplebits. “Hand-crafted, royalty-free stock icons for the Web.” Small but growing collection here. Highly recommended for Web sites. [Icons by Dan Cederholm, SimpleBits.] - iStockphoto Lightbox: Vector Icons, Web Site Icons
Lightbox by WebsiteTips.com's editor of the best, high quality, and favorite vector icons, website icons, and website icon design elements via iStockphoto. [Lightbox collection by Shirley Kaiser, SKDesigns, via iStockphoto.] - iStockphoto: Vector Icons
Over 13,000 beautifully created vector icons in an endless range of styles and colors - individual icons and icon sets. Use with vector graphics software such as Adobe Illustrator. Great for Web icons and other uses, too. For more on Adobe Illustrator, see WebsiteTips.com's Adobe Illustrator section.
[Part of istockphoto.com.] - iStockphoto: Web Icons
Hundreds of icon sets available via iStockphoto. Inexpensive, great quality. Range of formats available, too, including vector (Adobe Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDRAW), bitmap, .psd (Adobe Photoshop), and more. [Part of istockphoto.com.] - Techlogica
Beautifully done, high quality icon packs for software, websites. Icon pack categories: 16x16 Icons, 32x32 Icons, Assorted Icons, Button Icons, Document Icons, Free Icons, Multimedia Icons, Toolbar Icons, Soft Icons, Vista Icons, Web Icons. Formats: ICO(32bit, 8bit), PNG, GIF, BMP, BMP Magenta Mask. From their site: “Techlogica offers many high-quality icon packs that are great for improving the overall appearance of your software or website. Our professional icon sets are affordable, easy to integrate into your product, and can be downloaded instantly after purchase.” [Icons by Techlogica.] - Ultimate Symbol
Web site offering commercial probably thousands of high quality symbols in a variety of formats, including EPS, font formats for Mac, PC, and also bundled as CD+book with their Design Elements series, Official Signs and Icons, Nature Icons. Available as individual image downloads, bundles, via CD, more. Also has flags of the world, a pictorial symbols bundle, Seymour Chwast Illustration Collection, and more. LOTS here. Business devoted to providing symbols, including official, international symbols. [Web site: Ultimate Symbol.] - Yellow Icon Design
Yellow Icon Design has exceptional quality, gorgeous stock icons and icon collections at their site. Unique styles for Web site icons, blog icons, and other projects. They also do custom icon design. [Icons by Yellow Icon Design.]
See also within WebsiteTips.com's Web Resources:
- Fonts section where you'll find links to many beautifully created free and commercial pictographic and image fonts, and dingbat fonts.
- Fonts Pixel Fonts for dingbat fonts, dingbat pixel fonts especially designed for websites that can work well for icons.
Other Web Site Icons Link Resources
- 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
Another set of annotated links with samples via Smashing Magazine. Windows icons, Mac icons, Web site icons, blog icons. Nice collection here of high quality commercial and free icons. [Article/tutorial dated 03/06/2008, by Sven Lennartz, Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine.] - Free! Icons for your website or application
Listing of resources for web site icons with a chart that shows the licensing - royalty-free, Creative Commons, General Public License (GPL), free, etc. Helpful at-a-glance chart also includes links to screenshots of each icon set and links to the respective sites. [Article/tutorial updated 01/26/2008, by maxpower.] - Free Quality Icons for your Website or Application
Well done annotated listing of free quality icons here, most with graphic samples, too. [Article/tutorial dated 12/07/2007, by PickBee.] - Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates
General icon sets, icon sets for design artists, icon sets for bloggers, and more. [Article/tutorial dated 05/24/2007, by Sven Lennartz, Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine.] - Icons for Webdesigners
Good listing of links here to sites with icons. No descriptions or samples shown but the links are rated by popularity. [Listing part of For Webdesigners.] - Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs
Quite a few links here, most or all of which include graphic samples and descriptions. Great place to look for website icons, blog icons, or icons for your Windows PC or Mac. Air mail icons, camera icons, file icons, angular vector icons, icons for Windows XP, Vista, iLeopard, Safari icons, Camino icons, Firefox icons, hardware icons, square compass icons, Skype, iPod Nano, Apple, email icons, orbs, RSS icons, project folders icons, social icons (Digg, WordPress, delicious, Facebook, more), Web 2.0 vector icons, pixelicious icons, vector musical instruments, clouds, stars, and more. [Article/tutorial dated 11/29/2007, by Sven Lennartz, Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine.] - Top 40 Free Icon Resources for Web Designers (Updated) - Speckyboy
This annotated listing also includes graphics samples, and the author has ranked each of the sites in the Top 40 list as well. [Article/tutorial dated 03/04/2008, by Speckyboy.] - WebCom Guide - Publishing on the Web - Icon Index
Listing of sites that offer icons, have listings of icon resources, and more. [Part of: webcom.com.] - Yahoo! Arts: Design Arts: Graphic Design: Web Page Design & Layout: Graphics:
Animated gifs, backgrounds, clipart, icons, transparent images, large listings. [Part of: Yahoo! Directory.]
