13 Free & Fresh Icon Sets

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Professional icon sets comes in handy for a wide range of applications, web projects and printable documents. When it comes to making a project appealing, many designers and artists use attractive icons and visuals to give additional flourish to it. Icons when used moderately on a blog or website draw user’s attention to major aspects of an article (or specific site sections) to convey message in an effective way. This is exactly why web designers are constantly on a look out for new icon sets.

Let’s have a look at fresh and beautiful 11 icon sets as well as further references to icon libraries. Some of the sets can only be used for private projects, whereas few can be used for commercial projects. In both cases, please make sure to read the license agreement carefully, as it may change frequently.

1. Flag Button Development Kit
It’s a Photoshop file with placeholders. For a new button, just replicate a layer group and paste the new flag into the respective layer. It’s as simple as that.

2. OpenPhone Pack
Licensed under the GNU Public License. It contains high quality icons in ICO and PNG formats.

3. Iconshock’s Icon Sets
These sets include some really useful icons like Disk Jockey, Elm Nightmare Street , NBA Web, Red Hot Chili, Consoles Vista icons and a lot more.

4. Icon Pack in Adobe CS 3
High quality icons in PNG format.

5. Standard PC keyboard key Icons
These icons are particularly useful for video training projects.

6. Icon Bee
Get gorgeous free icons. RSS feed also available.

7. Vistaicons.com
It is a collection of over 2,000 high quality free Vista Style icons in ICO and PNG formats.

8. Interface Lift Icons
Literally innumerable free icon sets available for download for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

9. PixelGirl Icon Sets
Very useful icon sets for Mac OS X along with numerous other icons sets for Windows XP.

10. Yoritsuki Icons – Japan
A set of very detailed and unique icons associated with the hot springs of Japan, very familiar to Japanese people. Available in 128×128-px and PNG & ICO formats.

11. Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
These incredible sets of free doodle icons include SM (social media) graphics for sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Technorati, and Design Float. The set also has numerous graphics tailor-made for bloggers and very commonly used icons such as Contact, RSS, Home, Comments and WordPress.

12. A Pack of 3D Cartoon Icons
A huge pack of numerous icons that can be used on your desktop and dock. Inspired by Rokey’s collection of smooth metal pack, the icons are remarkable collection of sleek icons.

13. Beautiful Black and Blue Icon Set
This beautiful icon set contains 27 of the most useful icons. The cons are available in two different formats .PNG and ICO. The set is inspired by Area o4 Icons.

About Khurram Alvi

Khurram Alvi is a person full of ideas and insights, who does not fear to try new things. He is a multi-talented professional having more than 7 years of experience in web design, development, multimedia authoring and project management. He is a computer freak, loves cars, loves nature, and loves to share his vast experience to educate the community.