Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Map Icons Designer is a set of 200 Map icons in PSD Vector Shape & PNG format. They can be used as Google Map Icons, Location Markers, Point of Interests (POI) on any Maps. It includes icons for tourism, sports, restaurants, hotels, transportation and etc. It’s sutiable to use them in Google Maps API.

There are 10 different type of location pins. They can be resized and can easily change colors. You can use the royalty-free map icons for any personal, commercial project including web design, software, application, advertising, film, video, computer game, gui design, illustration, for you or for your clients, without having to pay additional licensing fees.

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Demo: http://www.webiconset.com/map-icons/
License: License Free

Simplicity Vector Icon Set is designed to create a simple looking set that can fit into every project. With this set, we hope your project will be given a clean and prominent feel. They can be scaled to any custom sizes while the quality is still intact.

Web Icon Set has released a set of Free Simplicity Vector Icons. There are total 50 vector icons in 16-512px size. They come in PNG and PSD format. Simply Click the Download button and enter $0, and then you will get them for free if you want. They are free for personal and commercial projects. They are suitable for websites and web applications.

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Demo: http://www.webiconset.com/simplicity-vector-icon-set/
License: License Free

For a commercial site, and with the proliferation of online payment services, you may need to have buttons showing the logos of Online Payment Service Providers. Here is a set of 75 Free Buttons For Online Payment Service Providers that you can place on your website or online business on your forms of payment.

These icons are available in PNG format in two sizes (99×66 and 64×43). You will also find generic icons payment methods. A blank PSD is also included in the ZIP file. This resource file is free for personal and commercial use. You are allowed to use it in your projects, change it and adapt for your purposes.

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Demo: http://pepsized.com/75-free-buttons-for-online-payment…
License: License Free

MFG Labs Icon Set is designed to be easily embeddable on a website or application using a webfont and css. It was inspired by the excellent work of Dave Gandy’s font awesome project and the Octicons font made by the github team.

Fonts are made with vectors, so they are scalable and correctly render on retina screens or mobile displays. They use Private Use Area Unicode to avoid conflicts with existing characters. They also bind icon with existing unicode that represent the same symbol allowing fallback in case of loading typography problem.

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Download Link: http://mfglabs.github.com/mfglabs-iconset/
License: Creative Commons, MIT License

Smashing Magazine has released the Polaris UI Pack, which is a set of beautiful UI components. It includes Edit Boxes, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Page Navigation, Menu, Buttons, etc. You can use this set in any of your projects, and even learn with it, by examining each component to see how it is put together.

Components are made in Adobe Photoshop using Shape Layers (vector elements). Therefore, you can increase or decrease the size of each element without any loss of image quality. In addition, the set contains 48 fully scalable vector icons with outline styles.

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Download Link: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2013/02/02/freebie…
License: License Free

Socialtograms is a collection of social vector icons/pictograms free for you to download. There are 112 individual brands and logos in AI format. It includes Twitter, Facebook, Dribbble, Google, Instagram, Pinterest, Flickr, Tumblr, PayPal, Steam, HTML5, CSS3, Apple, Skype, Dropbox and etc…

You can check out the icons preview here, and you can download the icons here.

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Download Link: http://dribbble.com/shots/922852-Socialtograms
License: License Free

Nowadays, there are lots of people using iPhone. And there are many app developers are looking for design resources for showcasing their apps. Using gesture icons for iphone app presentation is a great idea that can save a lot of your effort.

This set of iPhone Gesture Icons contain 12 iphone gesture icons in .AI format. Best of all, it is free to use. You can use them for presentations, sketches, storyboards etc. You can download the icons from the attachment file.

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Download Link: http://dribbble.com/shots/915713-Gestures
License: License Free

Elusive Icons is a webfont that can be used with any of your projects. There are 270 Sleek vector icons for bootstrap. Bootstrap-based, Foundation-based or even your custom projects. It was created by the need for an Open-Source font that can be used in your projects without licencing issues and/or other “attribution” claws.

If you don’t care much about licences there are many alternatives you can use, most notably the font-awesome font. When downloading this font you’ll also receive all the icons in .svg vector format so you can play with them, improve them and contribute them back on github.

Requirements: Bootstrap
Demo: http://aristath.github.com/elusive-iconfont/
License: See License Agreement

Gemicon is handcrafted icon set by Turqois, which there 3 different sizes (16, 32, 64). Each icon created with pixel-perfect shape layer on Photoshop. Download and get PNGs and PSDs file. There are over 600 icons for you to download. They are all Free and suitable to implement here and there for your next awesome project.

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Demo: http://gemicon.net/
License: License Free