When we are designing a website, or even a web application, we always need some pretty icons in order to complete the design. There are over hundred thousands of icons available on the internet. However, how many of them are nicely designed and suitable to you? I am sure you will find “The Best Free Web Icons for Different Purposes” useful to you.
We have selected the following top quality web icons, e.g Blogging Icons, Application Icons, Social Media Icons, Emotion Icons, Browser Icons, Mini Icons, Weather Icons, Flag Icons and Mobile Icons, which can be used for different purposes. Come back here if you ever designing a website again, I am sure you can find the web icons you need here.
You can use these icons on your blog. Cute Blogging Icon Set inclides Design, Download, Freelance, Part-time, Hire Me, Not Available, About Me, Services, My Blog, Contact.
There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs including Author, Article, BlogRoll, Comment, Email, RSS, Theme icon and etc… It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format.
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Web Icon Set offers professional and quality icon sets to web developers like us. They have just released their first icon set, Web Application Icon Set for free. You can use these icons on any desktop and web applications.
Application Icon Set inclides Register, Settings, Users, Database, Login, Chat, Add, Delete, Edit, invoice. They are in PNG format with 128, 64, 48, 32px sizes. Web Icon Set regularly adding more great web icons, so please stay tuned.
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Demo: http://www.webiconset.com/
License: License Free
We have introduced some Free iPhone Icons for developers a week ago. They are designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps. You can find them in AI and PSD formats.
Now we have some Free Android Icons for developers. The package includes 30 PNG menu icons plus the additional source files for further customization. All icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Feel free to use them in any form in your projects or even remix them.
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Demo: http://www.androidicons.com/
License: Creative Commons License
Glyphish provides 130 great icons for iPhone applications. They are designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, they are also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more.
iPhone UI icons are 24-bit PNG images used as a mask to generate selected and unselected button states. Dimensions should be about 30×30 pixels for tab bar icons and about 20×20 pixels for toolbar and navigation icons. You can find Glyphish icons in AI and PSD formats. So that you can easily resize and customize them.
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Demo: http://glyphish.com/
License: Creative Commons License
Since icons are such a huge element in modern day web design, WooThemes has partnered with Liam McKay, and brought you a fantastic new web icon set.
The WooFunction Icon Set includes 178 amazing web-related icons in a sophisticated and glossy design style. All 178 icons are available as 32×32 pixel PNG files and they are indeed pixel-perfect. If you have an in-depth look at the individual icons, you’ll notice that Liam has spent a lot of time paying attention to the finer details.
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Demo: http://www.woothemes.com/2009/09/woofunction-178…
License: GPL License
Blog Perfume has released a set of Free Social Media Icons some time ago. Yesterday, they have just added another 10 social media icons to the pack.
New Circular Social Media Icons includes AIM, Bebo, eBay, Hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Ning, Orkut and Yahoo Messenger. They includes 3 sizes for 17 icons: 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32. There is also an icon template PSD file included! What kind of age are we living in when you cannot find a good set of simple, sleek, circular social media icons? So here they are.
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Demo: http://www.blogperfume.com/new-27-circular-social-media-icons…
License: Creative Commons License
Komodo Media has developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. The Social Network Icon Pack consists of 40+ 16 pixel x 16 pixel icons and 40+ 32 pixel by 32 pixel icons all in 32-bit PNG format. Social Network Icon Pack is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
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Demo: http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/social…
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License
Thank you for all of the participants of “Giving Away 10 Sets of 275 Premium App Icons” contest. It is really amazed that we have over 500 comments (including “random comment”, “simply leaving a comment”, “yet another random comment” and “latest random comment”). We have successful drawn the following 10 winners. Function will send you the Premium Icon Pack very soon.
1. Matt
2. Jason
3. Mr T
4. Matt @ DVQ
5. Oskar Krawczyk
6. Jakob Buis
7. Leo
8. thrstn
9. Antoine Olbrechts
10. Ben
WebAppers will continue giving away some really nice web development tools and resources to our readers. Please feel free to suggest what you would like for the next Giveaway under this post. Thank you.
We would like to celebrate the success of WebAppers over the past two years. Without your support, WebAppers cannot survive. We would like to say Big Thank You to all of our readers.
And also, we have contacted Function, and asked if they can give away few copies of their New Beautiful Premium App Icons ($20 /pack). They are very kind, and happy to give away 10 sets of 275 New Premium App Icons to WebAppers readers for Free!
How to Participate
In order to have a chance to get those amazing icons, you can simply leave a comment under this post. And then, we will randomly draw 10 winners on 1st June 2009.
Free Social Media Icons for Everyone
Few days ago, Function has also released a set of Free Social Media Icon Pack for everyone as well. All of them look shiny and beautiful. You can download them directly now. I am sure you will find them useful for your blog or web application.
Project Icon Set contains 18 beautiful icons related to project management. The set includes the icons address card, bar graph, calendar, clock / time, conference device, contact, documents, draft, mail, marker, milestone, notes, portfolio, project plan / gant chart, search / find, sitemap / flowchart, todo and user / resource.
The files are transparent PNGs, and vector Fireworks source files are included as well. As always, the set is completely free and may be used for any private or commercial project without any restrictions whatsoever.
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Demo: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/27/project-icon…
License: License Free
