There are lots of free icons offered by lots of designers out there, but icon sets listed below are my favorites at the moment. These icon sets are suitable for blogs or other web related projects and resemble Web 2.0 or new social network design trends. They normally share the same characteristics i.e. 3D, glossy, and bright colors.
1. Leaves Fall: A Social Icon Set from Smashing Magazine
Smashing Magazine has establish itself as a reputable and popular resources for today’s social media in short period of times. To date, they have tonnes of high quality design resources and references ranging from icon sets, wallpapers, web design, Wordpress themes etc. to help you build a good blog or website. The Leaves Fall icon set is just another example of it’s quality offerings. They normally worked with designers who want to promote their work at Smashing Magazine and most of their featured icon sets are free.
2. Simplicio Icons Set from Smashing Magazine
Another featured icon set from Smashing Magazine. I like this icons because of it’s simplicity.
3. Milky Icon Set from IconEden
There are more than 131 icons included in Milky Icon set, enough to liven up your blog with it’s colorful and simple design. According to the designer, these icons look prominent and eye-pleasing on either dark or bright background. You judge!
4. Coquette Icons from DryIcons
“This free icons flirt with style”, claimed it’s designer… which is agreeable. Like other new icon set, it contains icons for social networking elements like people, conversation balloon, clock, charts et al. It looks compact and neat, colorful with shadow effect, and yet still maintaining the professional looks and feel.
5. Web Application Icons Set from WebAppers
This icon set has the common icons that you need for most web applications design. It has Add, Delete, Next, Previous, Save, Download, Upload, Chart and other useful buttons to impress your web application users.
6. Glossy Blogging Icons Set from BlogPerfume
Designed specially for blogs, this icon set is useful for bloggers to represent common blog posts or page elements like Comments, Archive, BlogRoll, RSS, Plugins et al.
7. Flag Icons Set from IconDrawer
This is a must have icons if your blog or website support mulitple languages. There are 243 flags included that represent countries and unions around the world.
8. Pro Toolbar Icons Set from Kombine
This icons set is for Apple Mac OS X fans because it emulates the look and feel of the OS. The free download has 45 icons that is good enough to set your blog alive!
9. RSS Feed Icons Set from nyssajbrown
I think most of the blogs out there must have RSS feed for their blogs to keep in touch with their visitors. Instead of having a boring RSS icons, you can use this icons from nyssajbrown to attract your blog visitors to click and subscribe to your blog. Looks like a bubble gum to me.. yum..yum!
10. Mini Web Development Icons from IcoJoy
If you like everything mini, then you should drive Mini car, listen to iPod Mini, or else…use mini icon for your blog or website. IcoJoy has a set of nice mini icons that is ready for any web application development or blogs.
I know that you have favorite icons set of your own. Please share with me and other readers by leaving a comment. Enjoy!
