35 Excellent Quality Free Icon Sets

Posted by: Binish Mathew Posted date: July 23, 2010 In: Featured, Freebies | comment : 2

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In today’s world of representing everything in pictures, how can you design a website without using icons? In fact, icons are now an unavoidable part of web design, where creatively designed icons and make a website much more beautiful and easy to navigate.

Who don’t love using icons in their website? Particulary when there are loads of incredible icons sets available for free to download and use? Of course, most of them comes with restricitions, but unless you don’t modify them most of them are free to download and use.

Designers are creating absolutely amazing icon sets and are offering them for download for free. There are indeed some high quality icons sets available for free download and in this post you can find some of them.

Icons for Web Design & Software I
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Icons for Web Design & Software II
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Eloquence! Icon Set This pack includes seventy-five 32 x 32 pixel icons in PNG format that you can use for personal and professional projects. See the download file for more information regarding licensing. Below is an example of the icons included in this pack.
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High Quality 3D Icons This pack includes 20 high quality 3D icons available in PNG format in several sizes including 512px, 256px, 128px, and 64px. These icons were created by La Glanz Studio and are royalty-free, so you can use them for any commercial or personal project
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50 Free High Quality Icons These 50 icons are released under Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 and can be used commercially – just don’t redistribute them without written permission.
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Webset Icon SetA special icon set to give away absolutely, completely one hundred percent free!
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Social Buzz Icon PackThe Social Buzz Icon Pack contains 12 icons for some of the most popular social networks out there. Each icon has been masterfully crafted by the folks over at IconShock.com.
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Application Icon SetContains 10 high quality application icons in PNG format
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Cute Blogging Icon SetContains 10 high quality blogging icons in PNG format
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Mobile Icon SetContains 10 high quality mobile icons in PNG format
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NIXUS Icon Pack: 60 Beautiful Premium IconsNIXUS proves to be compatible in both corporate and creative situations.
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Vibrant Stickers Web Icon PackThis icon pack contains 15 colorful .png icons, each 256×256px. The icons were designed by Aaron Ovadia of Photoshop Candy exclusively for Tutorial9.
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Social Buzz Icon PackThe Social Buzz Icon Pack contains 12 icons for some of the most popular social networks out there. Each icon has been masterfully crafted by the folks over at IconShock.com.
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27 Free Wooden Badges – Social Icon PackInside this Icon Pack are 27 Free Wooden Social Icons, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.
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Free Vector Icon Set 2 – Turqua – 3D Isometric IconsCompletely scalable vectors, so you can edit, change and use for printing or web purpose
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Developers Icons 105 icons (32×32) for your toolbar or anything
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Playground Icon Set
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Sushi Icon Set
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Twitter button iconsA smooth set of twitter icons with a pin-button like style to give a new and authentic look to your website or blog
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Black twitter iconsAre you tired of twitter blue?, the blue icon just doesn’t match with your website? or you’re just looking for that “je ne sais pas quoi” to make your website or blog a work of art? here’s what you need.. black twitter icons! and please just enjoy!
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Coquette Part 8The “Coquette part 8″ icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in the following sizes: 16x16px, 24x24px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px in 32-bit transparency PNG file format. The icons also come in ICO and ICNS file formats in 128x128px size.
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Blue Extended IconsThe “Blue Extended” free icon set is packed with 238 high quality free icons in the following sizes:16x16px, 24x24px, 32x32px, 64x64px and 128x128px in 32-bit transparency PNG file format. The icons also come in ICO and ICNS file formats in 128x128px size
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ISLOO Icon SetThe freebie consist of 50 beautiful icons. The icons are all colorful and detailed and can by used in any commercial project – just don’t redistribute without written permission.
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Hamburg – Web Design IconsYet the number of colours used is not endless, colours are not too bright, they are not Vista-ish in no way. “Hamburg” would look good on a personal blog and an online bank as well.
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Munich – Web Design IconsAll icons are oriented towards practical use and commerce. Some are general (ex., comment, user, edit), some specific (ex. freelance, donate, basket).
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Socialize Part 3 IconsThe “Socialize part 3″ icon set contains 12 high quality, free icons in the following sizes: 16x16px, 24x24px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px in 32-bit transparency PNG file format. The icons also come in ICO and ICNS file formats in 128x128px size.
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Colorful Stickers Part 6 IconsThe icons are available in these sizes: 16x16px, 24x24px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px, 128x128px and 256x256px in 32-bit transparency PNG file format. The icons also come in ICO and ICNS file formats in 128x128px size.
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3D Social Media Icon Pack | 20 Icon SetInside this Icon Pack are Twenty 3D Social Media Icons, created exclusively for the viewers of Tutorial9 by Dawghouse Design Studio.
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Worn-Out Soda Cans Social Media Icon PackThe icon pack once again features icons of our favorite social media sites in 200×200, transparent PNG formats.
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108 Go Green! Web Icon SetThe set comes with eCommerce icons, social media, computer accessories, multimedia and a hell of a lot more! These icons are available in 64 x 64 px and in transparent PNG formats for which you can easily change the hues to match your needs.
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Woven Fabric Social Media Icon SetThis icon set contains 26 icons of your favorite social media sites such as Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, Twitter, Facebook and several more! These would be perfect for websites that uses textures or a grungy theme. Enjoy!
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Vector Social Media IconsThe icons are designed in 32px and 16px vector format. With the vector format, you can scale the icon to any size to fit with your design or use it in high quality print materials. What you will get from the zip package: 16px, 24px, 32px in PNG format and a vector EPS file.
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Marker-Style IconsThis icon set is originally inspired by the iPhone’s Notes.app and designed for Notepad (WordPress theme). It is designed in simple marker stroke and they can be applied on any color. You can use them in sketchy or modern design as seen on the iPhone and iPad apps. The download zip includes 20 icons in bitmap PNG (16, 24, 32, and 64px) and vector EPS format.
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20 Free Shiny IconsThis free icon set includes 20 icons that you can use for both personal and commercial projects. Resell and distribution is not allowed. The icons are available in 3 different sizes: 16px, 32px, and 64px in transparent PNG format.
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Sketchy Icons This are black icons, designed for white and light backgrounds.
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