The Most Usable Web Icons Available…and FREE
Unless you’re an uber-icon designer, you probably find yourself searching the web for pretty icons for your templates. The only problem is that the web is littered with icons that no developer could ever use – like Pixar characters. They’re adorable, but utterly useless. Consequently, I’ve compiled a list of the ten (well actually nine) most usable web icons. Did I mention that they’re absolutely free?!
Okay, that last one is hardly usable. Actually, if you submit a theme to us using that set of icons, I can promise you that it will be rejected. 
But, it’s still fun. I grew up playing those games.
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Jeffrey
Hi, I'm Jeff. I'm the editor of Nettuts+, and the Site Manager of Theme Forest. I spend too much time in front of the computer and find myself telling my fiance', "We'll go in 5 minutes!" far too often. I just can't go out to dinner while I'm still producing FireBug errors...drives me crazy. I love jQuery, PHP, MYSQL, CSS, AJAX - pretty much anything.
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Thanks for putting this together. Its definitely hard to find useable icons for web apps and templates, this is a great resource.
Pinvoke and Silk Icons are very nice and useful for applications too.
Very useful!
Thanks for these useful resources! Now I have even more bookmarks to add to my web-design folder
I particularly love the Blogger notepad icon. This one will come in very handy for a personal project. It would be great to see more retro Nintendo icons though – I’m designing a theme for my son who is a total fan
“Okay, that last one is hardly usable. Actually, if you submit a theme to us using that set of icons, I can promise you that it will be rejected”
@ Jeffrey- ROFL!
Many thanks for another GREAT bunch of resources, and a much needed laugh
Chris
But, what if it’s a very well designed game theme?
Lol
Thanks Jeffrey
You might want to look into this site you are linking to. They are breaking the rules of some of these icon designers. For example, that very first set comes with a readme with the original URL in it. It says on the page explicitly that they are not to be downloaded anywhere else and if you use them you must include a link to their page.
I’m just afraid “freeiconsweb.com” isn’t paying attention to any license information and these should not be used in our templates.
Also, the 5th set’s download link is broken, and the sixth one has a readme saying its not allowed for use in commercial work. I didn’t check the others, just thought I’d leave a quick note to be wary and check the licenses before you put them all over your templates.
Thanks for sharing. Like it so much!
Very useful stuffs…Thanks for sharing I will use this on my next themforest templates…
Speak for yourselves, that last icon set is my favourite
Great icons, im loving the 3 dimensional style that is now becoming popular. still.. cant beat making your own though! good post
You forgot the Crystal Clear Icon set:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystalclear
A great icon set
Sorry this is the correct URL for the crystal clear set:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Crystal_clear
Emmett
http://www.filmandgamecomposers.com
ClarkLab, You’re right.
Here’s the correct URL for the icon by Function (an author here on Themeforest…) : http://wefunction.com/2008/07/function-free-icon-set/
The first set includes the icon for Iconfactory’s Twitterific ( http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/ ) which is not a free-to-use icon.
Hey Jeffrey, thanks for featuring some of the icons sets found on our site. The Zelda set is definitely one of my favorites too.
JK
http://iconzworld.com
Thanks for the excellent resource – downloading and saving several now.
Thanks for all
Thanks for this compilation, but are you sure that i can to use this icons, whithout problem, to make a new template and after to sell it on themeforest or other website ?
Very useful icons!
Thank you for this good collection.
I’ve got a further suggestion. Maybe you can add this icon set to your collection. I think they are quite useful, too.
I’m talking about the famfamfam icon set (http://www.famfamfam.com/).
A very extensive pack with a lot of simple but nice icons.
By the way: merry christmas to everybody
I have a bit of a fetish for glossy Icons, Adding these to my collection, Thanks!
thanks for this. cool collection!
I came here from NETTUTS, and I’m a member anyway – just happend to press the FREEBIES link.
These are awesome, so much so that I might even use a few of these – I really wish I could do icons like the pros, but unless I do them super simple they look rally bad!
Thanks again, awesome post.
thanks man!
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Thanks blog.themeforest
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