free Icons for your (Web-) Applications

Published on July 6th, 2006 in Programming, Web

So, you’re developing the next killer app (or website). But it still doesn’t quite look like one. What can you do? Well, an important part of the visual presentation are definitely icons. Beautiful, understandable icons also improve the usability of your product, because people can more easily associate a button or a menu item with the function it provides.

Of course you can use standard icons by Microsoft or Sun found in thousands of other products. Or you can use the following quality icons listed below. They will surely enhance your application’s visuals. There are numerous services out there which will create custom icons for your application for a fee, but I decided to concentrate on the free ones for now as the sets below contain a decent amount of high quality icons and surely suffice for smaller, low-budget projects.

Tango Icons
Nuvola Icon Set
Silk Icon Set
Mini Icon Set
Gnome Icons*
KDE Icons*
Icons by Jakub ‘jimmac’ Steiner

The sets for Gnome and KDE were of course primarly designed with those window managers in mind, but since they’re normally released under an open-source license you may well find an icon that suits your needs and use it without any legal issues.

3 comments

Ben May July 7th, 2006

Great Collection, thanks

Dendy May 26th, 2007

nice icons, thanks

free icons March 14th, 2008

Nice icons, More free icons you can found here:

http://www.freeiconsdownload.com

Regards