35 of the Best Icon Sets for Web Designers

By Steven Snell | Published December 28th, 2009 in Resources

Having the right icons can help to make a web design look much more professional and complete. Fortunately, there are some excellent free icon sets available that offer very high quality icons. In this post we’ll feature 35 sets that every web designer should be aware of. Keep these icon sets handy and they will meet your needs for most projects.

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Flavour Extended

Flavour Extended

Quartz

Quartz

Siena

Siena

Function Free Icon Set

Function Free Icon Set

Project Icons

Standard Iconset

Project Icons

Stationery

Stationery

Fresh

Fresh

Practika

Practika

On Stage

On Stage

Milky

Milky

Web Application Icon Set

Web Application Icon Set

Light Icons

Light Icons

Bright!

Bright!

Monofactor Vector Icons

Monofactor Vector Icons

Shopping Cart Icon

Shopping Cart Icon

E-Commerce Icons

E-Commerce Icons

E-Commerce Icons

E-Commerce Icons

Money Icons

Money Icons

Chalkwork Payments

Chalkwork Payments

Basic Icons

Basic Icons

WooFunction

WooFunction

Icons for Designers

Icons for Designers

Portfolio Icons

Portfolio Icons

MinIcons

MinIcons

Brand Spanking New Mini Icons

Brand Spanking New Mini Icons

Farm-Fresh Web Icons

Farm-Fresh Web Icons

Led Icon Set

Led Icon Set

Web Development Icons

Web Development Icons

Developers Icons

Developers Icons

Sketched Up

Sketched Up

WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set

WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set

FamFamFam Mini Icons

FamFamFam Mini Icons

32px Mania

32px Mania

Moleskine Icon

Moleskine Icon

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33 Comments
  1. Phillipe Calmet on December 28th, 2009

    Great and useful list of icons.
    Thanks for sharing :D

    Regards.

  2. Gareth Poole on December 29th, 2009

    awesome stuff, thanks.

  3. Gordon on December 29th, 2009

    Great list, with a few I haven’t seen before – thanks! :)

  4. Vectorss on December 29th, 2009

    Great list very nice resources. Thanks

  5. Steve Martin on December 29th, 2009

    A great collection of icons here.. It is nice to see some new original styles of icons… Thanks for sharing all these this resource together for us…

  6. Samoo on December 29th, 2009

    Splendid round-up!
    May I add this set I’ve made? http://web-patterns.net/icons/fruttabuona-a-free-icons-set-made-in-web-patterns
    Not for web designers only, but hope you enjoy it as well.

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  9. Mark on December 29th, 2009

    Downloading the Siena set seems to be impossible now, the required password is no longer published.

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  11. heriyanto binduni on December 29th, 2009

    nice list. really helpful. tq ^^

  12. Soni Nirbhay on December 30th, 2009

    ah haahhh! here’s some gr8 collections of new and old icon sets. Thank You, 4 sharing such collection :)

  13. Andreas on December 30th, 2009

    Great list of icon sets. They come in handy! ;)

  14. wander lima on December 30th, 2009

    its nice selection

  15. Steven Snell on December 30th, 2009

    Mark,
    Sorry about that. I downloaded Siena when it was released and it’s a very good set.

    Thanks for your comments everyone.

  16. izdelava spletnih strani on January 3rd, 2010

    Bookmarked! Very usefull, thanx

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  19. IndoDX on January 5th, 2010

    Siena and Flavour Extended realy cute

  20. denbagus on January 6th, 2010

    wow…complete icon for designer..thank you

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  24. Egypt Web Design on January 14th, 2010

    A great collection of icons

  25. vectorilla on February 10th, 2010

    Very nice icon collection thanks

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  27. juan iconshock on February 22nd, 2010

    @designam great collection, I see some works designed by our team, thanks for sharing !!!!

  28. zur4ik on February 24th, 2010

    very good iconset :)

  29. Vincent on June 7th, 2010

    Nice collection !
    By the way, I just released today a free vector icon library, 290 icons for wireframing and designing application interfaces : http://bit.ly/aycipN

  30. Urviho on July 30th, 2010

    Nice collection :) Thanks

  31. vuitton on August 15th, 2010

    Excellent article ! Thanks a lot.