The Best Icon Sets for Portfolio Sites

By Steven Snell | Published May 25th, 2010 in Resources

Icons are an important part of web design. While there are a lot of quality free icon sets out there, finding the right ones for your portfolio site can be a challenge. In this post we’ll feature the best sets that include icons suitable for portfolio sites. As always when you’re dealing with freebies, be sure to check the license details before using.

Portfolio Icons

Portfolio Icons

This is Art

This is Art

Web Design Icons

Web Design Icons

Project Icon Set

Project Icon Set

Briefcase Icon

Briefcase Icon

Icons for Designers

Icons for Designers

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Practika

Practika

Addictive Flavour

Addictive Flavour

Social Media Icons:

Many designers include links to their social networking profiles on their portfolio site. The icon sets shown here are ideal for getting more interaction with the visitors to your portfolio.

Social Media Icons

Social Media Icons

MediaLoot Social Media Icons

MediaLoot Social Media Icons

Social Moleskin Icons

Social Moleskin Icons

Vector Social Media Icons

Vector Social Media Icons

Pixel Perfect Social Media Icons

Pixel Perfect Social Media Icons

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8 Comments
  1. keshavsing on May 25th, 2010

    Awesome collection of icons…would like to use some of them…

  2. Laira on May 25th, 2010

    Some really sweet icon sets here. Thanks for sharing such a big list.. Briefcase Icon is awesome…

  3. Scott Corgan on May 25th, 2010

    Oooo, niiiice. This is some quality work. No I can have one bookmark instead of an entire folder of multiple sites!

  4. juan iconshock on May 25th, 2010

    Wow, most of these sets were designed by us :) thanks for publishing !!!!! I think our latest freebie could be interesting too, more than 50 vector twitter icons with great quality: http://su.pr/16VDOJ

    and of course our free icon sets:
    http://www.iconshock.com/icon_sets/

    thanks see you

  5. Good Web Design on June 13th, 2010

    Great collection! Would be keen to see them around on some great portfolio sites…

  6. Pixelbox Design on July 12th, 2010

    Awesome collection, Added to favs, keep up the good work.

  7. Urviho on July 26th, 2010

    Nice collection, thanks for the links :)

  8. vuitton on August 8th, 2010

    nice thanks for the links :)