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Posted by ryan | Posted on 18:23

Posted: 27 Nov 2010 02:00 AM PST

Using icons in designs is a hot trend these days. Most of the websites now a days uses icons for their logos, navigation, bookmarks or use to represent their website.

I’ll be featuring 60 high quality icons set that are free to download but be sure to read the terms of the owner’s icon.

1. Free Cupcake Icon

Cupcake icon designed by ArtDesigner for sweet tooth websites. It is available in variety of sizes.

Moleskine Icon is a beautifully crafted design with pixel perfection by Michael Stezycki. The icon comes in 7 different sizes ranging from 16×16 all the way up to 512×512. The download also includes a wide variety of file formats to meet all your needs.

3. Paradise Cherry Icon

Cute sweet cherry icon. It is available in sizes between 64×64 px and 512×512 px.

4. Ktax K-7 Icon

Two highly detailed replacement icons for Apple's Quicktime player. Though drastically different from traditional quicktime icons, it blends in nicely with the rest of your dock or desktop.

5. Starflash Brownie

Kodak's instant camera Starflash Brownie icon based. It is available 512×512px .png, .icns and .ico. Free for private and commercial projects.

6. Fjernsyn

Set of cool icons from young Danish designer Rasmus Nielsen, is a nice option.

7. USB Prober

USB Prober application for Mac icon based. Available in 512×512px.

8. Leica M7

6 Leica set icons in the resolutions 512×512px. Available as .PNG, .ICNS and .iContainter.

9. Apple Icons

Mac logo like icons. It contains 8 icons of different colored apples all in the rsrc format for use with Mac OS.

10. Iconlicious

A cute milk carton icon from Iconlicious.

11. Latte: 48px Icon Set

Latte' contains 25 different icons in the resolutions 48×48px.

12. Notes and Evernote

An icon pack of Notes & Evernote. Available resolutions: 512×512px.

13. IsoIcons Workspace

Workspace like icons that ar available in 128px×128px resolution.

14. Mira Works

A calm office environment inspired icons from Mira Works. It is available in three different sizes: 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px.

15. iCandies Icon Set: 60 Free Icons

iCandies Icon Set, a set with 60 high quality icons in 64×64px, 48×48px and 32×32px, available in .EPS, .AI and .PNG. The set is designed by the talented folks from IconEden on a sole purpose of giving your projects a sleek and geeky style or provide crisp, attractive icons for your modern and fashionable-looking interfaces.

16. Designer Icons – Professionally Hand-Crafted Free Icon Set

This set of icons was professionally crafted by professional icon artist, Parthiban Mohanraj. This set has all the values of stock icons.

17. Blue Vinyl Fonts

Mac OS X icons collection. Colorful vinyl records and vintage style record cases. 16 icons in all.

18. This is ART 2

A collection of 12 icons all with maximal dimensions 512×512px. Creative renditions of various application related subjects as icons. Released under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported.

19. The Graphs 2 – One graph collection to rule them all

This icon collection is ready for the future. With the power of Scalable Vector Graphics you can use these icons directly into your web pages.

20. High-res Browser Logos

High-resolution browser logos for your presentation or a blog post; these icons are available in the resolutions up to 256×256px, .PNG, each with their own official shadow treatment, and no background matte color. Presented by Paul Irish.

21. Various Smartphones Icons

This icon pack contains 14 icons for assorted smartphones, ranging from the Blackberry Storm to Motorola Droid. Maximum size available is 256×256 px.

22. Free PNG Credit Card, Debit Card and Payment Icons

Payment Icon Set, a set with 18 payment icons in PNG format, in the resolutions 32×32px — 128×128px. This set was designed by Phil Matthews.

23. Icon Pack: 256×256 Business Icons

This icon set contains 26 Business themed icons. Each icon is available in 256×256 .png format. Included in this set are User icons, Warning & Alert icons, Chat & Email icons, Maps & World Icons, and several other icons that are appropriate in business settings.

24. Upojenie

This collection includes 40 icons for iPhone and iPod Touch.

25. Construction

Construction is a free icon set with a total of 25 icons, designed uniformly with any of our current premium icon sets. As illustrated for building and construction tools and equipments, this icon set is aimed for use in your projects related to construction or infrastructure.

26. Iconfactory by David Lanham

This collection contains 42 square icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard.

27. Iconfactory Freeware by Dave Brasgalla

This collection contains 4 icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard.

28. Plush Icons Set

Plush toys icon based. This set includes 6 different cute plush icons in the resolutions 128×128px and 256×256px. Format: ICO and PNG.

29. E-Commerce Icon Set

E-Commerce Icon Set includes Products on Sale, New products, Checkout, Secure Payment, Credit Cards, Delivery, Shopping Bag, Empty Shopping Bag, Shopping Cart, Empty Shopping Cart.
Usage: Free for Personal and Commercial Projects (Size: 128, 64, 48, 32px)

30. MobileMe Icons by Prathyush

Six MobileMe icons with the resource PSD.

31. Flip Clock by Maxdicapua

This is a fully editable and scalable (except for the noise layers) and well-organized flip clock icon.

32. Boolean

Enter Boolean, a thriving city inhabited by tiny icons

33. 32px Mantra v2

Includes 36 free icons in PNG. It is available in the resolution 32×32px.

34. Solar System Icons

Solar system icons inspired. It contains the Sun, Moon, 8 planets, and 3 dwarf planets.

35. Littlear Icon Package

Unusual and funny set of icons giving life to different kinds of application, folder and file icons.

36. Compass

iPhone icon inspired by the Compass application. It is available in resolutions fit for iPhone, iPad, iPhone 4 and iTunes, from 57×57 px to 512×512 px.

37. 20 Free Marker-Style Icons

This icon set is originally inspired by the iPhone's Notes.app and designed for Notepad (WordPress theme). Icons are designed in a simple marker stroke and can be applied on any color. You can use them in sketchy or modern design as seen on the iPhone and iPad apps.

38. Social Media Icons

Set of Vector Social Media Icons with the Google Buzz, Microsoft Bing, Picasa, Meetup, Feedburner, Ebay, Drupal, Gowalla, ICQ, Metacafe, Yelp, Xing, Paypal, Podcast, and various color buttons.

39. Project Icons

A pack of 182 32×32px icons. It is available in .PNG, .ICO, .ICNS, .iContainer.

40. PixeloPhilia2

This icon set contains 44 icons for web sites and web apps by Creative Commons.

41. iPad Icon

Simple icon set of Apple's iPad.

42. Free Font Symbol Signs

This free collection includes common used symbol signs for public services such as Toilets, Telephone, First Aid, Smoking, Baby, Recycle Icon, Arrows collection and much, much more. The signs can be used for restaurant signage, hotel signage, office way-finding, airport signage and more.

43. Free Font Dingbests

The original dingbat font was designed in the sixties. This is a collection of dingbat fonts for the nineties, commissioned by FontShop. Over 700 pictograms including fax, laser printer, diskette, computer and mouse, as well as all the classic images. A special selection of them has been put together in the single font FF Dingbests.

44. 48 Free 16×16 pictograms by Miro Keller

A set of 48 tiny 16×16px pictograms to use in your projects. They are shared under a Creative Commons.

45. Weather Icons by Gavion Elliott

This is a set of 16px weather icons in PNG, JPG and PSD format.

46. 120 Free New Icons

A set of 120 simple icons, in 68×68px and 48×48px resolutions. You can either grab and freely use various elements or crop them for your resolution.

47. gCons: Free All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers (100 icons PSD)

The icons come in 12 different colors and are available in PSD, PNG, JPG and GIF formats. This set was designed by Sarfraz Shoukat.

48. Free Country Flag Icons

37 country flag icons rendered at 256×256, 128×128, 64×64, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16 pixels. Formats available are png, ico and icns. All the icons contained in this set are free for non-commercial use.

49. Flag Favicons

These world flag favicons were created from the standard 16 color palette in IconEdit32. The favicons are original work and free to download, use and modify in any way you like. Available in .ico format.

50. Icons at Artcore Skizzenblog

A set of unique, creative icons available for non-commercial use. Released under Creative Commons license.

51. Somatic Rebirth Extras 2 by David Lanham

This collection contains 16 illustrated icons with large resources for Win and Mac.

52. Desktop Icons by Greg Barnes

This desktop icon set includes Evil Dead 2, Vintage Kitchen icon set, Terrariums icon set as well as Vampire Hunter Kit. Coming up soon: Christmas Ornaments and Army of Darkness icon set. Available for Mac, PC and iContainer.

53. PaperPlanet Icon Pack

The pack consists of the icons for various applications, music and video players, standard Mac icons as well as a couple of extras.

54. tickfiguredancer

Four custom icons based on the super hero team 'the Avengers', available for Mac OS X and Windows.

55. A Live Spell Check

In this freebie icon set, you will find 16 free social media icons for sites that designers appreciate (such as deviantART, Flickr, Twitter, and more). This free icon set is called A Life in Pixels and is inspired by Minimalist design philosophies.The set includes 16 32px x 32px PNG files.

56. Free Glossy E-Commerce Icons

Presenting 32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file.

57. Shopping Cart Icon

Shopping cart full of items icon based.

58. Chalkwork Payment Icons

Chalkwork Payments is a free set of online payments icons, designed to perfectly complement all other sets in the Chalkwork Family. Featuring 21 original icons and 105 variations, these graphical representations of common payment services and payment-related imagery are a completely free icon set available for personal and commercial projects

59. Credit Card Icon Set

A set of six icons for showing your visitors that you accept credit card payment.

60. Weby Icons

eby Icon Set brings to you 100 icons at 64×64 pixels ready to be used in your application or website.The icons are available in PNG, ICO and ICNS format. They are free to use for both personal and commercial projects, including websites, templates & software.