I’ve recently come across a wealth of icons from various sources. At first I thought “I’ll keep all these to myself so I can impress my designer friends,” but then I thought “what else am I going to blog about?” So I decided to share them. Besides, sharing is cool too — just ask the creators of all these amazing icons:

• Crystal Icon Set by Everaldo Coelho
  Over 300 icons released under the Lesser General Public License.
  

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• Flag Icons from famfamfam.com
  247 public domain icons. They are free for any use (attribution appreciated but not required). The flag icons use the ISO3166-1 alpha-2 country codes where appropriate.
  

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• Nuvola Icons by David Vignoni
  These icons are released under the Lesser General Public License.
  

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• Royalty Free Icons by CocoaDev
  This is a smaller set of toolbar icons for general use. No license information is given but the readme.txt file states that they are free for use with a linked credit, similar to the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.
  

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• The RSS Feed Icon
  Download the standard RSS feed icon in various editable formats.
  

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• Silk Icons from famfamfam.com
  This is a free set of 700 icons released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. That means you can use the icons for anything so long as you link back to famfamfam.
  

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• Tango Icons from freedesktop.org
  These icons are released under the Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license. The download links weren’t on the page, but I found them via Google cache:
  • Tango Icon Theme 0.8.0
  • Tango Icon Theme Extras

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Several of the icon sets were designed as desktop packages, but because the icons are individual PNG files (in most cases), they’re perfect for web design too.

I feel like I’ve been living under a rock. If the above list doesn’t satisfy your craving for icons, then you have to check this out:

Icon Themes on Wikimedia Commons

Edit: Also check out Icon Finder

Please check out the licenses and follow the rules when using these icons. The licenses are legally binding and it’s the right thing to do. The designers have put in enormous amounts of time and, in most cases, just want credit for their work. I think that’s the least they deserve.

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Lately I’ve been coming across a lot of really cool stuff on the web via a variety of sources. The most recent of which has been Digg. I had heard about Digg for years but a system to rank popular news stories just didn’t interest me that much. I finally took a look at the site and I was an immediate convert. The design category is fantastic.

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