Top 10 Free Web Icon Sites
Below is a list of the top websites where can find free royalty free icons to download for your own use.
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1) Vista Icons
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Usage/Review: Great icon sets, very easy to use and beautifully designed website. Definitely recommended. No account necessary.
2) Icon Buffet
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Usage/Review: You need to signup for a free account in order to use this service. Very nice icons, worth the trouble of signing up.
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Usage/Review: Lots of nice icons, please read licenses before using though.
4) Fast Icon
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Usage/Review: Very few icons in each pack but the ones they do have look great, quality over quantity. An account isn’t required in order to download what you want.
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Usage/Review: Really smart icon sets, only free for personal use so might have to pay for license dependent on the type of website you run.
6) Web Sets
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Usage/Review: An overview linking to individual sets from lots of other resources. They pick some good ones, but normally not very elaborate so if you want to find stuff to download which is a bit more elaborate then look elsewhere.
7) Cool Archive
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Usage/Review: A lot of old style icons. Nice and easy to use and reasonable choice to pick from.
8) DryIcons
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Usage/Review: Highly professional sets. Very popular sets downloaded by high amounts of people. Must put a link back to them if you aren’t prepared to pay for a license.
9) IconArchive
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Usage/Review: Great selection with over 1000 sets, which together total tens of thousands of individual icons. Site also includes a good availability based around the latest web 2.0 properties.
10) Iconz World
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Usage/Review: Doesn’t appear to have been updated (at time of writing last update was May 2009) in quite some time. And lots of intrusive ads in the design. Still some good sets so worth looking.
Licenses
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