Martin Karásek, a user interface and icon designer from Prague, has a beautiful freebie to share.
Freshy Icons is a set of 100+ pixel-perfect icons with mostly action and file/folder items.
They are offered as a single, layered PSD file where each icon is created as shapes so that they can be resized without any loss-of-quality.
Brankic1979, a small design/dev team mostly focused on WordPress theme development, has created an amazing set of free glyph icons.
The set includes 350 icons, comes as a single PSD file where each item can be scaled to any size without loss of quality.,
Such a huge set includes almost any item an application needs from actions to charts or documents.
This icon set is free for both personal and commercial usage.
Joseph North, the talented designer of Sublink Interactive, has created an icon set named SweetiePlus which is shared for free.
The set have 120 icons in total, has 2 sizes: 16*16px + 24*24px and comes as transparent PNG format.
Items in the set are mostly action icons which is nice for app designers/developers.
Micro Icon Set is a package of 110 slick icons that are very suitable for using in web applications.
The set comes as vector shapes in a Photoshop file (.PSD) and they are sized 16*16px by default.
It includes items like download/upload, folders, devices, charts, comments and more.
Jigsoar Icons is a set of 60 very good looking, smooth icons that are released for free.
The download package includes transparent .PNG items in four sizes (16px, 24px, 48px, and 64px) with light and dark versions of each icon.
There is also the Adobe Illustrator vector file (.AI) for customizing them however you wish.
Icons are flat, have a mobile-like style and includes widely used ones like edit, delete, e-mail, basket and more.
The Working Group, a talented web agency, has created a set of pixel-perfect iPhone toolbar icons and released them for free.
iPhone Toolbar Icons consists of 160 items in transparent PNG which are sized 30*30px.
Items included in the set are very common ones that any app can require (like arrows, charts, media player and text editor actions, etc.)
There is also a retina display version of the set with 3 different sizes (24*24px, 48*48px and 64*64px).
Icon Fonts (or pictograms) are available for a very long time but the ones that are specifically designed for web apps are appearing lately.
They are so flexible and fun to use considering each icon can be resized, colored, rotated and styled very easily. No need to hack them in our image editing apps but just CSS is enough.
And, making buttons, menus, lists, etc. with icons becomes painless as we deal with a single element: "the text" rather than "the text and the images/icons".
Previously, pictograms for common-use were shared (Designing With Fonts: 30 Useful & Free Dingbats). But, this time, we come up with the ones that are perfect for websites and web apps, the ones that may replace your icon sets. And, they are free.
Entypo is a high-quality icon font with 100+ items and available in OpenType font, vector EPS and web font.
Font Awesome is designed to be used with Twitter Bootstrap but also can fit into any other web project.
There are 150+ items, comes with various font formats and includes CSS + LESS styles.
A set of 90+ slick pictograms which can be used in any size (but work much better in >24px).
Today, the development toolkit of many web designers/developers consist of the features that come with HTML5, CSS3 and probably jQuery.
The talented team at IconShock has created a set of web technologies icons exclusively for WRD readers with items from this kit and Ruby on Rails (considering the ease it provides).
There are 24 icons which come in transparent PNG and completely layered AI files.
Hope that they can add a visual beauty to your designs when referring to these technologies and they are free to be used in both personal + commercial projects (icons can not be redistributed without permission).
Iconshock
Icons are created by the guys of Iconshock, with more than 350 icon sets on its stock, the same designers of the fantastic free bundles for WP lovers behind WordPressThemeShock and the design blog WebDesignShock.
Metro Icon Pack is a set of slick icons whose designs are inspired from the Windows 7 Phone (code named Metro).
The set includes 33 unique icons with 4 different variations (white, black and with/without circles).
Items are all action icons, comes as .PNG and they are free to be used in both personal or commercial projects.
IconShock, the icon design company behind many popular icon sets, is now sharing a huge set for Android designers/developers.
Android Icons Set consists of 15,000 items styled with the Android's design guidelines and probably the most complete set for the platform.
There are 600 completely unique items while the rest are the addons (like "add file, edit file, delete file") which is great to have the necessary action icons when needed.
It is free to be used in personal projects (free version includes 3 sizes: 24*24px, 32*32px, 48*48px).
P.S. They also have a similar iPhone icons set.
