Picons.me, an icon design company offering various icon sets, is sharing a set of 60 social icons for free.
The set has items for all the popular social networks and comes in multiple vector formats: .AI, .EPS, .PDF.
There are also .PSD + .CSH versions and .PNG in 8 different sizes (from 16*16px to 512*512px).
P.S. In order to prevent any confusions, the resource's website mentions that the Picons.me license doesn't apply to this social set.
Social networking icons, although there are many of them, new and original ones are worth-bookmarking considering almost every website needs some social love.
Stampaxx is a set of 100 social icons that are in the shape of stamps and all have their unique social network-related motto.
They are available in 2, single-file, vector formats: .PSD and .EPS, so, updating them is so easy.
For anyone developing Android applications and/or creating an Android-related website, using the official icons for the platform would be a time-saver.
The Android SDK includes the complete set of icons, however, they are in .PNG format and hard to resize or customize.
Olof Brickarp, who is a UI/graphics designer, has converted most of the whole official icons into vector formats which are now available in .AI, .EPS and .SVG.
Alex Peattie, a talented freelance web designer and developer, has created a high-quality and vector social icons set.
The set has 100 icons and includes items for every major social network (Twitter, Facebook, Delicious, YouTube and many others).
The icon set can be downloaded from WRD:
or from Alex Peattie's website.
This vector social icons set is free to be used in both personal and commercial projects.
Photoshop, Illustrator and Freehand, besides being amazing applications, all have a bad feature; their initial load is pretty slow.
And, when you only need to see what is inside a vector file to find the right one or you don't have these applications (but may need to open vector files), PSD, EPS and AI Viewer softwares can be a quick solution.
They are free applications (for Windows) which loads fast and not only opens the related vector files but can save them as JPEG, Bitmap, GIF, PNG and other extensions. Also, you can resize or rotate them too.
P.S. What would be better is: a single application that can open them all.
Touch screen devices, specially with the popularity of iPhone and iPad, are on the rise.
Just like standard websites, icons help so much in guiding users "about the the usage" of the websites/applications built for them.
GestureWorks is sharing a set of 20 free gesture icons that covers most of the scenarios like:
The icons come as transparent .PNG files and also in vector formats (.EPS, .AI, .PDF) for improving further.
There are lots of social bookmarking icon sets and new ones with a twist are being designed everyday.
Socialmonochromicons is a set of 150 vector social bookmarking icons to help you create a custom one by providing you the shapes of popular services.
They come in vector (.EPS) and transparent .PNG files so you can customize them easily.
Default Icon is a set of frequently improved and free vector icons in their simplest form possible.
Besides websites, they can be used in any portable devices as well considering the resolution is only 1bit.
The items are 16px*16px by default (any size can be created with the vector files) and comes in .EPS, .PNG and .GIF formats.
Shine is a free icon set designed by Icon Eden that consists of 31 shiny and 3D icons.
It includes popular items like charts, document, print, save, comment and more.
The set comes in multiple sizes (24*24px, 32*32px, 48*48px, 64*64px, 128*128px) and in multiple formats (.PNG, .TIFF, .ICO, .ICN).
The download package also includes the vector file (.EPS).
Gesturecons is a set of 50 vector gesture icons which is specially designed to be used with projects related to multi-touch interfaces.
However, they can also be used inside any application to demonstrate to users how to complete actions or prompt them to interact with an application when they approach it
They come with .PDF, .AI, & .EPS file types which is great for editing or creating derivatives of the icons provided.
