22 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design

This round-up covers 22 beautiful and useful free icon sets for your next design.

We present mini icons, symbols, signs, desktop replacement icons etc. Please make sure to read the license agreements before using the icons. Let us know if you’d like to have more similar round-ups in the comments to this post.

Adobe Icon Sets

Icon replacement for Creative Suite 5 based on a mix of CS5 product box and icon design. 37 application icons, 300 document icons with application folder icons.

Download (CS5 Icons – Mac OS X Icons, 50 MB)

Download (CS5 Icons – iContainers, 43 MB)

Icon set replacement for recently released Creative Studio 4 based on retail product box design once again. Let me know if I miss any other CS4 apps.

Download (CS4 Icons, 26 MB)

All app & document icons now have 512×512 resource for Mac OS X Leopard. Some of them are updated to look cleaner and more icons are added for other Adobe apps. Folder icons are also included.

Download (CS3 Icon Replacement, 65 MB)

Upojenie Icon Set

All default iPhone/iPod Touch icons. Some 3rd party app icons. Total of 40 icons (+11 alts). Wallpaper, Dock, Pageindicators, Badge, closebox and info.plist.

Download (.zip, 6 MB)

Sabre Snow Black and Silver

This is a Set of Icons for Grapich Loverz! by miniMAC – Powered for OSXmagazine

Download (.zip, 52 MB)

Devine icons

This Package comes with 184 Unique Icons for your every Need. Devine Icons are very simple, but stunningly beautiful if you use a good theme. The most difficult part is making Apps.

Download (.zip, 49 MB)

Elegant Media Icons

These icons have no restrictions, so feel free to use them however you like. Redistribute, resell, or repackage them. The package includes 42 64×64 icons in both PNG and PSD form.

Download (.zip, 3 MB)

Elegant Themes Icon Pack For Free

These icons are restriction-free. Feel free to use and abuse them, redistribute them, resell them, or anything else you can think of. If you like them, then thank me by linking to this blog post Officially these icons are dual licensed under the GPL and MIT licenses. The pack includes 74 48×48px PNG icons.

Download (.zip, 205 KB)

Copenhagen Icon Set

If you are working on a web app, these icons will spice up any feature list. They are based on the most popular search terms from IconFinder, but targetted web design for web apps. The 25 icons cover many of features shown on web app sites, which include icons for client, payment, download, secure, email and many more.

Download (.zip package)

Outdated icons

Enjoy all these stuff belong to an outdated mattoid’s collections in his dusty attic in the 18th or 19th century!

Download (.zip, 1 MB)

Monster icons

This icon set includes 48×48 icons.

Simplicio

Download (.rar, 2.3 MB)

Extreme Grunge Garments Icons

This high quality, hand made, icon pack is full with 9 Extreme Grunge Social Media Garments. Each icon is in .png format with transparent backgrounds, sized at 256×256px. Icons are free for commercial and personal use.

Download (.zip, 7.64 MB)

Hand Drawn Icon Sets

This icon set includes 49 hand drawn icons.

Download (.zip, 5.7 MB)

Ciceronian Icon Set

This icon set includes 23 59×59 px icons.

Colorstroke free hand icon set

ColorStroked freehand Icon set includes over 22 graphics tailored icons for your personal needs. You may download and use it as you like. This pack includes many social media icons such as Delicious, Digg, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Technorati ,Twitter and WindowsLive. Moreover, universally and OS based icons such Tux, Windows, Terminal, Firefox, OppenOffice, Gimp etc is now available in the Free(ColorStroked) icon pack.

Download (.zip, 1 MB)

Kasual Icon Set

This icon set includes 150+ kasual icons, both ico and png.

Download (.7z, 11.3 MB). If you don’t have 7-zip, download it from http://www.7-zip.org/.

ID Icon Set

Download (.zip, 3.4 MB)