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In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private and commercial projects. You may always use them for free in your private projects. Nevertheless, it is always worth to take a look at the license agreements — they can change from time to time.
You can also scan through the icons-related articles we’ve published before:
- 40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
to download some fresh professional icon goodies, - 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
to spice up your posts with nice illustrations or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons, - Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs
with high-quality free icons which you can use for your desktop and web-designs, - 20 Free And Fresh Icon Sets
with over 20 free beautiful sets and references to further free icon libraries.
Free Icons For Your Web Designs and Desktop
Function Icon Set
A set of 128 high-quality free icons for bloggers and designers to use in any projects; "social media" icons are included as well. Resolution: 48×48px.
Concept Icons .08
12 different icons in PNG format 256x256px. Designed by Roberto Abril Hidalgo.
Affel
Affel combines purple and black colors with some lighting and shadow details to make your computer look classy and as much special as it deserves. |Inside: 72 icons in PNG format with a resolution of 256x256 px. These icons may not be used in any way for commercial purposes.
Smultron Icon Pack
Smultron better icons is an icon updater set for Smultron. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Smultron 2.1.5.
Eico Studio Anniversary Icon Pack
16 crisp, sharp and beautiful icons released by the Eico Design Agency to celebrate its first anniversary. Available in .ico, .png and .icns-format in the resolution 128×128px.
Kidaubis 3D Icon - Blue series
The icon set with three icons (E-Mail, music box and tool box) available.
Beijing 2008 Icons
A large "olympic" high-quality set with over 20 related icons.
Jonas Rask Icons
An updated collection of various icons designed by Jonas Rask. We have featured Jonas in our previous posts; now the icons have been updated. Resolutions vary from 16×16px to 512×512px.
The Shield Icon Set
This set includes 4 files in resolutions 256×256px, 128×128px, 64×64px and 32×32px. Available in formats .ico and .png. Designed by Marvin Ristau.
Mac Icons
This set includes 5 .png-files in high resolutions. Designed in Illustrator CS.
Pure Icon Pack
Pure Icon Pack contains 14 high quality (256x256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: CD Icon, Computer Icon, Folder Icon, DVD Icon, Internet Icon, Network Icon, Search Icon, USB Icon, ZIP Icon and others.
Mythique Design
16 icons for a messanger user interface. Png, resolutions: 16×16px to 256×256px..
Oxygen Icons Set
Over 1000 professional desktop icons designed for KDE, packed in one single pack and released under GPL.
Boxes Vista-like Icons
These icons are based on the new packaging for Windows Vista. 26 icons for various OS (13 icons in two categories: box with disc and without disc).Png & Ico format. Free for non-commercial use.
Smashing Royal Icon Set
The set contains 6 “royal” icons which you can use for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free — without any restrictions whatsoever. The icons are available in .ico and .png-formats in resolutions 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px.
Google and Facebook icons
Most of the icons featured here have been specifically made for the Fluid app for OS X Leopard. Sure you can use them for other things, but that’s what they were created for and that’s why each download includes an appl.icns file. This file is to be placed in its Fluid-generated application counterpart’s Resources folder. Designed by Chris Ivarson.
Fruity Apples
9 .png and .icns (Leopard ready : 512x512 px), 2 Bonus and 1 Wallpaper (2560x1600 px).
I Love "Blondes" Beer Icon
512x512px in png and icns.
Document Icons
512x512px in png and icns.
Niepces Camera Obscura Icons
These desktop icons show the Camera Obscura as it was used by Nicephore Niepce by 1826 or 1827 in an Aperture and iPhoto style and are intended as an homage to him. Mac + Win + Linux + iContainer. Leopard ready (512×512). Including 7 icons intended to replace Aperture or iPhoto, Aperture Library, iPhoto Library, Aperture Vault, Aperture Project and your picture folder.
Facebook User Interface Icons
25 Facebook ui icons in a high res and vector form... with slight adherences to the tango specification.
Cyberduck
Icon replacement set, resolution: 512×512px. Application icon, document icons and download icons as well as bookmark drawer and bookmarks icon are available. Format: .dmg.
Autumn Breeze Icons
6 Icons for Windows in 8 Sizes. My Computer, My Pictures, Dustbin Full, Dustbin Empty, CD and one Icon for your fav. Design Software.
Web Icons Pack
7 desktop icons for Windows and OS X. Available for Windows and Mac.
Whistle Icons
What about using whistle for a search box? DesignFreak does exactly that.
Chemical Icon Pack
Chemical Icon Set celebrates the creative chemical in our brains where all our creative projects come from in 4 Beautiful icons for your creative project or developer folders in neon chemical colors. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or later.
Small icons
ORB Icons
10 basic user interface icons available in the resolution 16×16px, 32×32px and 128×128px. Designed by Alexy Goncharenko.
Online Shop Icons (the link was removed due to copyright infringement)
9 icons in the format .psd. Registration is required to download the icons.
eCommerce Icons
32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file.
BKdesign Icons Pack 1 (Link removed due to copyright infringement)
Some professional icon sets designed by the Chinese design agency Bottlebaby are available for free download.
BKdesign Icons Pack 1 (Link removed due to copyright infringement)
Some professional icon sets designed by the Chinese design agency Bottlebaby are available for free download.
Fugue icon set
358 icons (16×16px) are included in PNG format. The icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Accessibility icon set
This set includes 9 icons one can use to display accessibility features or address accessibility issues. Released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Germany, when used backlink is required.
Heart and Ice Icon Packs
Icons in both icon sets are available in resolutions 256x256, 6 PNGs in the first package, 8 PNGs in the second package.
Files icon set
A large set of various filetypes in resolutions 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 72×72, 96×96, 128×128. Format: ico.
Weather conditions
49 Icons 128×128 dedicated for Mobydock’s set of weather conditions or any other similar widget.
40 Image Editing Icons
"Some smiling lips, a camera lens, some vortex colour, a crop tool, a TV icon, and plenty more." All icons are available within an Adobe Illustrator CS2 file (10.1 Mb).
Keynote Objects
The package combines 100 easy to use and attractive objects. The background of all objects is transparent and can be used on any colored background. Each object can be changed in size, rotated, increased or decreased in opacity, fitted with shadows or even overlapped with one another to create extra effects. Keynote Objects are compatible with Keynote, iWeb, Pages, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.
Milky Icon Set
A large vector icon set designed by Frexy design studio includes Format: png. Resolution: 256×256px.
Blogging Icons
This set is designed specifically for bloggers. There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format. Blogging Icons Set is released under Creative Commons License, please feel free to use it on your personal and commercial projects.
Ferrari Gauge
Download includes iContainer (3 icons). Resolution: 512×512px. For personal use only.
iMac Evolution Icons
The evolution of the iMac contains 6 different iMac icons, including the first iMac from 1998 and the newest model from 2007.
Tasty Icons
Two tasty icons of coffee goodness. These two freebies come in the following sizes and formats: 48 x 48 px; 128 x 128 px; 256 x 256 px; 512 x 512 px; PNG (transparent backgrounds); CNS; ICO.
Keyfob
Formats: .icns, .png, 128×128px.
Envelope Icons
This set features a variety of different envelopes and folders of different sizes which we foresee being extremely useful for many print and web design projects.
