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21 Best Icon Sets for Designing Web Apps

When designing a web application, it’s important to make sure the user interface is easy to use. Using icons along side navigation links is one key ingredient to achieving this. But Instead of creating icon sets from scratch, which can be very time consuming, why not use icons that have already been created for you. Here are some of the best icon sets out there for use in web application designs.

Jonas Rask Design Icons for Developers

Jonas Rask Design Icons for Developers

ASP.NET Icons

ASP.NET Icons

Tango Icon Library

Tango Icon Library

Aesthetica Icons

Aesthetica Icons

Diagona Icons by pinvoke

Diagona Icons

Fugue Icons by pinvoke

Fugue Icons

FAMFAMFAM – Silk

FAMFAMFAM - Silk

Web Application Icons Set

Web Application Icons Set

Coquette Icons

Coquette Icons

Free web development icons #4 SE

Free web development icons #4 SE

Developpers Icons

Developpers Icons

Knob Buttons Toolbar icons

Knob Buttons Toolbar icons

Simplistica Icons

Simplistica Icons

Function Icon Set

Function Icon Set

Milky

Milky

Simplicio

Simplicio

Fresh

Fresh

FAMFAMFAM – Mini

FAMFAMFAM - Mini

Crystal Clear

Crystal Clear

Monofactor Vector Icons

Monofactor Vector Icons

IVista Icon Pack 2

IVista Icon Pack 2

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30 Comments

  • THEODIN
    January 2nd, 2009

    Finally some icon sets that look great and I could actually use on a project!

    Thank you very much!!!!

  • Wordpressology
    January 2nd, 2009

    Awesome set!

  • Henry
    January 2nd, 2009

    THEODIN – Glad you like them. That is exactly why I created this post. It seems like most of the icons you see today look amazing, but have limited “real world” use. These look great and can be used in many different kinds of applications.

  • Online hry
    January 2nd, 2009

    Awesome set! One of the best.

  • social networking web design
    January 3rd, 2009

    beautiful list …thanks!

  • Binny V A
    January 3rd, 2009

    Nice list. I have also made such a list for free icon sets. Take a look.

  • cutt
    January 3rd, 2009

    nice set… thanks

  • Honour Chick
    January 3rd, 2009

    great compilation… thxs :)

  • Omni Web Solutions
    January 3rd, 2009

    Nice, thank you!

  • ACE
    January 3rd, 2009

    Nice collection. I also goto http://icons16×16.com/ for web design icons

  • projectautomatika
    January 3rd, 2009

    This will be useful for any work. Thanks!

  • swtspt
    January 4th, 2009

    Thank you for assembling this resource! I am going to use Simplistica for a project here in Japan. By the way, I got here via Douglas Karr’s blog.

  • Gennice
    January 4th, 2009

    Wow! What a great list of icons… And just in time! I really needed something like this for my new web app.

    Thanks a ton!

  • Saladin
    January 4th, 2009

    Nice Icon sets thank u verry much! ^^

  • Gmt
    January 4th, 2009

    This is a good collection of icons here:

    http://www.backtoessentials.com/graphics/mini-icons-for-web-designers/

  • ri108
    January 4th, 2009

    that is good portofolio for my web…..

  • joyoge designers' bookmark
    January 5th, 2009

    nice icons useful selections thanks..
    one new free rss icon set are link below
    http://www.joyologo.com/product.php?id_product=55
    all the best

  • titasix
    January 6th, 2009

    Awesome…more cool icons finally found !!
    Thanks….

  • Alessio
    January 9th, 2009

    Very nice, thanks. Useful for my job!

  • Geoserv
    January 13th, 2009

    Great list, I like the Simplicio ones the most.

  • Hamant Keval
    January 14th, 2009

    Incredible Sets
    Many thanks for putting them all up for us
    Many thanks

    Hamant

  • Vijay39
    January 17th, 2009

    What a fantastic collection of high quality icons; great work guys, thanks a lot! : )

  • Tripp
    January 20th, 2009

    This is a great resource. Thanks!

  • bebo
    January 21st, 2009

    Hey, thanks for the upload, these are very proffesional looking icons.

    Best regards

  • Nebojsa
    February 9th, 2009

    Milky, Fresh and Simplicio are one of my favourites. Good choice.

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  • Roger
    March 25th, 2009

    You may also want to check out http://icons.mysitemyway.com. Close to 4,000 free icons in sets of at least 140 icons per set. Free for commercial use. No attribution required. Can use contact form on site to request free PSD’s so you can create your own.

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  • Web developer
    June 9th, 2009

    Great icon collections. I think you’ll find what you need.

  • Wimal
    June 11th, 2009

    This is hell of an amazing site. what can I say…one more great collection of ICON sets. Thanx a lot.

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