22 Extremely Detailed and Beautiful Icon Sets
Icons come in many different sizes and styles. Some are flat and solid colors, while others can be very detailed. Icons in web design are often used to enhance content and navigation, but the ones in this post are so detailed that they could easily stand alone as beautiful works of art. So if you plan on using these, be careful that they don’t steal the show.
Helix icons
Device Icon Set
Office Space
Massive Media Icons
Starbucks coffee icons
Nes Icons Pack
OLD SCHOOL ICONS
PANDORA dock icons
Package Icons
Sweets icons set
MacBook Air and iMac
Apple LED 24″ Display Icon
Camera Icon
Digital Camera Icon
Pioneer Camp
Canon 400D + lens 17-85mm
Mouse category Season 02
Mighty Mouse and EyeTV Stick
Pool
DiskIcons
Realistic Icons
Moleskine Icons
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Mar 16, 2009
Wow, VERY nice. Thanks.
Mar 16, 2009
Nice collection. Good icon design is difficult and is something different then 512×512px sized photographs.
Mar 16, 2009
I love this collection.. its remarkable.
Mar 16, 2009
Loving the Starbucks and Moleskine icons
Nice list, Thanks WDL
Mar 16, 2009
thats great, but which ones of these can be used in commercial projects ?
Mar 16, 2009
Some nice looking icons here. Thanks
Mar 16, 2009
n1 -really detailed!
Mar 16, 2009
Amazing!
Mar 16, 2009
The massive media icons are amazing, the Canon EOS 400 is great as well.
Mar 16, 2009
Nice collection, really like it
Mar 16, 2009
These icon graphics are amazing! Thanks a lot!
Mar 16, 2009
beautiful work. some people just ooze talent.
Mar 16, 2009
Nice but they arent icons are they, they are illustrations!
Mar 16, 2009
Once again, saving me some extra work! Thanks!
Mar 16, 2009
I can´t write anything than AMAZING.
Mar 16, 2009
Love this – Added to IHeartTopTens.com : http://www.ihearttoptens.com/view.php?uid=24
Mar 16, 2009
Unbelievable quality. Am sending this page to our own web designers so they can bookmark your site.
Mar 16, 2009
Most of those aren’t icons, they’re clip art!
Mar 16, 2009
I like the way this icon set pertains to actual physical items that exist in the real world.
Mar 16, 2009
Love the moleskine one. Great iconset!
Mar 16, 2009
love the old school icons! thanks for sharing!
Mar 17, 2009
Great compilation. All the icon sets are gorgeous!
Mar 17, 2009
It’s great to see how far things have come along since the 32×32 bitmapped icons from a few years ago. These are so realistic and detailed that it’s hard to call them just icons anymore.
Mar 17, 2009
These are very awesome.
Mar 18, 2009
so good i like this icon
Mar 19, 2009
Thank you for advertising our icons! And your article came two days before we rolled out another SIX sets. For example, here is the money:
http://visualpharm.com/finance_icon_set/
Mar 21, 2009
Awesome! Thanks so much.
Mar 21, 2009
Some really nice icons there. I especially like the Moleskine and Nes ones.
Mar 23, 2009
Beautiful icons, thanks.
Mar 23, 2009
Wow!
Cool icons!
I usually love Icons!
any tutorial for that?
Mar 26, 2009
A lot of icon posts are adding the helix set to these lists, thing is, they are not available to anyone. I understand T1TO is a fantastic icon artist, but why put them in a “freebies” post when no one can use them?
Mar 27, 2009
You know, when you say extremely detailed, I thought well…and then, OMG how can an icon be carved into such nicety!!!
May 6, 2009
Woawh, I wonder how human can do that?
May 12, 2009
Pry icons from Jonas Rask REALLY need to be on this list. Phenomenal work from that guy.
Here’s a link to the set:
http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16788460
May 15, 2009
absolutely stunning icons!
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Jun 30, 2009
I love these! I have a few really neat projects that I want to use these in.
Thanks very much!
Jul 27, 2009
Mind blowing!!!
Aug 18, 2009
thank you very match
thank u ageine