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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41 comments
Daniel
March 16, 2009Wow, VERY nice. Thanks.
photofolio
March 16, 2009Nice collection. Good icon design is difficult and is something different then 512x512px sized photographs.
ferd
March 16, 2009I love this collection.. its remarkable.
Chris Colhoun
March 16, 2009Loving the Starbucks and Moleskine icons
Nice list, Thanks WDL
max
March 16, 2009thats great, but which ones of these can be used in commercial projects ?
Patternhead
March 16, 2009Some nice looking icons here. Thanks
MisterFaster
March 16, 2009n1 -really detailed!
Sean Delaney
March 16, 2009Amazing!
Nathan Beck
March 16, 2009The massive media icons are amazing, the Canon EOS 400 is great as well.
custom icon design
March 16, 2009Nice collection, really like it
Aaron
March 16, 2009These icon graphics are amazing! Thanks a lot!
Wade Jackman
March 16, 2009beautiful work. some people just ooze talent.
mike
March 16, 2009Nice but they arent icons are they, they are illustrations!
Cam
March 16, 2009Once again, saving me some extra work! Thanks!
Online hry
March 16, 2009I can´t write anything than AMAZING.
IHeartTopTens
March 16, 2009Love this – Added to IHeartTopTens.com : http://www.ihearttoptens.com/view.php?uid=24
webcopymaster
March 16, 2009Unbelievable quality. Am sending this page to our own web designers so they can bookmark your site.
Rob Chant
March 16, 2009Most of those aren’t icons, they’re clip art!
ProjectCenter
March 16, 2009I like the way this icon set pertains to actual physical items that exist in the real world.
Hardy
March 16, 2009Love the moleskine one. Great iconset!
brent
March 16, 2009love the old school icons! thanks for sharing!
Steve Yu
March 17, 2009Great compilation. All the icon sets are gorgeous!
Personalized Kids Wall Art
March 17, 2009It’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.
Jonathan Patterson
March 17, 2009These are very awesome.
anyup
March 18, 2009so good i like this icon
Ivan
March 19, 2009Thank 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/
Merewald
March 21, 2009Awesome! Thanks so much.
Paul Randall
March 21, 2009Some really nice icons there. I especially like the Moleskine and Nes ones.
coffee addict
March 23, 2009Beautiful icons, thanks.
lawrence77
March 23, 2009Wow!
Cool icons!
I usually love Icons!
any tutorial for that?
Liam
March 26, 2009A 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?
Yang Yang
March 27, 2009You know, when you say extremely detailed, I thought well…and then, OMG how can an icon be carved into such nicety!!!
Khanhnv
May 6, 2009Woawh, I wonder how human can do that?
patrick james
May 12, 2009Pry 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
ika
May 15, 2009absolutely stunning icons!
Orlando Web Designer Dave
June 30, 2009I love these! I have a few really neat projects that I want to use these in.
Thanks very much!
Bilal
July 27, 2009Mind blowing!!!
topmaxtech
August 18, 2009thank you very match
thank u ageine
Juancho
March 27, 2010wow those are cool looking 3d icons.. i like the hd camcorder one : tnx!
Leandro
May 19, 2010cooooooooooool
Glen
May 20, 2010Fantastic! Very useful
Thanks!
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