The Best Icon Sets for Minimal Style Web Design
With so many free icon sets available now, sometimes it makes more sense to not spend countless hours designing and creating your own. However, it’s important that you do find the right style of icons to match your design. In the case of minimal web design, it’s all about clean layouts, little use of color, and few design elements. This means that when icons are required, they should posses the same minimal design qualities. Here are some of the best icon sets for this type of design style.
Mono Icons
Pictodeck
The Webdesigner Sketchup Icons
Free Vector Icons
Pictoico
Token
Glyphish (130 Icons)
BrightMix
BrightMix
Pixelated
Two Tone Icons
Mini Icons
BackToPixel
Iconic
Kostenlose Icons
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48 comments
Brendan Wenzel
January 21, 2010Thank you so much for the consistent list of resources. You make finding things super easy.
Morne Oosthuizen
January 21, 2010Thanks. These lists are always great. Like Brendan said: “Makes finding things really easy!”
ronald
January 21, 2010this site is the best site where you can found the most unique icon… this is it!!! i truly, truly found it!!
neer
January 21, 2010nice small icons i like it
Benjamin Alijagić
January 21, 2010Wow! That’s great collection. Thanks!
Benny
January 21, 2010Wonderful! Exactly what I was looking for, at the perfect timing. Thanks for this collection.
blythe
January 21, 2010I totally agree with minimal design qualities when it comes to icons and overall site design. These examples of icon sets are great. Checkout some more insight on icon usage within website design if you are interested!
http://www.microarts.com/culture/branding-insights/2009/10/making-your-web-icons-usable.php/?s=bl
Mike
January 21, 2010Thanks for the links to the icons. I might need some of these for my next project!
Tom Ross
January 21, 2010Thanks, I’ll definitely try to integrate these into an upcoming theme.
Jordan Walker
January 21, 2010Great compilation, thanks for putting it together.
Mushroom Digital
January 21, 2010The fourth set look perfect for our website’s redesign which we are currently still in the planning stage for. Very resourceful, cheers
Mark
January 21, 2010What a brilliant resource, thanks for sharing!
BigM75
January 21, 2010the icons on the list are great and are not so great, i love the vector icons in grey
Francis
January 21, 2010Wow. Pretty much any style of icon you could ever need. I still think it’s a good exercise for designers to take a stab at doing their own. Good learning experience.
Anita
January 21, 2010Thanks! These classy minimal icons aren’t easy to find.
Joe
January 21, 2010Great resource, thanks! Love the indented letterpress style icons.
Matthew Heidenreich
January 21, 2010very useful list! thanks for this.
mheidzir
January 22, 2010Hello there!
I want to say thank you for this post.
Ive been searching up & down for minimalist icon.
GKauten Consulting
January 22, 2010Since I am primarily a web developer and rarely would ever call myself an actual designer, but WDL has been an integral part of keeping a well rounded life between the two!
Noel Wiggins
January 22, 2010Excellent collection! I particularly like Free Vector Icons with its de-bossed effect and the pixel one definitely communicates the “utilities” (those important navigational elements that you just can’t remove to make your site cleaner, less cluttered and minimalistic)
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Thanks and Regards
Noel for Nopun.com
a professional graphic design studio
Paul
January 22, 2010Great list. I can’t even choose which set to use first :]
Inside the Webb
January 22, 2010Minimal web design is usually the best way to go. Streamlined user interface, no questionable buttons or actions, and everything just seems much smoother and easier to use from a UI standpoint.
Damon
January 22, 2010So minimalist design equals black and white??
ilya
January 23, 2010Yes! This is what I looking for. My Biggest Thanks to author!
Ondrej Lechan
January 23, 2010Very nice collection and inspiration for next works
Nick Parsons
January 24, 2010These are perfect – I was just looking for icons exactly like these but was having trouble tracking them down. Good job, I’ve bookmarked this post and will definitely be coming back!
I agree that minimalist design is great – and icons like these can add a such an irrestible touch of simple style without being too flashy.
Alexander
January 26, 2010you’re missing http://helveticons.ch/
the set is not free, but very nicely done
Lars Tong Strömberg
January 26, 2010Great collection! Lot´s of good sets for a minimal design and yes, the choice of icons very important for overall look and feel.
Jo
January 26, 2010Thanks for sharing
Another
January 26, 2010Wow, ANOTHER fantastic list of icons that we already saw hundreds of times. I will spend six more hours choosing the right one for my next project!
And yes, can’t wait for ANOTHER fantastic roundup!
Kuldeep Daftary
January 28, 2010Thanks
Bernie
February 11, 2010Hey by any chance do you know where the Iphone Interface icon set is? It use to be here? Thanks
FLiTz
February 21, 2010wow. you really did a great list. thanks
Dimi
February 22, 2010Just what I needed, thanks!!
cssclassic
February 27, 2010Nice posting, Excellent one
Ionut Popa
March 9, 2010Nice roundup, thanks for the effort, it’s a bookmark!
Robert O
March 11, 2010I am extremely grateful for this. The true spirit of sharing!
Torbjoern Karlevid
March 19, 2010My Twitter post “OK, I know I said it before I never post this links. But this icons are sooo cool. Darn! Amazing!”
Danieldev
March 29, 2010Hello,
Great set of icons just what I was looking for.
Alex icon designer
April 14, 2010Great collection. You can add my free (CC-NC licensed) 244 black or white mono color icon set (made for Gentleface custom icons design. Icons are optimized for 16×16 pixel size and available in 16×16, 32×32 and 48×48 pixel sizes. Perfect for wireframes, toolbars or iPhone/iPad apps.
imp-ressions
April 16, 2010Great stuff. Bookmarked!
télé 3d
April 20, 2010thanks ! love this minimalist way !!!
Urviho
July 30, 2010Nice collection
Thank you
Holger Kruse
September 9, 2010i love minimalistic designs!
thanks for getting some inspiration
Marko
August 8, 2011Wow, thx for sharing
Nikola Cvrtnjak
August 13, 2011Very useful icons. I’m a big fan of minimalism. Anyway I looked at other posts on this website and i think I’ll subscribe on RSS
. Tnx
Dutch icon designer
September 4, 2011Minimalism in icon design is great and I believe it is much more harder to create an interesting form when you are not allowed to use fancy gradients, colors, shiners and such. Check out dutchicon.com to see what I mean.
Kumu
September 22, 2012Thank you so much for sharing these sets. I was missing an icon for a set i didn’t know the name of. But took me shorter than i thought it would finding the right one. All i did was searching for “minimal icons” in google and there you were
Thanks again!!!
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