We are accustomed to seeing icons as bright and glossy bundles of pixel perfection, but this typical style of icon doesn’t always work for all styles of web design. For instance, grungey designs need icons to be a little dirty. While icons on a hand drawn style site should have line marks or brush strokes. In this article, we’ve rounded up 20 icon sets that break the mould of the typical icon. Here you will see icons that make use of painted brush strokes, sketchy line work, and grungy textures.
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Love this collection. Thank you.
Awesome collection. Are these free to use?
Great collection! Thanks for sharing.
diese icons sind nicht schlecht und gut verarbeitet
Thanks for the list of icons, those listed are of a different flavor.
Ah if only I had a place for these, they look great 😉
The Red Little Shoes Icons are ADORABLE!
I love the watercolor ones too – Nice roundup, though I’ve seen a lot of these before.
Good icon collections. i likes some of them web 2.0 social bookmarking icon sets.
These are awesome! We do a lot of icon work and mentioned icons in a recent post: http://bit.ly/bcu1xD Really appreciate these designs!
Thank you very much Henry for sharing these creative icons here.
Very good collection of icons.
Great stuff guys, WDL is becoming a daily must.
awesome ,, i like it .
i like the collection:
Great set of icons for designer inspiration. Thanks.
how do you download for social sites
Awesome collection, thanks for sharing!
Great collection of icons! Thanks for posting this up, it will come in handy.
Thanks,
Rebecca
A great collection, guys. I love the Wooden Badges…
Wonderful collection of icons. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome collection, thanks for sharing!~~i love it
Some of these are nicely done, could use something like this on my blog. Cheers