You’ll be pleased to see that I was able to find 15 Must Have Minimalist Icons Sets. These icons are perfect for designs that are focused on content and typography.

Default Icon

Goo-EE Icon Set

bwpx.icns

Munich

Sanscons

Wireframe Toolbar Icons

Eclipse 2

PICOL

Dortmund

UIDesign Icons

Symbol Signs

Mnml Icon Set

Only2 Icons (92 icons in set)

Devine Icons 2

Devine Icons

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In our continued effort to find and deliver to you the best free design resources, we’ve compiled a list of 20 excellent icon sets for application design. Just like fonts and textures, you can’t have too many icons in your design library. In this collection you’ll find a variety of icon styles that should fit any type of application design.

Basic Set 2

iconSweets

Mini Icons

Free iphone toolbar icons

Glyphish

Splashy Icons

Token

Basic Set

WooFunction

Vaga

Pixelated

Nixus

Vaga Icon Set

FAMFAMFAM – Mini

Free web development icons #1

Free web development icons #2

Tango

Led Icon Set

FAMFAMFAM – Silk

Pixel LED Icon Set

Icons are a favorite free resource of designers and bloggers. There are tons of quality, free icon sets out there and in this post we’ll feature 25 that are great for blog design. These icons sets include the those that are great for use with blogs and social media.

Cute Blogging Icon Set

Extended Set of Social Icons

Web 2.0rigami

Socialize Icons

Grunge Peeling Stickers

Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers

Sketchy Web Icons

Glossy Blogging Icons

Function Free Icon Set

TurboMilk Icons

Blogging Icon Set

Social Bookmark Iconset

Social Bookmark Iconset – Part II

Handycons

Old Bottle Crowns

Heart

Pixel Perfect Social Media Icons

Social Media Icon Set

Rivet Social

Circular Social Media Icons

Cheers

Color Stroked Icons

Polaroid Icon Set

Handy Icons

Social Icons

Having the right icons can help to make a web design look much more professional and complete. Fortunately, there are some excellent free icon sets available that offer very high quality icons. In this post we’ll feature 35 sets that every web designer should be aware of. Keep these icon sets handy and they will meet your needs for most projects.

To find more icons, please visit Icon Fever.

Flavour Extended

Quartz

Siena

Function Free Icon Set

Project Icons

Standard Iconset

Stationery

Fresh

Practika

On Stage

Milky

Web Application Icon Set

Light Icons

Bright!

Monofactor Vector Icons

Shopping Cart Icon

E-Commerce Icons

E-Commerce Icons

Money Icons

Chalkwork Payments

Basic Icons

WooFunction

Icons for Designers

Portfolio Icons

MinIcons

Brand Spanking New Mini Icons

Farm-Fresh Web Icons

Led Icon Set

Web Development Icons

Developers Icons

Sketched Up

WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set

FamFamFam Mini Icons

32px Mania

Moleskine Icon

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We’re happy to announce the addition of a sixth gallery, Icon Fever.

Icon Fever will showcase the best icon packs available for designers. At this time it includes 42 excellent sets of icons, and more will be added on a daily basis. You can browse through the archives by tag (such as social media icons, Twitter icons, grunge icons, etc.), or you can view icons that are available for commercial use. Hopefully Icon Fever will prove to be a valuable resource for web designers who are looking to find the right icons for their projects, as well as providing some exposure for icon designers. If you’re interested in following the regular updates you can subscribe to the RSS feed or follow Icon Fever on Twitter.

If you’re an icon designer, feel free to submit your work to be included in the gallery. Free and premium icons can be submitted, although priority will be given to free icons, particularly those that are licensed to be used for commercial projects.

Re-Design of All Gallery Sites

The other five galleries in the Inspiration Fuse network have been given a fresh look.

Folio Focus

CartFrenzy

Minimal Exhibit

Blog Design Heroes

TypeInspire

Icon design is an essential skill for every web designer. A website or blog with beautiful icons will definitely attract visitors’ attention.

Although we may download free icons or purchase stock icons from the web, but learning the skill of icon design will definitely brings you a lot of benefits. Besides brush up your Photoshop/icon design skills, you will also have custom made icons that suit your website’s design. Some of the free icons are only for non-commercial products or websites. So having your unique icons, you can get rid of these restrictions.

1. How to Create a Planet Icon Set in Photoshop

2. Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial

3. Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop

4. Design a 3D Box Icon in Photoshop

5. Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop

6. iTune Icon

7. Adobe Bridge Icon

8. Designing Security Icon

9. How To Draw The Billings Application Icon

10. CD Dock Icon Tutorial

11. Photoshop Gold Ipod Shuffle Icon

12. Create a Glossy Home Icon in Photoshop

13. Photoshop design sell MP3 digital player logo icon in Photoshop

14. Photoshop 4GB Card Icon

15. Photoshop Ipod Portable Speaker Icon

16. Photoshop design bluethoth logo icon in photoshop

17. Photoshop design USB portable speaker logo icon in Photoshop

18. Create an Adobe Box Icon in Photoshop

19. Create a Dock Icon Folder in Photoshop

20. Photoshop Tea Cup Icon

21. Glossy Silver Web 2.0 Icon Tutorial

22. Glossy Black Button Icons

23. Crystal Clear Bubble Icons

24. Yellow Road Sign Icons

25. Red and White Pearl Download Icon

26. Monitor Icon Design – Photoshop Tutorial

27. Draw 3D Crystal Icon in Photoshop

28. The Making of an Icon

29. Christmas Icon Tutorial

30. Crystal Ladybug Webbie

31. New Quicktime Icon in Photoshop

32. Skype Buddy Icon Photoshop Tutorial

33. Glossy RSS icon

34. Stylish Search Icon – Photoshop Tutorial

35. Create A Mockingly Smiley

36. Create a High-Gloss Graduation Hat Icon Design

37. Create a Detailed Vault Icon in Photoshop

38. Handy Web 2.0 Icons In Photoshop

39. Adobe Photoshop CS3 Style Icons

40. How to Make a Folder Icon

41. How to Design Mini Icons

42. Create a Speed Gauge and Watch Icon in Photoshop

43. World Icon Tutorial

44. XP Style iPod Icon

45. Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design

46. Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

47. Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon

48. Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon

49. Custom Hard Drive Icon

50. LG LCD Monitor Icon

51. 3D Mp3 Player

52. Vista Error Icon

53. Photoshop website skype icon design in photoshop

54. Create an ESRB look a like icon

55. USB Stick Tutorial

56. Orb Site Icons Tutorial

57. Sleek Icon Design

58. Share This Icon

59. Carbon Style Icon

60. Thermometer Icon

61. How to Create A Swanky Coffee Table Icon in Photoshop

62. Design a Glossy Download Icon

63. How to Create a Moka Express Icon

64. How to Create a Van Icon in Photoshop

Christmas png icon 

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Christmas icon

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 Christmas system

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Christmas head

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Christmas tree

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30 Phenomenal Free Icon Sets for your iPhone – Pimp it Up

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Chalkwork

ThemeMyPhone

Comic iPhone Icons

Social Bookmark Icons

Deep: iPhone

SummerBoard

Web 2 Icons

iChad

Hand Draw iPhone Icons

iPhone icons

Aquaticus Socia

Aquaticus

Some beautiful iPhone icons

iPhone brazilian

ultra colors

CandyMilk V2

iSweet2

Apollo

Vixbona

Techube

iPhone Pack

IPhoneStyle Dock

Radiance

iTouch Home

Aluminium and White

Deep

iphonica

Circle

Black Neon Agua

iclypso

Vista Perfection

and finally…4 icon sets from Torx-Tevelopment

When a designer releases a free high quality icon set, we are all delighted and grateful. And when a designer releases an icon set accompanied by the .psd files we are ecstatic. An icon set may at times be limited to your requirements, and the chance to extend the icon set, with the use of a .psd file is always helpful.

Radium Icon PSDs

Flavours Icon Set PSDs

Proxal Icon Set v2 PSDs

9 .PSD Icons Vol. 1

5 .PSD Icons Vol. 2

6 .PSD Icons Vol. 3

6 .PSD Icons Vol. 4

Radium Neue PSDs

openPhone PSDs

Peely Icons PSDs

iKons 4 CS4 PSDs

E-maniacs RSS Icons PSDs

Setup Icon PSDs

Glossy Icons in 4 Colours PSDs

On-Stage Vector PSD Icon Set

Designers Icons PSDs

Medien Konvergence Icons PSDs

Minimalistic Icon Set

Second Free PSDs Icon Pack

PSD Fox

Folder Icon Template PSD

Simple Elegance – Folder Icon PSD

Preview Icon Template PSD

Talk icon PSD

Apple Mail PSD

Filetype Icon PSD

Bookmark Icon PSD

PSD-Icons

StormTrooper Icon PSD

Free PSD Avatar Icon Set

Bevel And Emboss – PSD Icons

Folder Icon PSD

Trendy Mail Icon PSD

iPod Touch PSD

iPhone 3G-3GS PSD

Airport Express PSD

Product Box PSD

PLASMA TV PSD

Hard Disk Icons PSDs

DVD Icon Template PSDs

Headphones PSD

Zune 30GB PSD

Magnifa Pro Icon PSDs

RIM Blackberry Icon PSD

XBOX 360 Icon PSD

Wall Phone PSD

Basketball Icon PSD

Lifebelt Icon PSD

iPhone Icon PSD

Ganato.com – 24 Psd Icon Sets

We use icons for our web designs, favicons and also Windows/Mac application. To create or edit an icon, you can use either powerful image editors like Photoshop, Paint.NET, premium icon editors, or just use a free icon editor.

Today, we are going to share 6 Useful Free Icon Editors where you can create and edit your icons for free. Some of them offer advanced features like extract icons from binary for free.

1. Greenfish Icon Editor Pro
Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a very powerful icon editor. It is portable, with <1.8MB after unzip. It supports layer, able to create animated cursors, offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow.

2. IconFX
IcoFX is a famous icon editor which comes with a lot of features. For example, it supports Vista icons with PNG compression, batch processing for handling multiple files. Besides these, IcoFX supports resolutions up to 256×256 and able to import/export images from bmp, jpg, gif, png, jp2.

3. Sib Icon Editor
Sib Icon Editor is a free icon utility for Windows. It allows to create and edit icon images and manage icon files and libraries. With Sib Icon Editor, you can create/edit PNG icons, create/manage icon libraries, paste images in various formats directly into icons, extract icons from Windows executable files and even convert Mac icons to Windows format.

4. Stardock IconDeveloper
IconDeveloper is a program that makes it very easy to create your own Windows icons. There are 2 different versions for IconDeveloper:- Free and Enhanced($19.95). The free version is sufficient for normal uses while the Enhanced version adds features to convert other images format to icons, change the color/hue/gamma of icons and batch convert/colorize entire folders of images to icons.

5. aaICO Icon Editor
aaICO Icon Editor is a free, simple but great icon editor for designer. It doesn’t have much features and the interface is simple. This application is suitable for icon designer that just want to do some simple editing jobs.

6. LiquidIcon XP
LiquidIcon XP is yet another free icon editor which offer standard set of image editing tools. It has an icon extractor where you can extract icons from exe or dll files. LiquidIcon XP also offers several image manipulation functions such as Flip, Rotate and Reflect.

We collect much free icons to downlowd,it’s usefull for designers,We will add day and day.help you like.

32px mania    

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34aL volume 3.2 SE

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49 hand drawn icons

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 Absque

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Alcohol

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 Animals

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Aquaticus

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ASP.NET icons

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August

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Aurora

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Austerity

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Bags and boxes

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Ball icons

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Basic Set

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BeOS

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Black and Blue

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Blogging

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Breakfast

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BWPX

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C9d

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Carpelinx

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Christmas

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Cinema

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Credit Cards

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crystalclear

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Dark Glass

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There are a growing number of excellent Photoshop tutorials creating for your own icons. Here are 40 of the best.

How to Create a Super Shiny Pencil Icon

Photoshop Film Clapper Logo Icon

LG LCD Monitor Icon

Wii Controller Icon

3D Mp3 Player Icon

Nice ‘n’ Simple Subscribe Badges

How to Make a Key Icon

Illustrate a Traffic Cone Icon in Photoshop

Creating a Cool Yellow Helmet Icon

Vista Error Icon

Design a Glossy Download Icon

Skype Icon Design in Photoshop

Handy Web 2.0 Icons in Photoshop

Photoshop Scissor Icon

Making a Photoshop Shield

How to Create Icons for Mac OS X

Create a Leopard “X” in Photoshop (video tutorial)

Adobe Photoshop CS3 Style Icons

Creating a Calendar Icon

USB Stick Icon

Making a Digital Watch Icon

Designing Glossy (Web 2.0) Badges

100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Seal/Badge

How to Design Mini Icons

Designing a Safety Icon

Create a Shiny Lock Icon Design

Photoshop Dish TV Icon

Photoshop Electronic Torch Light Icon

Photoshop Nike Sports Cap Icon

Photoshop Postal Packet Logo Icon

Creating an XP Style Monitor Icon

Create a High Gloss Graduation Hat Icon

Thermometer Icon

Orb Site Icons

Pyramid Icon Design

Mac Os X Mail Icon Style

Photoshop Silver Locket Icon

Photoshop Ancient Inkpot Logo Icon

Skype Buddy Icon

Vista Folder Icon

Icons are the basic requirement of any web related projects and good icons are like a treasure for web designers.

Being a successful creative web artist has a lot to do with the way you work. Sure, you can’t teach good design in some lessons or you can’t create icons for your daily needs, but it never hurts to pick a few free icons which are always available free to grub.

1. Function Icon Set

Function icon set is a great collection designed by Liam McKay. All icons are free for personal non-commercial use.

2. Web Development Icons

Icojoy has beautiful free icon sets including web development icon sets, pixel icon sets, rss icon sets & smiley icons.

This is the 4th part of their web development icon sets. Click here to find their all free icons.

Web development icons is a set with 60 free icons in web 2.0 style (24×24). These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

3. Monofactor

Monofactor is a beautiful set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons. You are completely free to edit, change and/or directly use the icons in your site and in any kind of your projects.

4. Aquaticus Social Icons

Aquaticus is a beautiful social icons set designed by Jwoloh (60×60, 48×48, 24×24, 16×16):

5. Simplicio

Simplicio is a simple looking but a quality & free icon set.

The set has 78 icons & the download package consists of ICO, PNG & AI files.

Let’s face it, most of us don’t create every single image and icon when we do web design. It is not because we can’t but merely because we’ve got better options. Kudos to many designers and their generosity, there are in fact a lot of really nice creative common images and icons on the Internet we can take advantage. All we need to know is – where to find them.

In this post, we want to bring to your attention some of the really great search engines that will come in handy when it comes to image and icon search. Full list after jump!

Image Search Engines

• EveryStockPhoto

  A search engine for free photos come from many sources and are license-specific. You can view a photo’s license by clicking on the license icon, below and left of photos.

  

• Xcavator

  Xcavator.net is a stock photo search portal for the creative community. You can quickly browse the way you think – visually – through millions of stock images.

  

• Ginipic

  Ginipic takes image search to a whole new level. Now you can search image search engines, photo sharing websites or your own local picture collections simultaneously.

  

• GazoPa

  GazoPa is a next generation similar image search engine in private beta. Users can search images from the web based on user’s own photo, drawings, images found on the web and keywords.

  

• FreeFoto

  FreeFoto.com is the largest collection of free photographs on the Internet. FreeFoto.com features exclusive images found nowhere else on the web with new pictures being added every week.

  

• TurboPhoto – Free Stock Images

  Browse and download 2,000 (3.4 GB) free stock images from 10 categories (view all thumbnails below). Stock images are in the public domain.

  

• Feelimage

  Feelimage is not only key words search. It is also equipped phrase search, that is images search engine ‘FeelPhrase®‘.
  It’s corresponding 127 colors, and has a technology that quantifies colors like ‘red’ ‘ blue’ in images.

  

• oSkope

  oSkope is a visual search assistant that lets you browse and organize items from Amazon, Ebay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo!Image Search and YouTube in an intuitive way.

  

• Incogna

  Incogna process the shape in every image and use this to build a large scale searchable visual index.

  

• Imagery

  Imagery search executes an keyword search and rollover results to get photo dimensions and options to open the source page or the image itself.

  

• ImageBase

  The ImageBase is a searchable image and text database of objects from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

  

• Pixolu

  An image search engine which lets you go deeper into the mechanism of image search and lets you find more relevant images using the image results it displays the first time you search.

  

• Picsearch

  Search the web for images. An image search service with more than 3,000,000,000 pictures.

  

• Picitup

  Picitup is a leading web 3.0 developer and provider of content based image search services.

  

• PicFog

  PicFog provides a real time image search.

  

• PicFindr

  PicFindr is a rich internet application (RIA) that helps you search several stock image and photo community sites simultaneously.

  

• Pixsy

  Pixsy powers video and image search experiences for some of the Internet’s leading brands including Pearson, Lycos, National Lampoon, Cooliris, BuddyTV, Infospace, and many others.

  

• Biomed-Search

  Search for images from biomedical articles. Currently over 1 Million images have been indexed. BioMed Seach indexes image captions along with the citations to these images.

  

• Bing Image Search

  An image search engine on Bing.

  

• Compfight

  A Flickr image search tool.

  

• Tiltomo

  Tiltomo, where you can play with our Visual Search code using two sample databases from flickr.

  

• Altavista Image Search

  Altavista image search tool.

  

• Photogen

  The source for quality, high-res FREE stock photos and images.

  

• Yahoo! Image Search

  Image search engine on Yahoo!

  

• Google Image Search

  A very powerful image search engine provided by Google.

  

• facesaerch

  Enter a name and search for faces!

  

• Multicolr

  With the Multicolr Search Lab, you can browse through 10 million of Flickr’s most ‘interesting’ Creative Commons images, and find ones that share the same colours.

  

• PicBrk

  A real time image search.

  

• PD Photo

  PDPhoto.org is a repository for public domain photos.

  

• Stock.XCHNG

  Stock.XCHNG lets you browse through the categories of our huge gallery containing over 350.000 quality stock photos by more than 30.000 photographers!

  

Icon Search Engines

• Challenger IconDB

  Challenger IconDB (Icon Database) is a database that contains icons of various sizes and keywords attached to them.

  

• ICONLOOK

  ICONlook.com is a place where to find your icons and offers a pretty handy interface for searching and downloading icon files.

  

• Icons-Search

  The Icons-Search is an Icon Search Engine that helps you to find quality icons available on the Internet. You can find icons for Windows Vista and XP, Macintosh, Linux, icons for Desktop, Software, Website, Mobile, Presentation, in sizes from 16×16 to 256×256 in PNG format and sizes from 16×16 to 128×128 in ICO format.

  

• Iconlet

  Iconlet is simple search engine for free icons, images. For every image user get information about author, image resolution, graphics format and license type.

  

• IconFinder

  Iconfinder provides high quality icons for webdesigners and developers in an easy and efficient way.

  

• IconSeeker

  The IconSeeker.com is an icon search engine on web, it contents about 50,000+ high quaility icons and each icon has PNG, ICO and ICNS formats for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.

  

• Icon Library

  

• EasyIconFinder

  EasyIconFinder is a new Icon Search Engine that helps you find quality icons now available simple by filling in a keyword !

  

• Free Icons Web

  Free Icons Web is where you can browse and download Over 15,000 high quality Free Icons for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.

  

• Very Icon

  The VeryIcom.com is a icon search engine, it contents over 20000 high quaility web icons in more than 1000 icon packs. Each Icon has serval file formats such as PNG, ICO, you can free browse and download for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems.

  

• IconsPedia

  Search and download free icons in PNG format. Arranged by categories, that include animals, food and phones.

  

Placing a Twitter “follow me” button on your website or blog is certainly one of the easiest way to convert visitors into Twitter followers. Designing a beautiful Twitter icon or badge can be challenging for those who know less about design, but the good news is – there are plenty of nice and high quality Twitter icons and badges available for free.

In this week’s post, we attempt to show you another 30 Sets of High Quality Twitter Icons associated with the blue bird.

40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons
via wefunction
Title says it all, all in transparent .png format.

The Social Bird icon set
via inspiredm
Released by Inspired Magazine, consisted the work of Frank Chimero, Jeffrey Bowman, Mills, Dyna Moe, Alex Mathers, Divya Manian, Matt Joyce and more!

TwitterFun Icons
via graphicleftovers
Collection contains Twitter notebook, Twitter blimp, Twitter lightbulb and Twitter monitor.

Happy Birds
via webdesign.fm
4 happy go lucky birds. Comes in PSD and PNG formats.

2 Cute Twitter Icons
via jeeremie
The zip contains two transparent PNG icons available in resolutions of 128×128 pixels, 256×256 and 512×512. The sources are in AI files (Adobe Illustrator CS3), PSD files and EPS file.

High Res Dark Denim Social Media Icons
via webtreats
108 high resolution icons, and the Twitter are just small parts of it.

Fat Twitters icon pack
via jankoatwarpspeed
Pack consist of two icons (those two sitting on the branch). Both icons come in five sizes: 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32.

Twitter Bird Icon Set
via productivedreams
6 icons, all in high quality transparent PNG format.

Twitter Eggs
via graphicleftovers
Available in PNG format in two sizes: 256 x 256 px and 128 x 128 px.

Cute Tweeters Icon Set
via Smashing Magazine
Eight icons. Available in 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 in formats of eps, psd and ai

Twitter Icon
via Diwa Fernandez
High resolution Twitter icon in PNG format.

Elvis, hero, meditation and sufer
via ebiene.de
4 x 126 Pixel PNG, 4 x 256 Pixel PNG, 1 x Preview, 1 x Adobe Illustrator

Twitter stamp icon
via Marco Kuiper
All icons are available in three different sizes: 32×32, 64×64 and 128×128 px, and Twitter icons are just part of it.

Twitter icon
via antonist

Twitter icon
via aleandros
Not exactly blue, but fairly high resolution and can color can be tweaked easily.

Twitter Icon
via marek.sotak
Twitter lblue bird with big fluffy wings.

Twitter Block Icons
via Fast Icons
Package consist of: Blue Bird, Blue Bird Follow, Blue Whale, Orange Whale.

Twitter Birds
via InaliBlast
Twitter blue bird in high resolution PNG format.

Twitter bird vector icon set
via Mau Russo
Comes in ai svg and png.

Twitter bird logo icon illustration
via Matt Hamm

Twitter / fail bird illustration
via ohmgee
A freelance illustration about twitter going mainstream.

Tweetenstein
via biggreenape

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet
via thedesignsuperhero
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Free Twitter Birds
via Luc Latulippe
Twenty-four Twitter icons in six different style, each in 4 different colours.

Moby Twitter Bird
via Mau Russo
Available in .ai and png.

Lovely Twitter Icons
via Catmy

Tweetbird Free Twitter Icon
via sneh.roy
The icon comes in 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixel sizes.

Tweeta Free Twitter Bird Icon Set
via littleboxofideas
Tweeta in her glamor queen avatar or in her cute and sexy twitter cheerleader avatar. Available in 64px, 128px, 256px and 512pix in png format.

Helvetwitca Vector Typographic Twitter
via Monika Halim
Helvetwitca is created using HelveticaNeue LT 45 Light for it’s body, HelveticaNeue for the foot and HelveticaNeue LT 95 Black for the smiling eye and mouth.

Tweeties
via Chris Wallace
Include four different .png image sets (32×32, 48×48, and 80×80) and original ai format.

Icons are everywhere in a website and their primary purpose of guiding and giving out information to visitors is a highly important one. Other than words themselves, these little graphics within a website that tells you how you can move to the next page, cancel a transaction, checkout the cart and the likes, basically the entire navigation. In a general sense, they act as symbols that allow easier and smoother communication between the webpage and the person interacting with it.

Depending on the web context, icons should be designed in a manner that are pleasing to the eyes, and most importantly, communicate what it is suppose to communicate. Here’s a showcase of 40 Free and Useful Icon Sets for your reference. Full list after jump.

Function Icon Set
128 Icons, they are only available in 48×48px. [via wefunction | Download]

Onebit Free Icon Set
A total of 50 icons. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times .[via Icojoy | Download]

Onebit Free Icon Set 2
Total of 30 icons, 48×48 in PNG format. [via Icojoy | Download]

WP WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set
The free download contains all 79 icons, sized at 256×256 pixels and available in both PNG and GIF formats. [via WooThemes | Download]

SEM Labs Web Blog Icon Pack
48x 48 icons for use on the front and back-end of the site released under the Creative Commons License. [via semlabs | Download]

Bright!
This 148-icon set contains all crisp-shaped icons that are designed for wide use in web applications, multimedia and software.[via iconeden | Download]

Milky
The Milky set contains more than 131 icons primarily colored in green, giving an eye-pleasant look and prominent display on either dark or bright backgrounds. [via iconeden | Download]

Iconza Icons
Collection of free icons that can be colored and reduced in size to your taste. [via Iconza| Download]

Basic Set
42 high quality icons for your web application, software or GUI design. Comes in various sizes of 64×64, 48×48, 32×32 & 16×16. [via prokofusha | Download]

MinIcons [via kyo-tux | Download]

Coquette Icons Set
Free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format. [via dryicons | Download]

Coquette Icons Set 2
Improved version of one of DryIcons’ most downloaded and most popular free icons sets. [via dryicons | Download]

Dropline Nuovo [Download]

Developers Icons
105 icons (32×32) for your toolbar or anything. Comes in .png, .ICO, .ICNS, .iContainer. [via Sekkyumu | Download]

Circular Icons A themed collection of 100+ 16×16 icons designed by Ben Gillbank, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. [via Pro Theme Design | Download]

Web Application Icons Set
20 icons designed specially for web applications, Free Web Application Icons Set is completely Free for both personal and commercial projects in any way you like. [via Webappers | Download]

Mini and Pixel Icons

If large and silky smooth icons aren’t the style you are looking for, how about simple, mini and pixelated one. Such icons can save significant amount of space for your website. Did we also mention their are light in filesize too?

Twotiny- Two icons setsfor websites and web applications. [Download]

Twotiny Expansion Set [Download]

Icons
A free set of over 250 18×18 pixel icons. Each icon was carefully created one pixel at a time using only whole value hexadecimal shades of grey. [via Paul Armstrong | Download]

Tango Icon Library
The Tango icon library contains a basic set of icons for the most common usage. To make it easier for a developer to find an appropriate icon for their application a number of aids are there to help. [via Tango | Download]

Mini Icons 2
113 10×10 greyscale icons in .gif format. [via brandspankingnew | Download]

Mini Pixel Icons
320 icons (available in various color theme) for general web design such as: blog themes, forums, eCommerce sites, and CMS application. [via Icondock | Download]

Web Social Icons
30 free web social icons, great for your website and blog. [via seanau | Download]

Microformats
These icons can be used to depict various microformats in webpages or on the desktop.

512 Pixel LED Icon Set
Designed for web designers/developers by Marcis Gasuns. [via Led24 | Download]

Iconjoy Free Web Development Icons- These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Set #1 [Download]

Set #4 [Download]

Greyscale
40 greyscale icons which each fit into a 34 x 34 pixel area. [via e-lusion | Download]

FamFamFam Icons
Silk [Download]

Mini
"Mini" is a set of 144 GIF icons available for free use for any purpose. [Download]

Flags
247 icons in GIF and PNG formats representing most countries in the world as small pixel icons. [Download]

Splashy Icons
470 splashy icons. [Download]

Bitcons
Mini-pixel icon set (16×16 pixels) containing 91 121 individual icons for various subjects. [via somerandomdude | Download]

Bullet Madness
A list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons uploaded by stylegala users.

Minimalist Pixel Icon Set
[via nclud | Download]

Fugue
2,225 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel). [via pinvoke | Download]

Sizcons
Comes in 2 different format: 16×16 version and a 12×12 version. [via randomjabber | Download]

Social Media Icon Pack
This icon set consists of 30 (16×16) finely crafted social media icons. They are free to use non-commercially. [via Komodo Media | Download]

Sweetie
2 sets of cute and clear icons to use in your nifty web application, respectively Sweetie BasePack and Sweetie WebCommunication. [via sublink]

Vaga
60, semi-transparent .png icons (16 x 16) ready to use and available for free download. [via tenbytwenty | Download]