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Open-Source Icons

by davidcrow

The great news is that the number of choices for open source icons has continued to grow. There are a variety of icons sets for designers and developers to incorporate into their projects and applications.

  • Open Icon Library has over 5,000 icons that are available under open licenses.
  • Raphaël has a set of 104 icons licensed under the MIT license.
  • Jamie at 37signals has released an icon set under CC Univeral 1.0 and the WTFPL.
  • Crystal icon set is released under the LGPL
  • Nuvola free icon set is released under the LGPL 2.1.
  • Tango icon set continues to be a great set
  • Oxygen icon theme released under CC Share-A-Like 3.0 or LGPL
  • Boolean mini-icon set (16 x 16 pixel) released under CC Attribution 3.0
  • Project Icons are a set of 165 32px icons released under CC Attribution 3.0
  • PictICO is a set of 100 scalable vector icons released under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported.
  • Webappers has a great list of open source and free icon sets available.
  • Kirk Montgomery has a list from 2008 of free and open source icons.
  • Androidicons is a set of 30 PNG CC Attribution-Share-A-Like icons for Android developers
  • Glyphish is a set of 130 AI & PNG vector icons for iPhone & iPad developers under CC Attribution license
  • Mark Arteaga’s Metro Icons for Windows Phone 7

Steven Garrity has launched the Tango Project which is a set of icon style and naming guidelines for the Linux desktop. The project includes a great base set of icons licensed under the CC Share Alike

Brent Simmons post from May 2002 attrached a number of great comments for sources for open-source icons.

  • KDE-Look.org
  • Ximian Developer Art
  • Xicons though no guarrantee that the icons are open-source
  • famfamfam 16 pixel by 16 pixel icons released under the Creative Commons Attribution License

I’ve also posted about non-open-source but very inexpensive and professional icons.

Posted on May 28, 2004 Filed Under: Articles, Design Tagged With: Design, icon, mobile+icons, open-source, opensource

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