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Icons for your web apps

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55 pointscoderdude10 comments

All well and good, but this line makes me stop cold: "Please check the license specified by each author of an icon pack before using them."

I'd love to see a website that could track these licenses and let me filter on them: free, free with attribution, free for non-commercial, for-purchase, etc.

Sort of like http://sxc.hu, I suppose, but strictly for icons.

http://www.iconfinder.com/ allows you to filter on commercial use.

Try iconlet (CC, GPL, Free): http://iconlet.com/advancedsearch

I highly recommend iconfinder.com Simply awesome resource and lets you filter by license.

I'd take a set of 250 good icons over 2400 random ones, any day. http://iconkits.com/ - http://stockicons.com/

Helveticons, at http://helveticons.ch are incredibly well thought out icons, which I use everywhere.

Their minimalism is their strength.

Well worth the money.

How on earth did this make the front page? This is hardly the first or best meta-collection of icons. A lot of the sets here are too inconsistent, amateur, cutesy, or small to be of much use. And any round-up of free icons that skips Silk is irresponsible.

Why does it have to be a web app? I've used some of these for the interface in my game engine...

Not sure about a game engine (editor?) but one has to be a lot more careful with using stock icons for a typical desktop app than they would with a web app.

It's easier to retrofit an icon set into a website (where you’re expected to come up with your own aesthetic) than it is to retrofit it in a desktop app (where you’re expected to follow certain metaphors and not deviate your appearance too much from the rest of the system).

I’ve been seeing a lot more OSX apps lately use the icons from Icon Drawer (http://www.icondrawer.com/). While they look fabulous in their own right, IMHO they do not fit with the rest of the aesthetics set by OSX (look at the Concentrate and CallitADay apps for examples).

Once again, the amazing contributions of designers like these help web apps push forward on functionality and experience without worrying about small yet very important and time consuming details like creating good looking icons.

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