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Some other icon sets (probably appeared on HN before, don't know where I got them from):

flags: https://www.gosquared.com/resources/flag-icons

user interface: https://www.gosquared.com/resources/165-vector-icons and http://adamwhitcroft.com/batch/

GoSquared has some excellent icon packs. You can view them all here: https://www.gosquared.com/resources/

My friend runs: http://www.glyphlibrary.com/, which is similar.

The icons the OP linked to are for games though which are VERY hard to find large good quality sets. The icons you are linking are great for general apps but probably not very useful for games.

These are always fun, but don't address the need that many game developers (ok, at least "I") have - the need for detailed backgrounds - preferably ones that can mesh well with each other. That can really help set the "world" for the player, and while a developer can often do their own sprite artwork, backgrounds tend to be an art to themselves.

I usually end up going to either one of my 3D tools or my photographs, and then playing with filters in Photoshop to get an artistic look that isn't too jarring.

see also: http://thenounproject.com/

Is there any way to download the noun project icons as a single zip file?

I'm not seeing any on the website as a guest but

    wget http://thenounproject.com/download/zipped/svg_{1..10000}.zip && unzip '*.zip' && zip nouns *.svg

should do the trick

Very nice set and great organization; reminds me a lot of The Noun Project. It would be great to see some more examples of other games/projects using these icons.

This icon set is really awesome. I'm planning on using them at some point for my game Tribal Hero ( http://tribalhero.com ). I wish they were colored but I'm probably going to use them as decals in flags instead.

I downloaded a few random icons in SVG format and noticed that Inkscape opens them exactly as they appear on the website, but Illustrator CS 6 does not maintain the proper stroke width.

Open the SVG file in Illustrator. Works great

Nice work. Would be better if they didn't have a background embedded, I can add that at display time.

Is there a cdn for these icon sets?

Would it be difficult to offer an additional PNG download zip that has the icons in white with a transparent background?

I personally use icones.pro, they have over 200 000 icones, and the quality is good.

(I don't own/operate this website)

I've been using this site for a while now. Good to see it getting a bit more attention.

[Check out http://www.functionn.in for more web resources to keep you functionn.in']

Game Icons is a massive icon pack containing a mighty 950+ icons which can be used for games or applications. The icons are categorized in various categories such as Animal, Weapon, Fire , Food, Action, Liquid, Symbol, Skull, Plant, Body, Heart, Tool, Arrow, Sea, Stone, Eye, Machine, Sword, Face, Chemical and more.

Dozens of new icons are added weekly and if you need a specific icon, you can even send a request by email. The icons are available in SVG and PNG formats, which can all be downloaded at once from the website.

License: CC 3.0 License

I get the feeling you're posting game-icons.net here just as an excuse to also link to your news site. I think the submitted link is fine, but also posting a link to your site seems borderline spam.

c'mon, it's not that bad, it's kind of a win-win situation, you get to know about things, I get some shameless promotion.

At http://www.functionn.in, we do not post things which have been posted all over the web. We post things which are AWESOME and FRESH. We do this daily. Check it out once, I'm sure you'll find it super useful :)

But if people are not fine with it, I'll stop. Just drop comment here people. I'll take it as a no-go :)

I'm pretty sure that at http://www.functionn.in, you like to post your link whenever and however possible. ;)

Good icons, though.

glad somebody caught onto that :P

What a coincidence. At http://www.example.com/, we like doing the exact same things. Everything we post is AWESOME and FRESH as well as being done daily. Check it out, it's super useful!

Everyone please reply and post your own website as well because obviously if everyone promoted themselves inside every discussion, it would add a ton of value and would totally not be spam.

Scratch that. Here's another thought: if you want to promote your own site, put some value-added content within your site and link to that. For example: how to resize, color, and use game-icons.net in cocos2d for iOS. That would make for a decent blog entry that does three things: (1) lets people know about game-icons.net; (2) demonstrates how to make practical use of the icons; and (3) links to your own site where you can do your self-promotion and gain subscribers (or whatever your goal is).

Thank you for those wise words! Will keep that in mind and try to improve the quality of the posts :)

Edit: Actually it's a brilliant suggestion. Thank you for this biot!

I was going to just walk away, but since you asked, here's my comment. laserDinosaur is absolutely correct. This post is just a link-spam in disguise. Checked your history: you are basically constantly spamming HN with links to some projects (not yours) just to insert your own comment later with a link to your site and a TL;DR-like description of the project added to make this link look less spammy. Working as a traffic generator? Maybe. But not cool at all, if you ask me.

seriously, somebody else would have just dropped a link to the blog. I just leave a comment with a summary of the project which I think might be useful for other people, e.g. license type and all.

However, since seems like the consensus that I should not post a link to the site, I will refrain from doing so, but will still contribute to HN wholeheartedly :)

+1, Hirvesh has become a blatant link spammer. He's careful to always combine the spam with some value (i.e., nice icons), but, still.

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