I love icons. I love fonts as well, and it is difficult to say which one of the two I like the most!
Smashingmagazine came out with another nice post (as always) about using icons, which just reminded me again about how underutilized icons actually are and how much impact and interest they can add to a site. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/03/03/how-to-use-icons-to-support-content-in-web-design
Here are some links to some free icon resources:
http://www.freeiconsweb.com/ - contains about 15 000 icons in various categories
http://www.freeiconsdownload.com – also a large variety of free icons, divided into categories.
http://www.vistaicons.com/ - Nice variety - most of them in the large, glossy, Vista style.
http://dryicons.com/free-icons/ - Here are some nice icon sets that I haven’t seen in other places (for example, there is a lot of duplication between Freeiconsweb.com and Freeiconsdownload.com)
And then, remember the excellent icons from Everaldo, the Crystal icon set(s). These come in various variations. They have been in development for quite some time and you can therefore download various versions of them from various places.
www.everaldo.com/crystal/?action=downloads – here you can find the latest version called the Crystal Project. The older Crystal set icons have been overhauled and freshened up, so to speak.
http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_1/ There is a part 1, part 2, part 3, and part 4 in this series and have proved to be very popular.
http://www.iconeden.com/icon/bright-free-stock-iconset.html - another collection of 148 free icons. Well you can never have too many….Just note that this is a single file in .ai format
http://www.iconbulk.com/ - These are LOTS of small sets of icons, all focused on a specific theme, allowing you to download a wide and eclectic range of icons at a rate of about 5 or 10 in a set.
For more customized icons and smaller icons sets you can always do a search for ‘free vector icons’ in Google – you will be surprised to see how many resources turn up.
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