Category Archive: Free Icons
August 9, 2010 - 25 CommentsCSS,Free Icons,Graphic Design,Web Design
As we like to do every few months, in this article you will find a comprehensive round-up of the best and freshest icon sets for web designers and developer. As well as the popular icon categories – general purpose developer sets, mini-pixel sets, pictograms and social media and service icon sets – we have also [...]
August 4, 2010 - 23 CommentsFree Icons
A country flag image could be used for any number of reasons, perhaps the most popular method would be on a web site which allows the user to either select the language of their choice or to access the site-version dedicated to their country. The problem is that there are many, many sites were you [...]
July 19, 2010 - 4 CommentsFree Icons,Graphic Design,Web Design
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our [...]
July 6, 2010 - 27 CommentsFree Icons
The two beautiful social media icon sets we have on offer today have been designed by the talented Helen Gizi, from pinkmoustache.com, exclusively for the readers of Speckyboy Design Magazine. Both of the icon sets contain 28 icons that cover all of the major social media services and applications, they are all in .PNG format [...]
June 20, 2010 - 25 CommentsFree Icons,Icon Design,Web Design
When choosing an icon-set for your web design or application, you not only need to find a set that perfectly conveys complex functions in a simple and visually appealing way, they also need to meet a certain unifying criteria, relaying to the user that the icons are related to each other in some way. Its [...]
June 17, 2010 - 30 CommentsFree Icons,Top 10,Web Design
Finding the perfect icon for any design project can be very difficult, especially when you have to to sift through the thousands upon thousands off icon-sets that are freely available. Not only will this waste you a huge amount of productive time, actually finding the icon you need is pretty darn close to being impossible.
June 14, 2010 - 11 CommentsFree Icons,Graphic Design,Web Design
All of the premium icon sets below have been designed for web UI and application designers, with there prices ranging from as low as $5 all the way up to the super-premium price of $350, and all have been sourced from the best designers the design community as to offer. You would give your right [...]
May 14, 2010 - 38 CommentsFree Icons,Icon Design,Mobile,Web Apps,Web Design
We simply love creative icon design, we really really do. As such in this post we have collected a rich list of 30 fresh icon sets specifically for designers and developers.
You will find some mini icons, pictograms, wireframe icons, ecommerce icons, toolbar icons, mobile app icons… the list goes on and on.
Free Icons,Icon Design,Popular,Web Design
A small but often overlooked aspect of most ecommerce sites designs are the flat and bland payment options icons (Visa, Mastercard, Paypal…). From a usability standpoint the icons do need to be instantly recognized by the user, and you can understand why designers opt to use standard icon designs rather than being a little bit [...]
April 14, 2010 - 31 CommentsFree Icons,Graphic Design,Icon Design,Web Design
This is an update on a post we published last year entitled 50 Social Service and Bookmarking Icon Sets for Bloggers, an enormous collection of only the best social icon-sets. Today’s update is no different, all of the icons are fresh, of the highest design quality and, as you will see, completely original and creative. [...]
March 8, 2010 - 56 CommentsFree Icons,Mobile,Web Apps,Web Design
The expectation on the apps UI design is demanding. The design has to not only be consistent with whichever mobile OS you are developing for, it also has to be distinctive enough to be unique. And yes, we do love a well designed app. In this post we are sharing 14 free mobile application development icon sets.
February 17, 2010 - 71 CommentsFree Icons
The Speckyboy Payment Method iconset is a collection of popular payment icons, that include: Mastercard, Visa, Paypal, Google Checkout, Check Payment and even icons for Wire-Transfers.
Not only do these icons look awesome, they are also very useful and versatile (there are eight different sizes that range from 12px all the way up to 512px).
Free Icons
The Grass Textured Social Icon Set has been created by Richie Thimmaiah, from RichWorks exclusively for Speckyboy Design Magazine readers and are free to use for both your personal and commercial projects but may not be modified, sold or redistributed.
January 27, 2010 - 10 CommentsFree Icons
Last month we published , via Iconshock, an amazing icon set called Political Characters, a selection humorous caricatures of famous world political figures – that was volume 1, and today we have the opportunity to share volume 2.
January 21, 2010 - 47 CommentsFree Icons,Web Design
In this Go Green! Web Icon Set, you will find 108 different icons you can use for your website, blog or your application. The set comes with eCommerce icons, social media, computer accessories, multimedia and a hell of a lot more! These icons are available in 64 x 64 px and in transparent .png formats for which you can easily change the hues to match your needs.
December 21, 2009 - 48 CommentsFree Icons,Popular,Web Design
The demand for development icons is huge, and thankfully this year has been a fairly productive year with new icon sets being freely released every other week. As you will see from the list below, they are all of high quality, some do have more flexibility than the others, and some do have limited numbers and options, but all are beautifully designed.
Anyway, all of the icons I have listed below have been designed specifically for web design, web development, web applications and blogging. And I am sure you will agree, they are amazing.
Free Icons
As an added bonus, Iconshock, designers of these amazing icons, have allowed us to publish another free icon set for our readers. This time around the icons are humorous caricatures of famous world political figures.
I hope you enjoy them.











