Icons
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Web
Small and usually clear icons, roughly sorted from most icons and easiest terms, to fewest icons and annoying terms.
License: cc-by
License: cc-by-sa
License: cc-by
- BrandSpankingNew Mini Icons 2, geared towards text editing, CMS, and some social webbing.
License: cc-by-sa
- Some smaller sets from BrandSpankingNew: Mini Icons Pack 1, Doc Type Icons 1 and Doctype Icons 2.
License: Unsure, but seems freely usable
- Minimalist Pixel Icon Set - small, clear, sort of random subjects
License: cc-by-sa
License: cc-sa
- Twotone white-on-single-color, fairly clean
License: Unsure, but seems freely usable
- Bitcons and Bitcons+, fairly clear red-and-white icons, various topics. Also Sanscons, the same set white-on-transparent so you can use them with any background using some CSS-fu.
License: Unsure, but apparentrly freely usable and 'be generous with the linkage'
- Drunkey love iconset is mostly CMS-focused, and has flags.
License: Unsure, but freely usable and 'just don't pass them off as your own'
- mIcons / Markup icons, some clean shaded monochrome icons.
License: unsure
- Tiny Little Icons / Milk and Green, 21 small, clean icons.
License: unsure, but looks freely usable
- 'My Web Control Icons', ten basic icons apparently made for a config utility
License: Public domain
- Feed Icons just that well known feed icon -- but in a lot of colors:P
License: 10 core icons for free, the rest for $12
- Mini Pixel Icons. Web-geared.
License: Link back, or pay $30
Apps / Desktop
Larger, shinier, perspectivier. Usable for web uses if you're into that sort of thing.
- Tango Desktop Project (cc)
- its gallery
- Art Libre set (for graphal apps)
License: LGPL
License: Unsure, but only minor conditions
License: GPL
License: GPL
License: GPL
License: LGPL
'Greyscale'
License: cc-by
Other / unsorted
Useful lists (that helped):
Animated 'busy' icons:
Icons from many sites, to help you brainstorm creating your own:
There are also a good number of stock icon sites where you can buy icons. For example:
Unsorted