Top 9 Icon Resources
As a developer the design of an applications interface can often take a second peg to the function-guts. I always like to have a dig around a selection of good icon sets though to spruce up my interfaces and these are six of those resources:
Search Engines
Iconlet – One of the two major icon search engines. Has a good selection but like IconFinder relies on submissions of open source icons to stock its coffers.
Iconfinder -The second icon search engine but provides for tagging of icons for more refined searching.
Speciality
Ajax Loader Wizard – A simple wizard for building a funky ‘ajax’ loader animated gif.
Feed Icons – If you’ve ever seen the RSS feed icon dotted about and fancied one yourself. Okay so maybe you arne’t as sad as me but if you did you can rush to this site.
Icon Sets
Fast Icons – Really fast, like flying fast. I have no idea why but thats their name. Good selection and worth a look for a wide selection of free stock icons.
FamFamFam – Small but funkey collection of free icons.
Tango Icon Desktop – The Tango set is a huge source of quality SVG and PNG icon.
Crystal Wikimedia Icons – Opened to the world these are well used across a variety of places. Still very nice selection though.
DeviantArt – They do just about everything over at DA with it being the biggest art community on the net. I just wish I could contribute something as nice as the others on there.
So thats my list of nine icon sites – if anyone has any others they think are worth adding then let me know in the comments.
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