So you’ve just designed a killer iHTML web application and you’re looking to add some professional looking touches to it. One of the most challenging task is finding good icons for your Graphical User Interfaces. I managed to recently stumbled upon a couple of great sources for Free icon sets and those at a reasonable price.
Icon Dock – offers a set of Free Mini Pixel Icons that are pleasing to the eye. The package includes 320 icons (available in various color theme) for general web design such as: blog themes, forums, eCommerce sites, and CMS application. They are designed at 14×14px with transparent background, which is suitable for footer or sidebar navigation buttons. They also offer other Free icons and Professional looking icons set that are at a reasonable price.
http://icondock.com/free/mini-pixel-icons
Icon Pot – I discovered this site from one of the comments posted on Icon Dock. Links to Free icon collections on the web. You can even follow Icon Pot on Twitter or subscribe to their RSS to get updated when new icon sets are posted.
Tango Icon Library – with 250+ icons for use in web and desktop applications. Truly Amazing these guys exists to to help create a consistent graphical user interface experience for free and Open Source software. What’s interesting is the amount of thought and work going into this project such visual metaphor descriptions (http://tango.freedesktop.org/Icon_Metaphors).
Dread-Simple Social Media Icons
If you have jumped on the bandwagon of social Networking support with your iHTML applications or websites be certain to check out this collection.
Hope you find some of these icons useful, enjoy.
