One major advantage of the web design galaxy is the existence of oh, so many open source digital archives for fonts, vectors, images, videos, etc. In our previous articles, we have listed some useful websites where you can find stock images and videos, as well as free fonts, while we never really explored where all the free icons hide. In this article, you may find referrals to some addresses you can knock on for free package of icons you’ll love.
Daniel Bruce designs are publicly available on Entypo, a lake of web fonts. More than 400 icons are available, under a CC share-alike license, and there are two sets available for your icons – the main set and a social set. Whatever you are designing online, Entypo has you covered.
The famous Ionic Framework, a top-notch open source digital infrastructure, is one of the easiest frameworks for building and distributing apps across all platforms. They have recently released their icons, creating a web font they call Ionicons. It is available on their website, completely free for download.
Font Awesome is considered one of the oldest big open source icon font. It grows and gets updated all the time, so it is always fresh and up-to-date with contemporary designer’s needs. You can scale all their icons, and even change colors, shadows, and background while maintaining them in CSS.
This pack specialized in tech-related brands, so it is most handy if you are dealing with tech logos and brands. Although someone might say that it is useless unless you are working on a tech-related project, Devicons, being completely free and quite broad, makes me encourage you to get creative and inspired by using these icons for something new and groundbreaking. This is how Devicons made the list.
Octicons is an icon pack being given to the world by GitHub. They made their own icon pack available for the crowd, for free, uploading loads of icons with simple symbols, to be used in various purposes. Because of their simplicity, these icons are likely to work on almost every interface.
Typicon is often recommended to the community as one of the best free sources for icons online. With their rounded shapes, these icons are simply adorable, making you wanna use them on whatever project you are currently working on. They will melt your heart.
Author: Nina Petrov