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70 Free High Resolution Icon Sets

Posted on 09. Sep, 2009 by Shawn Ramsey in Graphics

Icons are a great way to help users navigate within websites, programs and desktops. These small beautiful graphics allow us to move on to the next page, add other users as friends, change settings, add to our carts and many other useful tasks.

Thanks to many generous designers, there are plenty of free icons to be found throughout the web. Below is a collection focusing on some of the higher quality icons available for download.

In this post, 70 Free High Resolution Icon Sets, you will find just about any icon you could ever need for GUI’s or desktop customization.

Quartz Icon Pack | Andy Congea

Function Icon Set | Function

Milky | IconEden

The Milky set contains more than 131 icons primarily colored in green, giving an eye-pleasant look and prominent display on either dark or bright backgrounds.

Weby Icons | Iconspedia

Web Development Icons | Icojoy

Coquette Icons | dryicons

Web Application Icons Set | WebAppers

Social Media Icons | komodo media

This icon set consists of 30 (16×16) finely crafted social media icons.

Onebit | Icojoy

Icojoy.com presents Onebit free icon set of 50 icons. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

WP WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set | WooThemes

The free download contains all 79 icons, sized at 256×256 pixels and available in both PNG and GIF formats.

Basic Set | prokofusha

42 high quality icons for your web application, software or GUI design.

Black and Blue Icons | IconDrawer

Black&Blue Icons is a free icon set of Mac OS X application icons.

Bagg and Box | babasse

This pack contains 70 icons.

Simplistica | DryIcons

Our Simplistica icon set is very user friendly and has a glossy style. It consists of the most useful application and web icons. Icons come in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.

Black Pearl Files | 24charlie

Total of 39 PNG files in the compressed folder.

CS3 Work Folders | LeMarquis

In these modern days many people use a combination of different files on their hard drive, and with over 250 Gig and millions of files it’s getting harder to track you files back. So here is a little help for you to recognize your folders in the adobe style icons.

iVista Icon Pack 2 | VistaIcons

iVista Icon Pack 2 contains 92 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Alarm Icons, CDs & DVDs Icons, Devices Icons, Files Icons, Folder Icons, Network Icons, Other Icons, Start Menu Icons and more…

Hydroxygen Iconset | deviantdark

Includes 10,000+ Icons collected and designed by deviantdark.

Globe Icons | Bazuk-Eugen

3 icons with globe and navigation tools.

Icon Set | MannMitDerTarnjacke

Glossy Black Adobe PNG’s | bobakazooboy

Mac 3D Icon Set | LeMex

16 icons in 256×256 png.

Free Glossy Icons Series | Bluevacci

Glossy Guys | basstar

A few little glossy guys.

World Flag Icons PNG | Vathanx

A huge pack of cool glossy icon of all countries of the world!

Web Browser Icons | zen-nikki

Glossy Blacky | caeszer

Contains 11 PNG files exclusive 4 u!

Glossy Orange Orb Soc. Media | WebTreatsETC

108 Social Networking/ Social Media Icons.

Wooden Icons | hannes-hazelnut

35 Wooden Icons.

Elegant Monitor Icons | muffinzrock

15 Free High Resolution Web Stock Icons | snap2objects

15 Web stock Icons in High Resolution for your web interfaces. The pack comes in .ico, .png and layared .psd in 6 sizes from the huge 512px to the tiny 16px.

The Shield Icon Packet | basstar

Summer Collection – PNG | Benjigarner

Contains 74 green and sunny icons in PNG format.

Windows 7 RC1 Fullsize PNG’s | SpewBoy

These are the icons from Windows 7 RC1 (build 7100). I have extracted every single 256×256 icon on my Windows system that I’ve had access to. I’ve scoured every icon to make sure there are no duplicates so these 554 icons should be 100% unique. I also examined each one to make sure it was of high quality and removed any smaller icons (anything bellow 256×256).  All credit goes to Microsoft for the icons.

170 Dock Icons | adrenn

170 icons – png 256 x 256

23 .PNG Vista Style Icons | Wearwolfaa

In the .ZIP file you’ll find 23 Vista Style Icons.

Carbon Gloss | skm-industries

A set of over 90 original dock icons in .png format.

Albook Extended Sepia 710 PNG | StopDreaming

710 albook Sepia png!

Starbucks Coffee Icons | benedik

Package contains icons in PNG and .icns file formats.

Capital – Icon Suite | Capital18

Includes: 99 Png’s at a size of 128 x 128.

Choose Your Sport Icons | TPDKCasimir

8 icons about sport areas.

.PNG format to 256×256 pixels. .ICO format to 128×128 pixels.

I added a png bonus format, up to 512×512 pixels.

Icons 2 | lecoupdulapin

Autumn Breeze Icons | da-flow

Initialy done in Illustrator.  Reworked pixel per pixel to optimize every format in Axialis IconWorkshop.

Keynote Objects | iPresentee

The package combines 100 easy to use and attractive objects. The background of all objects is transparent and can be used on any colored background. Each object can be changed in size, rotated, increased or decreased in opacity, fitted with shadows or even overlapped with one another to create extra effects. Keynote Objects are compatible with Keynote, iWeb, Pages, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word. Please note that these are sample objects so they are reduced in size and quality.

Hearts | Buzuk-Eugen

Envelope Icon Set | Phil Earley

This set features a variety of different envelopes and folders of different sizes which we foresee being extremely useful for many print and web design projects. We hope you love this vector art free download as much as we do, it has to be one of our favorite icon set giveaways to date!

Back in Time Dock Icons | Cyberella74

Back in Time Dock Icons Set created for free use.  Those icons where inspired by the opening of The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece.  Now for MacOs X, and Windows Vista.  PNG files included.

Archigraphs Cars Icons | Cyberella74

Cars Dock Icons created for free use.  Now for MacOs X, and Windows Vista.  PNG files included.

Twitter Icons | Archigraphs

Boxes | adam3k

Set of 9 box themed folder PNGs (500 x 500 px).

Quark |  jqubit

A 4-color set of sleek, polaroid-style image icons for your computer in both png and ico. Check out the other q u a r k iconsets as well!

Pink Icon Pack | NativeGorilla1

iPhone PNGs | borncold

50 iPhone-like icons with 256×256px. + Calendar Docklet Skin.  PSD included!

Kasual Set | OniRespect

Antique Icons | paradis24434

Old Papers | WickedDesktop

Its a small collection with all books and papers I find all over the internet..made them as PNGs so you can use on your dock icons or desktop x..etc….

Candied Apples | MouseRunner

9 different Apple icons and resource files for personal use or to use in your projects.

Massive Media Icons – Win | MugenB16

Coca-Cola Family | BlueMalboro

3D Cartoon Icons Pack II | deleket

Grzanka’s Icons Nr 1 | iconbest

Made in Adobe Photoshop using vector masks – fully resizeable! 128×128 pixels PNG’s for download.

The Office Collection | Juliewiens

154 Icons.  PNG, Mac, and Windows formats.  256 X 256

Rounder_png | vicing

Mac Mail Stamp Icons | ZorgZ

MS Office Icons with Alcohol | nori-asam

Guage DX | apathae

3D Icons Part 2 | Shek0101

Folder Icons Pack | deleket

Some folder and trash can icons to match the 3D cartoon style. 50 icons for PC and MAC.

Archigraphs Apples Dock Icons | Cyberella74

Candy Shop Dock Icons created for free use.  Now for MacOs X and Windows Vista. PNG files included.

iPhone Icons | judge

Some iPhone icons. Includes blanks of some of them, like the weather, timer, SMS etc.

Note: Some of the icons above are intended for personal use only.  Please respect the designers wishes when using their icons.

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