Icons (including free for commercial use)(iconfinder.com)

168 pointsby torialhá 15 anos29 comments

Icons (including free for commercial use)

http://www.iconfinder.com/browse

12 comments

dchesthá 15 anos

Be careful: some icons that have free licenses actually use elements of images that are not under those licenses.

Examples:

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7395/128/finder_mac_wi... (XP wallpaper, listed under GPL license)

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7512/128/application_a... - Apple's icon

duskwuffhá 15 anos

Most of the icons in the "Futurosoft" set you've linked look like they were ripped from various sources (mostly from Windows 7, with a few from OS X). It looks like the set was syndicated from kde-look.org, and I've shot them a message about the situation.

iconfinderhá 15 anos

They were syndicated from Futuresoft - I will look them through and remove those from OS X and Windows. None of the icons were specifically from Win 7 since Futuresoft was released many years ago.

duskwuffhá 15 anos

Strange - looking at a lot of the icons, like the ones following, they certainly must have been designed to resemble Windows icons, but I can't find the exact icons they're modeled after. I'm really not sure where these would stand, as far as copyright goes - a number of them have enough resemblance to real Windows icons (or other trademarks) that you'd probably get legal grief for trying to use them in your own product, for instance.

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7043/128/aim_icon

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7121/128/sonic_icon

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7175/128/folder_window...

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7365/128/staroffice_ic...

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7394/128/users_windows...

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7563/128/lib_wine_icon

http://www.iconfinder.com/icondetails/7609/128/mp3_sound_ico...

bryanhhá 15 anos

I've used icon finder hundreds of times. It's great.

I am also a fan of the Fugue icon set (http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/) with over 3000 (!) super high quality icons. There is a licensing fee if you don't want to attribute but it is pretty affordable ($60).

simonsquiffhá 15 anos

The fugue set is great. I paid not so I didn't have to attribute but because the creator so clearly deserves it.

pzxchá 15 anos

Weird, it looks very much like a remake of Famfamfam's silk icon set. Compare: http://fugue-icons-src.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/all-preview.... to: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/previews/index_abc.p...

There are a lot of differences but there are also a lot of similarities.

charliefhá 15 anos

Posted by the founder a few months ago along with some Q&A:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829255

uxphá 15 anos

Awesome collection.

I've used the IconSweet2 set for various custom UITabBarItem icons in iOS applications. They fit amazingly well with the System Icons.

http://www.iconfinder.com/browse/iconset/iconsweets2/

ashamedlionhá 15 anos

There are some pretty nice icons there. My favorite are the credit card ones: http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset%3AThemeShock-cre...

jcromartiehá 15 anos

Are the icons in this set actually usable? http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:social

What are the legal issues there?

binarymaxhá 15 anos

It says at the top: License: Free for commercial use, but I also recommend going through the Readme to make absolutely sure.

jcromartiehá 15 anos

I mean in regards to them being mostly trademarks of other companies.

shastahá 15 anos

You can use them for whatever you want. If you run into any legal trouble, just tell 'em shasta from the internet said you could use them.

henrikschroderhá 15 anos

There's plenty of fair use cases for the trademarks of others, you're pretty much free to use them as long as you are talking about the products and companies the trademarks belong to, and not trying to abuse them for my own products.

As for why you would want to use someone else's reproductions of these trademarks instead of the official images, I have no idea...

jedsmithhá 15 anos

That entire set looks dangerous.

viriihá 15 anos

Iconfinder is great, yes. I also like Picons - royalty-free vector icons. Great for commercial projects. Cheap and good looking, check it out: http://picons.me

iconfinderhá 15 anos

Thanks!

Agreed, Picons are great.

morphixhá 15 anos

Thanks :)

rapindhá 15 anos

All you need for game design: http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:containers

Tichyhá 15 anos

3d Sokoban?

rapindhá 15 anos

http://www.oldmanmurray.com/features/39.html

jonespenhá 15 anos

Its also a great source for finding design metaphors, icon patterns etc.

iconfinderhá 15 anos

Thanks

petervandijckhá 15 anos

I was going to say: since when does stuff like this get on HN, but it's actually a pretty awesome site.

iconfinderhá 15 anos

Yeah, it's not the usual stuff for HN.

Thanks anyway.

melissamirandahá 15 anos

I love The Noun Project. They have the simplest, most easily recognizable set. Just wish they had all the social media ones as well: http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:nounproject

MatthewPhillipshá 15 anos

I'm in love with these icons... just simple and amazing. Will be using them in one of my projects.

texelhá 15 anos

And still, I can't find an icon for macvim that's not horrible.