50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008
- By Noupe Editorial Team
- Posted in Freebie, Icons
- 195 comments
Icons is everywhere on the web. In most modern designs it is used to not only complete our design but also to attract the user’s eye. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs and decorate their desktop as well. Today we’re going to take a look at 50 most beautiful icon sets we’ve found over the year 2008.
Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!
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Free Icon Sets
1. OldSchool Icon Set
2. Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
3. Milky icon set
4. Archigraphs Porcelain Icons
5. I-KID ICONS FOR IPHONE
6. Socialize Icons
This free icons set contains all the most popular social icons, placed inside a sticker, making them easy to use in all kinds of projects. Although initially intended to be used by bloggers, these icons go beyond that and can be used in almost any website. This free icon set contains 12 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.
7. Distortion Icons
Unique, good looking and useful grungy sticker icon set with background in brick red color and white.
8. Merry Christmas Icons
These snowing free icons contain the most recognizable Christmas items. Bring that unique feeling that only snow brings to your websites and blogs. The “Merry Christmas” free icons set contains 12 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.
9. Coquette Icons
This playful free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. These free icons flirt with style! “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.
10. Turqua 3d Isometric Vector Icon Pack
A full set of 30 3d isometric vector icons. The icons are in both editable Illustrator 8 EPS and SVG formats.
11. Fugue Icons
1000 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel).
12. Free Glossy Blogging Icons Set for Bloggers
There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format.
13. Free Glossy Blogging Icons Set for Bloggers
128 glossy Icons available in 48×48px. Some of the main Social Media Icons are included such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter & Many more…
14. Finance and Applications Icon Set
This set contains 59 raster and vector icons, designed by Icon Eden. The set includes icons in .png, .icns and .ico-formats. An .EPS vector file is available as well.
15. Liquidicity
16. Free Vector Icon Set 1
The first part of the set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons.
17. Web browsers icon set
18. Asp.net Icons
Here is a site offering a full set of professionally designed icons for web applications for free.
19.Cult-foo icon set
Set of 50 icons at .PNG format for public usage.
20. Validation Icon Set
Free Validation “w3c” Icons to download and use.
21. Web 2.0rigami
15 origami icons in a variety of sizes in transparent pngs, and the PSD and EPS files.
22. Circular Icons
Circular is a themed collection of 100+ 16×16 icons. The icons are available as a zip download of alpha transparent png’s.
23. Phuzion
This pack contains 150 icons in total which look best in their original size (256x256px).
24. Free web development icons
Icojoy team’s new 24×24 free icon set in web 2.0 style
25. Simplicio
The set contains 78 free icons in .png and .ico including AI which can be useful for both corporate and personal setting.
26. Web 2 Icons
23 freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks and Networks for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares.
27. DSLR lens Icon
28. Pirates Theme icon collection
29. Feed Me Animals
A Free RSS Feed Vector Icon Set.
30. Ecommerce Icons
32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file.
31. Practika
A free set of 11 practical and useful high-quality icons.
32. Website Icons
33. Glossy Member Icons
34. Aeon
35. RSS feed
36. Nice ‘n’ Simple Subscribe Badges
37. DESIGN for: psdbox.pl
38. Drop Box Icon
39. Green and blue
Desktop & Dock Icons
40. Onibari Leopard Made
41. Carbon Gloss
A set of over 90 original dock icons in .png format. Compatible with your Mac or PC, and virtually all dock applications that use .png files.
42. De Freu. -Icon Pack
41 PNG and ICO Fileformat Icons + Matching Wallpaper.
43. iMod for Dock
149 icons for your dock
44. KIDAUBIS CHINESE WIND ICON
45. iLeopard Icon Pack SE
46. Qure for Adobe Creative Suite
47. Colorabo
48. ZeroOne
49. Made Of Wood
50. Paper Clip
Paddy, 09 December 2008
Great list!
Thanks for featuring my origami icons :)
Some quality icon sets there. Loving the wooden folders!
esranull, 01 December 2009
yaaaa
rivan gadgets, 19 February 2010
wah… banyak bgt tuh… bisa sedot
the_guv, 11 January 2010
@Paddy .. those origanis are yours huh .. tempted to use those very much, beauts, Sir, thank you.
blasterous, 14 April 2010
Great list indeed. We’re working on some mobile apps and might model some of the icons after some of these.
JOSITO, 23 May 2010
wonderfuls your origami icons. Thx
speed, 09 December 2008
Wow amazing, thanks a lot!
Happy Holidays
Alexandre Jourdain, 09 December 2008
Great post
i will add it in the icon section of my site : http://www.webdesignerheaven.com
Ahmet Burak Bal, 09 December 2008
Thanks for your this work.
Raymond Selda, 09 December 2008
Oh my goodness! Can’t believe that they’re free! Thank you for compiling this!
Wes Rice, 09 December 2008
So #4 and #14 appear to be the same set.
Paul0v2, 09 December 2008
Great selections, very good work on the post I really appreciate it, thank you. I’ll definitely download some icons.
(#29 nd #30 got the same name)
insicdesigns, 09 December 2008
nice. love the icons
Casey Hald, 09 December 2008
Great post! *Social Bookmarked*
Neo, 09 December 2008
Great post.
Honour Chick, 10 December 2008
awesome collection. couldn’t find a better compilation.
techzoneX, 10 December 2008
This is really a wonderful and cool collection. Thanks.
SpaceCowboy, 10 December 2008
Damn they are awesome. Some talented and amazing artists. I would mention my favourite but there are so many!
Mike Cherish, 10 December 2008
Really not impressed. Probably the worst icons collection on Noupe so far.
Baris, 10 December 2008
awesome collections!
Thank you very much :)
Vinadeal, 10 December 2008
Great work. Thanks a lot
yosrysabry, 10 December 2008
great collection .. thanks a lot
DannY, 18 August 2010
awesome collection damn coooolll….
DK, 10 December 2008
Great collection. Love it!!
Thanks
Abdo, 10 December 2008
Great collection, good hunt for a bookmark ;)
jorge, 10 December 2008
Oxygen kde4 not here?
ashvin, 10 December 2008
nice collection
thanks
EB, 10 December 2008
Great post. Icon set 21. Web 2.0rigami the flickr icon looks like f*ckr lol
Ryan, 10 December 2008
Icons maketh the website! And these ones are great!
MOON, 10 December 2008
Great work Thanks a lot
Dan Denney, 10 December 2008
Wow, thank you for putting this together. Great year for icons!
Jason Cain, 10 December 2008
Very impressive! As a developer, I look at the creativity of designers and artists, and I am truly amazed. May hat is off to all of you. Great Job!
Ahmad, 10 December 2008
Can’t wait to start with my next project to use some of these bad boys, or maybe just get a blog icon makeover and use them, thanx anyways for your work.
Flash Buddy, 10 December 2008
I’m gonna bookmark it so don’t change the url!!!
John Tolbert, 10 December 2008
Wow, absolutely fabulous Icon sets!
jess
http://www.privacy-tools.at.tc
Leerhuelle, 10 December 2008
Nice collection of great work. the wodden folders look are impressing.
Especially for the year 2008, the EEE icon set should not be missed out.
you may add it, if u want.
http://www.iconspedia.com/pack/asus-eeepc-1743/
Srinin, 10 December 2008
Nice set. I’m gonna use some! tnx!
Orchida, 10 December 2008
Thanks for featuring DryIcons with 5 different icon sets!
Regards!
Eddie, 10 December 2008
Thanks I design websites for small business, this will be very helpful.
Chip, 10 December 2008
Wow I love the #3 and the one who made it. Thanks a lot for this list.
Destinos Turisticos, 10 December 2008
Good Job.. Thanks!!
heihachi, 10 December 2008
nice collection
thanks
Timothy, 10 December 2008
Wow. Great list! Thanks!
lanospace, 10 December 2008
wow… very nice icon
Jeromy, 10 December 2008
Perfect!!!
Thank you for this list.
A must have collection for the budding blogger or web developer. Noupe, how do you keep finding such great stuff?
Cheers,
Jeromy (AKA Hillbilly)
Wilky, 10 December 2008
thaks for it!
CJ, 10 December 2008
Awesome list.
JuanGómez, 10 December 2008
Hi, thanks for the feature! :D
Cyberella, 10 December 2008
Thank you for add my icons to the top 50! I am honored!
jimmy, 10 December 2008
By far the best collection I’ve seen. Thank you! Luckily I haven’t started designing my own yet, I’ll just use these. Bookmarked! I’ve been also meaning to say I love your tagline.
Bangbouh Stock, 10 December 2008
I love the first retro set. Great collection. Thanks!
some guy, 10 December 2008
what a terrible list. i’ve seen better icons than what you have listed here. much, much better ones.
Anonymous, 10 December 2008
This was a totally excellent article. Found lots of cool icons I’ll be checking out
plural nouns do not use singular verbs, 10 December 2008
ICONS IS EVERYWHERE
armand, 10 December 2008
awesome! good collection!
Franck, 10 December 2008
Nice job ;)
Are we authorized to use them for commercial purposes ?
Rahul, 10 December 2008
No doubt that these are one of the best icons I’ve also found in this year. Thanks for other icons which I’d not found.
Shreemani, 10 December 2008
Hello plz do correct the “/a” in #11.
Branson, 10 December 2008
Very diverse list of icons! Its nice to see some great looking ecommerce icons.
Bilal Haider, 11 December 2008
Thats what i was looking for. My friend sent me this link. Really nice and wealthy post. Helped me a lot. As a developer i’ll use these icons in ma application. Great! Artistic work by some cool people. Keep it up.
kiran, 11 December 2008
Great Collection.Thank you.
Wil, 11 December 2008
Great icons!! I’am building a linux distro and these icons will be useful.
Tanks!!
Giovanni, 11 December 2008
I agree, this is the best set of icons for 2008 I have seen.
Urbanimpulse, 11 December 2008
This should be a definite addition to the list:
http://min.frexy.com/article/milky_a_free_vector_icon_set_part_1/
Neo_Wesker, 11 December 2008
OMG! Inspirating me!
Good 08′ icon selection set!
Happy holidays everyone!
Cory, 11 December 2008
Love the Origami icon set.
Patareco, 11 December 2008
I looove icon mashups! Nice Work!
Liam McKay, 11 December 2008
Wow so many amazing Icons. * You’ve mixed up the name on the function icon set :P
Vieclam, 11 December 2008
Really cool collections,
Thanks
Janckos, 11 December 2008
gracias por la recopilacion!.
Carol Deckert, 11 December 2008
Thank you so much for compiling this wonderful list – I cannot believe so much is offered for free. Just what I needed to add to some of my blog posts to brighten them up!
Happy Netweaving,
Carol Deckert
Networking Coach
Dan, 12 December 2008
Hi,
Thanks for the resource. You can never have too many icon sets!
ronmieljose, 12 December 2008
De Freu. -Icon Pack seems the best for a professional blog.
Thank you
Ryan Edgell, 12 December 2008
Excellent list of icons. These are great!
maxim, 14 December 2008
Fantastic collections!
Turqua 3d Isometric Vector Icon Pack – BEST!
Nikolas, 14 December 2008
nice icon selection – you can enjoy nearly all of them
André, 14 December 2008
Damn good icon summary, thanks :)
Arjen, 14 December 2008
very cool, thanks for sharing this awesome collection!
I love the “Origami” icons, as they are so different!
icoland, 15 December 2008
Great icons! Free hand-drawn set is our favorite. We (icoland team) just launched a new website, will work hard and hopefully hit the list of 2009 ;)
Jamis, 15 December 2008
Excellent list of icons. These are great!!
gkriv, 15 December 2008
Great collection of icons.
Eligio, 15 December 2008
thank you for compiling and sharing this wonderful sets of icon. cool designs…
Erik, 16 December 2008
These icons look really fabulous. no wonder you received a heavy load of diggs.
Probably a hard time for your server to keep up with all the traffic.
xarly1, 16 December 2008
nice see it :]
Sandie Sørensen, 17 December 2008
Some amazing Icon Sets are missing? Let us know!- You ask.
YES!
But the icon set I’m talking about hasn’t been made – yet!
I dare anyone out there to make an icon-set for creative designers. The set should include the following icons:
- Camera (For: Photographers)
- Acryllic Brush (For: Painters)
- Oil Brush (For: Painters)
- Aquarelle Brush (For: Painters)
- Crayon (For: Crayon Artists)
- Pencil (For: Traditional Drawing)
- Markers (For: Artists who use markers)
- Ink (For. Ink-artists)
- Photoshop (For: Artists who use Photoshop)
- Illustrator (For: Artists who use Illustrator)
- Flash (For: Artists who use Flash)
- Dreamweaver (For: webdesigners who use Dreamweaver)
Others?
Perhaps also icons for the categories:
logodesign, print-layouts and so on…
Pako, 17 December 2008
LOL, look at #21, bottom right. It seems to say “Fuckr” instead of “Flickr”.
lokki, 17 December 2008
I looove icon mashups! Nice Work!!!
lokki, 17 December 2008
Great list!!!!!! thanks!!!!
dr.emi, 17 December 2008
impressive icons, I very love it …
Paul, 18 December 2008
that “flickr” icon in the origami set does not read flickr…more like..something else. lol.
Dada, 18 December 2008
Cool icons.
Slam, 20 December 2008
hey thank you, i’ve been share this information to my friends in my blog
Erik, 20 December 2008
Great list!!!!!! thanks!!!!!!
Dainis Graveris, 21 December 2008
very eye catching list You’ve got! bookmarking!
ebony, 22 December 2008
i like all of th em they are cute.
Emily, 24 December 2008
great site here, that for the info…
hope there are more
serdar, 24 December 2008
thanks for icons
inwater, 25 December 2008
hx… very usefull.. awesome…
eds, 29 December 2008
thank you so much
Vaibhav Gupta, 31 December 2008
Thx for Gr8 help!
Melvin Walls, 31 December 2008
Thanks for the colection most def going to download. their all very beautiful
alahsa.cc, 01 January 2009
very hot very nice
Thanks..
webmaster, 02 January 2009
reallly nice archive!….
designburger, 05 January 2009
Great Collection! But 11th has wrong title. Thanks.
Dedushka, 06 January 2009
Thanks for the collection! “Feed me animals” is really great one :).
Marshalls Block Paving, 08 January 2009
I have got to agree they are the 50 most beautiful icon sets I have seen
Martina, 12 January 2009
Well done to all icons.
Martina
tester, 13 January 2009
This is cool blog more on technology.
Sevgi, 16 January 2009
thanx for admin
kie, 17 January 2009
Wicked Post… You know your nice looking / worthy Icons – this is a one stop shop – everything I’ll ever need, well for the next couple of year’s anyway :) taaah
Sumit, 27 January 2009
great resources!!!!
Jacob, 29 January 2009
Fantastic resource. I’m very happy to have found this post. I’m using some of the icons on my site now.
duzce, 23 November 2009
great resources!!!!
jenny, 30 January 2009
Thank you for posting this free stuff! it´s so usefull and a must have:-)
julien, 31 January 2009
Thanks for the sharing !!
aoeking2, 03 February 2009
lovely\!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
Tavo, 05 February 2009
Che muchas garcias, so una masa estos iconos. Son los mejores que vi hasta ahora.
Nos estamos viendo,… y si no nos vemos nos tanteamos. juaj!!
ngan hang, 05 February 2009
Really beautiful icon sets.
Just look at a lot of good comment here to know that.
thanks
Bill Adam, 13 October 2009
nice collections and i am going to use social buttons for my blog
free style, 14 October 2009
beautiful !
Rakesh, 21 October 2009
Very Very Very Good Collection.
thank you for sharing this Imagine sets of icon.
Dedektif, 29 October 2009
good nice collection. Tanks.
kalonje, 08 November 2009
asante.
Martin, 08 November 2009
Nice Icon collection..!
Jasmine, 08 November 2009
aw beautiful icon, i like it
Laura Stafford, 30 November 2009
Awesome list. Very helpful. Thanks!
Infiniti Magazine, 07 December 2009
Great list, very useful. Keep the good stuff coming guys. I like what Noupe produces!
Leandro, 09 January 2010
Oh! Very Good, thanks!
Constantine, 23 January 2010
Beautiful icon sets.
thank you so much.
Marie, 04 February 2010
Fabulous compilation — thanks for sharing!
bayu, 06 February 2010
yosh! this is what i looking for. thanks for share
A.D.K., 16 February 2010
Awesome collection of icons thanks :)
Samuel Carlson, 16 February 2010
absolutely love the origami icon set!
Be sure to check out the Top 10 Ways to Become a Better Artist
Orson, 17 February 2010
Hi,
nice icons!
Today I released similar free icon/label collection: Free vector social media sticker set.
So you can add it to your great collection!
Paginas web Guatemala, 21 February 2010
The Coquette Theme is amazing!!! Best Regards!
oyun, 22 February 2010
It looks very great. Very beautiful icon sets.
thank you so much.
Healthy tips, 26 February 2010
wah hebat banget nich website…..numpang copas ya…. ha3
Dina, 27 February 2010
BEAUTIFUL
I come from china
?? thanks
biotoxik, 03 March 2010
Awesome I spent a few xD
yoxx, 14 March 2010
awesome work…
mating, 20 March 2010
Great post
Thanks for your this work.
Andy jack, 24 March 2010
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Kirsten, 25 March 2010
wow…….simply amazing
brandon, 25 March 2010
very informative article…liked it
bui dung, 26 March 2010
thank you
inspirationfeed, 27 March 2010
Beautiful collection.
sachin, 03 April 2010
really nice site and content
Tim, 04 April 2010
Thank you for letting us know about all these great designs. It really is a valuable contribution!
acoustic guitar, 04 April 2010
Wow- all this artistic talent and contribution in one place- thanks. It’s like having a book of logos.
Natasha, 11 April 2010
awesome stuff….really helpful
Boldis Media, 17 April 2010
Super icons! Go through!
Zlango, 23 April 2010
I think you forgot one that’s p r e t t y relevant:
Zlango
http://www.zlango.com
http://www.zlango.com/gui/mobileDownload/flash/fullIconSet.pdf
myl, 21 September 2010
http://www.tutorialsscripts.com/free-web-site-icons/free-icons-wikipedia.php
Graphic Designer, 23 April 2010
I’ve never seen anything so good! Those
icons are really beautiful. I’ve downloaded
at least 5 of those!! Thank you so much!!!
Boldis Media, 28 April 2010
Amazing graphic absolutely helpful in web-design!
Danny, 01 June 2010
Wow~~Those icons are really really awesome!!
sivaram, 07 June 2010
u hadd got a huge collection of them
Website Templates.bz, 09 June 2010
Even though I have looked through all of these icons, I am still in love with the doodle ones.
Great and lovely, one can feel a soul there))))
Design Hippo, 16 June 2010
What an awesome list of icon sets. Brilliant
hasmet, 17 June 2010
awesome.
ymq, 26 June 2010
It’s cool.
Bluejack, 05 July 2010
Nice collection.
khaled, 27 July 2010
wonderful and distinctive designs ..
thank you for your efforts.
TwitterBackgrounds, 29 July 2010
Great collection of icons back then already :) Well it’s only 2 years ago, but still. Love the Onibari Leopard Made icons, the chinese wind icons but also the merry christmas ones and the pirate icons of course. Can’t really decide here. Thanks for sharing these.
iTechRoom, 31 July 2010
Really a wonderful collection, Thanks for sharing.
Elijah, 21 August 2010
thanks
Good collection
Avkash, 24 August 2010
hey amazing collection…I like it..
Pictureme2, 31 August 2010
Totally Hot selection! It will look awesome on my ipad!!
Andy @ sales++, 01 September 2010
Great list, thanks very much! Coquette Icons are my favourite.
Agilworld, 05 September 2010
Great share! and thanks a lot!
beautiful icons, keep posting
thnks, 07 September 2010
beautiful
myl, 21 September 2010
all are nice icons
http://www.tutorialsscripts.com/free-web-site-icons/free-icons-blogger.php
Sandeep Kasupa, 29 September 2010
Catchy Collection
Meissen, 18 October 2010
great list of icon sets, thanks a lot
Yash Pal, 28 October 2010
Very Helpful in web site design.
Paul @ Social Icon Studio, 08 November 2010
Great list, Blast from the past..
pyzonet, 09 November 2010
no 10 dead link
jocuri noi, 14 November 2010
cam asa e
divorce data, 16 November 2010
I agree completely with what you’re saying. My only drawback is that once I do attempt to make a change, it really works, however I all the time revert again to my identical ways. Sticking to them is what I discover difficult.
Spencer, 18 December 2010
I REALLY like the wooden folder icons and the altered DropBox icon. I just wish I had the skill to create those types of things. One thing for sure, I’m going to download them right away
Yakup, 15 January 2011
We are now in 2011, The icons are still great and very usefull.
My favourites are “Milky icon set” and “Coquette Icons”.
I’m a designer for several years. But i have to be honest that my skills aren’t at the level of the designers of these icons :-(
juan, 24 January 2011
a good collection of icons, are very good and very useful for use in any design, not only to see that too as did those icons…
Chadwick Rusich, 29 January 2011
I am sorry for delay, but Happy New Year 2011 everyone!. I come and read the web site very often.
Catchcolors, 01 February 2011
Good designs .. appreciate !!!
method 21, 06 February 2011
As long as we’re making websites, lists like this will continue to be incredibly useful.
I’ve used several of these free icons in my UI projects.
roy, 23 February 2011
I’ve found really worthy post and useful info.
Biju Subhash, 14 March 2011
Thanks for sharing…
can get more icons from this link..
http://www.bijusubhash.com/?s=icon
celine, 24 March 2011
This is a great blog and very engaging too. Excellent work! That’s not really much coming from an amateur publisher like me, but it’s all I could think after enjoying your posts. Excellent grammar and vocabulary. Not like other blogs. You really know what you’re talking about too. So much that you made me want to explore more. Your blog has become a stepping stone for me, my friend. Thank you for the articulate journey. I really enjoyed the 4 posts that I have read so far.
Dorian Dair, 21 April 2011
It’s neat to check out views that produce awareness and are valuable nonetheless.
Salahaddin, 02 May 2011
Great! Thank you.
Ranga Babu, 03 September 2011
thank you good icons.. found
Golam Rahaman, 17 January 2012
Really nice and valuable icon. very useful for blog and web site
Daniel Quijano, 29 March 2012
wow, thanks a lot, this is an amazing list!!
turpazari, 05 July 2012
I like this blog layout . How do you make it? It’s so sweet
Thomas Brewer, 07 May 2013
Thanks for putting this together. It really helps a non-designer developer like me. I still appreciate great design and rely the awesome designers I work with, but sometimes you just need a place to grab a good icon.