an edited excerpt from Chapter 3 of «The Icon Handbook» by Jon Hicks

… an easy to implement framework of Google+ styled buttons, icon buttons & dropdown menu buttons

[dih-fawlt] [ahy-kon] is a repository of elegant, visually unified, minimal icons with crystal clear clarity, based on black color. It Can be used for UI design on web, portable devices (iPhone, iPad, Android compatible devices, other smartphones etc) , desktop applications, and generally any kind of electronic or mechanic machinery interface.

Easy add icons to sidebar of categories and pages. All features are flexible and ajax based.

is a set of 434 (and growing) web and application icons inspired by advertising clip art of the 1920′s and 1930′s. The set is available in vector format and also includes a CSS/PNG sprite version. → GPL Licensed Version (download) : http://iconify.it/?file_id=9

Free design resources layered PSD, resizable vectors, PNG icons

A resource containing hundreds of web icons, for use on personal and commercial websites through a drag and drop interface.

… a huge FREE icon set containing over a 1,000+ icons, all in a vector-shaped Photoshop format.

… and a preview of what’s to come

Icons for iOS apps, WatchKit, nav bars, tab bars. @3x sizes too.

Round-ups of beautiful and useful **icons** are almost legendary here, on Smashing Magazine. While some readers complain about the annoying "list"-style of some of our articles, we are confident that useful round-ups of relevant resources are very valuable and useful for designers. This is why over months we collect useful links and then present them in posts in the magazine. Like it or hate it, but the feedback that we get from the design community when we publish such posts is mostly positive which is why we keep doing it.

Androidicons is a professional, handcrafted icon set with 250 icons in 14 different colors and 5 sizes, including an icon font and all sources.

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... 25 Icons. You’re though completely free to edit, change and/or directly use the icons in your site and in any kind of your projects.

we present 40 excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design [smashing magazine]

We love free icons and icon sets. In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private and commercial projects. You may always use them for free in your private projects. Nevertheless, it is always worth to take a look at the license agreements — they can change from time to time.

Resolution independence is the notion that all graphics on a computer display should be zoomable to an arbitrary multiplier without losing quality. If you know even the slightest thing about computer graphics, you’ll understand that in a resolution independent world, bitmaps are out and vector graphics are in. Vector graphics can scale gracefully to an […]