5 Groovy Icon Resources
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In case you hadn’t noticed I really like icons, in fact I love icons. A great set of icons, or even a few nice ones can really lift your Drupal themes from drab, to fab, and all it takes is a bit of leg work to find a suitable set for your rocking Drupal theme. Heres a short list of 5 icon resources I have plundered used recently.
iconfinder.net
Iconfinder have around 100 000 searchable icons and icon sets, and the bestest thing is that many, or perhaps even most, are free for commercial use or even GPL—amazing. This is my number one choice.
divageekdesigns.com
This cat has a rad selection of icons amongst other awesome graphic design resources and links. A must see.
iconbuffet.com
The gotcha here is you have to be a member and you need to collect/trade sets to get all the free icons. The upside is that they are good quality, but then again most sets have a very specific usage, such as Halloween icons and so on. I collected lots of these sets but I don’t use them much—all the same they’re still worth checking out.
iconarchive.com
Not quite up to par with the first three and you’ll want to have your pop-up blocker on full noise, but if you dig around there are some useful icons to be had. Many are a bit long in the tooth and a tad on the clipartish side of things…
famfamfam.com
I’m a big fan of famfamfam icon sets, they all seem to be easy on the eye and just work when you need icons that do not dominate the overall design. There ain’t so many to choose from but they are all top notch quality.
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#3 And of course Smashing
And of course Smashing magazine has posted links to icon resources more than once. I remember a comment on one of the posts there from somebody who had difficulty finding good icons for CMS specific actions and concepts. Would you agree? Depends on what you’re using the icons for of course, I’m guessing icons for a specific web site front end theme aren’t that hard to find. Thee’s tons of twitter, halloween and smileys sets out there, but as you see, rather limited usefulness. I’m talking CMS backend, admin type functionality.
I’m looking to re-do and expand on my icon work I already did for Drupal core and contrib modules and would be interested to hear which objects/concepts/actions people have a hard time finding appropriate icons for.
#1 you forgot iconPot
One site that I’ve used quite a bit is iconPot - http://www.iconpot.com/. They collect free for use icon sets.