Icons (including free for commercial use) • Hacker News Board

simonsquiff wrote: post #10

bryanh wrote: post #2

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).

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

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.

Re: Icons (including free for commercial use)

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Post by MatthewPhillips » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 2:12 PM UTC

melissamiranda wrote: post #20

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

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

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Post by iconfinder » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 2:48 PM UTC

jonespen wrote: post #13

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

Thanks

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Post by iconfinder » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 2:49 PM UTC

virii wrote: post #15

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

Thanks!

Agreed, Picons are great.

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Post by iconfinder » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 2:50 PM UTC

petervandijck wrote: post #7

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

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

Thanks anyway.

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Post by iconfinder » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 7:21 PM UTC

duskwuff wrote: post #9

dchest wrote: post #4

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

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.

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.

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Post by morphix » Tue, Mar 08, 2011, 10:20 PM UTC

virii wrote: post #15

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

Thanks :)

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Post by duskwuff » Wed, Mar 09, 2011, 4:53 AM UTC

iconfinder wrote: post #28

duskwuff wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

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.

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...