E-reader News Edition 10 Beautiful Free Hand-Drawn Icon Sets
Jacob Gube (Mashable!) Submitted at 7/8/2010 11:46:57 AM
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Icons are representations of products, services, and user interface elements that give developers the ability to fit information into smaller areas, relying on visual cognition to convey what an icon will do if pressed. Most icon designs are modern-themed with slick, shiny, and glossy gradients and perfect symmetry.
For the more adventurous individuals among us looking to step outside these preconceptions of what icons should look like, hand-drawn themes that embody intentional asymmetry can be a better option for setting a user interface apart.
This post highlights 10 such icon sets that you can download free of charge and utilize in your designs, user interfaces, and operating systems for an organic and non-standard look. As always, read the terms of use if you’re planning to use these icon sets for commercial work. 1. Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
Number of Icons: 14 File Format: JPG and PNG Sizes: 150×150px License: Custom license–
Personal and commercial use This pack of 14 hand-sketched icons include the logos of popular sites and web services such as Twitter, Facebook, and Digg, as well other handy icons for your blog, such as an RSS feed icon and email subscription icon. Designer and blogger, Chris Spooner, whose work has been featured in industry- leading web design magazines such as .NET, handcrafted this icon set.
Each icon is natively sized at 150×150px in PNG format, which is plenty big for use as social media badges on your web layout; you will probably end up needing to rescale them down to an appropriate size. 2. Artistica Icon Set Number of Icons: 60 File Format: PNG Sizes: 24×24, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px License: Custom license– Personal and commercial use This huge set of 60 distinct icons was hand-sketched by Rabotilnica — a small creative studio comprised of two programmers and two designers — to have an organic, color- brushed look. Icons include chat bubbles, the standard RSS symbol, a magnifying glass, and more, making the icon set perfect for web-based user interfaces or even for replacing your operating system’s icons. The set includes six sizes for
each icon, from 24×24px to 256×256px. The icon pack is free for personal use; however, if you intend to use them commercially, you’ll have to hand over $17.95. Shortly after the first set was released, it was extended with Artistica Part 2 Icon Set that adds 60 more icons. 3. Natsu Icon Set Number of Icons: 43 File Format: ICO and PNG Sizes: 256×256px License: Personal use, commercial use permission not explicitly stated
Natsu, a Japanese word that means "summer," is a hand- drawn set of icons by Thai Illustrator, Teekatas S. The set has a combination of pencil and watercolor work, with icons corresponding to objects such as sheets of paper, a USB stick, and a stack of Polaroid photos. The artist boasts about the icons’ non-perfection and asymmetry as his response to the "sparkling, elegant and glassy icons" that are more commonplace.
The set is at hand for your personal use; however, the artist did not explicitly state the
availability of his icons for commercial use. If you intend to profit from the icons, you may want to contact him. 4. Handy Number of Icons: 24 File Format: AI and PNG Sizes: 256×256px License: Personal and commercial use
One of the industry-leading design blogs, Webdesigner Depot, regularly hands out high- quality freebies to their readers. The catch? Nothing but a few seconds of your time to grab the download code from their RSS feed, which you’ll be asked to input when downloading their freebies.
This icon set includes 24 icons for popular social media and networking sites such as Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr. The author suggests that they also look great in black and white, so you can open them up in a graphics editor like Photoshop and employ one of the many handy ways of converting images to grayscale (e.g., Image > Adjustments > Desaturate). 5. Sketch’d up! Number of Icons: 99 File Format: EPS Sizes: Variable sizes License: Personal and commercial use
This icon pack comprises of close to a 100 assorted icons sketched using vector graphics software, which means they’re conveniently editable and will scale up and down in size
without loss of quality through pixelation.
Icons include the artist’s interpretation of the logos of popular social sites such as Delicious, Digg, and Twitter; popular graphical user interface objects like folders and floppy disk drives; and Apple products, such as the iPhone. Sketch’d up! is a mish-mash of computing- related icons that’s available to you for both personal and commercial use. 6. ColorStroked Freehand Icon Set Number of Icons: 29 File Format: PNG Sizes: 150×150px License: Personal use
These beautiful icons by a Maldives-based artist that goes by the name of Fayaz were drawn freehand using colored pencils. The set contains 29 icons for social media sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, Twitter and Facebook. Among the icons are also a few random and rarely represented products, including Opera and OpenOffice. The artist of the icon set only permits personal use of his icons. 7. Watercolor Free Icon Pack
Number of Icons: 36 File Format: PNG Sizes: 256×256px License: Custom license– commercial use permission not explicitly stated
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