40 best free icon sets, Spring 2015

Paddi Macdonnell.
May 06, 2015
40 best free icon sets, Spring 2015.

Whether you’re building a new website, a new app, or a dashboard, you can’t do without great icons. The Web is in love with icons, they’re used everywhere from apps to responsive sites, all because they pack information into a small space. And because each set of icons is unique, you can give a different voice to a design, just by switching between sets. Today we’ve put together the best icon sets so far from 2015. Some have been released in the last 4 months, others have had significant updates. There’s a ton of different themes here, ranging from business, to leisure, and of course plenty of weather icons. There’s also a wide range of types, with some designers favoring flat design, and others reincarnating skeuomorphic design. Some of these icons have been designed by leading names in the field, others are just regular designers who wanted to give something back to the community. All of the icons here are crystal clear vectors; some are drawn in Photoshop, some in Illustrator, and some in Sketch. All of them are free to download and use in personal or commercial projects.

32 icons

018

Weather icons

031

Flat icons

034

45 free transport icons

023

Fauna Precolombina Set

038

Thin Line UI Icons 170

040

Free Shopping Cart Icons

045

Free Download — Icon Set 2015

002

30 line icons

048

Icono – Pure CSS Icons

028

Happy Friday Space Travelers

022

Objects Icons

046

Free line icon pack

044

90 Free Line Icons

041

Free File Type Icons

039

Boldo — Free Icon Set

019

Travel icon set

017

Carnival icon set

015

100 free kitchen icons

014

Free social circles

013

Polygon free flat icons set

011

School subjects

010

18 flat icons set

009

Geometric icons

008

Icons pack #4

007

48 icons

006

Freeline

005

Simple icons

043

Weather icons

035

Heart icons

033

Free Set Colorful Ficons Icons 42+

032

Icons pack #2

030

25 Zombies icons

001

Calendar icons set

027

Icon sets pack

025

Business icon set

024

Viro

021

New York Buildings Icons Set

020

Paddi MacDonnell

Paddi MacDonnell is a designer and entrepreneur from Northern Ireland, follow her on Twitter.

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