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Icons don’t take up much space.
The little 16x16 (up to 256x256) graphics though, grab our attention.
How many times have you judged a software or web app, just by looking at its icons?
As operating systems develop, icon development gallops along with them.
From 16 color icons to 32-bit images with alpha transparency, we have come a long way.
Where do you go for a spot of icon hunting?
Thankfully, there are a huge number of resources out there!
The minimalistic and neat homepage is taken up by a large search box.
What you get with a search is access to more than300,000+ iconsand2000+icon packs.
The web service also comes with two converters.
The single touch integratedConvertbutton outputs an icon into any of theBMP, GIF, JPG, PSD, TIFformats.
It doesn’t make the distinction between licensed icons and free public ones.
So, it’s always better to press theBrowseand check the copyright claims if any.
VeryIcon.com catalogs about20,000 high quality iconsin its database for Windows, Macs and Linux systems.
And there are three ways to search through them.
you might do a normal keyword search, browse through the icon categories or do an advanced search.
The advanced search allows you to search for single icons or icon packs.
Other options include choosing an icon size, the category or fine-tuning it all with two types of matches.
Again, do verify the license of the icon you are downloading.
The most important is - specifying the license punch in prior to beginning your advanced search.
you could also search by giving the exact dimensions of the icons that you require for your project.
The image types supported by IconLet are PNG, GIF, and PSD.
IconLet also provides a Firefox search plugin.
IconSeeker.com covers icons for all three operating systems.
With nearly50,000 iconsindexed, it’s a good place to dig in for an icon hunt.
The icons are free for non-commercial use but author permissions are required for other purposes.
The interface is flash-based, so be sure to have it installed in your web app.
Just like FindIcons.com, this is one of the better designed icon searching tools.
Get access to150,000+ iconsand484 icon sets.
The icon site also has anicon conversion tooland aFavicon generator.
This web service is a definite must visit.
The way Google indexes webpages, it’s not really meant for icons.
But you could try out Google Image Search if the right icon still eludes you.
Here are the pointers:
hit the advanced search option or godirectlyto the advanced search page.
pop in in a keyword for the pop in of icon you are searching for.
For theSize, dropdown and selectIcon.
it’s possible for you to also optionally enter a size in the field that asks for theExactSize.
Searching for icons is actually not a huge problem.
Searching for the right high quality icon which is free does take an iota more effort.
Hopefully, these icon resources will make it a breeze.
Let us know if you have any more icon search engines to add to the list.
