Icons, those tiny visual symbols that fill our screens are more than just decorations. They’re the cornerstones of user interfaces, the shortcuts that turn complex actions into a simple click. Whether you’re a gamer, developer, or passionate tinkerer, icons are here to make your life easier.
Picture your desktop without the trash bin icon: how would you delete that 40GB file you regret downloading? Or your game launcher without the icons of your favorite titles finding Elden Ring in a text-only list? Unthinkable.
Icons are also a playground for customization. You can skin your OS with cyberpunk, retro, or minimalist packs. Well-chosen icon is a love letter to your setup.
In short, icons are like Easter eggs in a game: once you realize their importance, you can’t live without them.
If you're looking for icons, I've got a few resources for you:
Disclaimer: the links below do not open directly onto the resources cited but on a summary with more details than here, so you don't have to read all the tool's documentation to understand what it is and what its main features are. If you're interested by the resource, there's a button to go directly to the relevant site. See "Visit this tool's website" blue button, top right on desktop view
1. pqoqubbw
A beautifully crafted animated icons. An open-source (MIT License) collection of smooth animated icons for your projects. Feel free to use them, share your feedback, and let's make this library awesome together. Built with framer-motion and lucide.
2. IconBuddy
Download, Customize, Edit and Personalize. Over 180k+ open source icons. Choose from a variety of formats for icon downloads, including SVG, PNG, WEBP, JSX, VUE, BASE64, URLs, CSS snippets, and HTML image tags.
3. Remixicon
Open-source neutral-style system symbols elaborately crafted for designers and developers. All of the icons are free for both personal and commercial use.
4. SVG Repo
Explore, search and find the best fitting icons or vectors for your projects using wide variety vector library. Download free SVG Vectors for commercial use.
5. CSS Icons
Minimalistic icon library Designed by code. Customizable et Retina-Ready icons, entirely build in CSS.
6. IconSVG
Customize your svg icon (color, size, background ...) and use it in your website. SVG, JSX, React code available.
7. useAnimations
Animated icons in Lottie Framework and After Effects for immediate implementation to your apps or websites.
8. FontKiko
Font Kiko is a pack of more than 1500 Open Source icons, which are suitable for any purposes. Use font Kiko on your PC while preparing a web-project or developing an application for iOS or Android.
9. Unicons
1300+ Pixel-perfect vector icons and Iconfont for your next project.
10. Eva Icons
Eva Icons is a pack of more than 480 beautifully crafted Open Source icons for common actions and items.
11. Feather icons
Simply beautiful open source icons designed by Cole Bemis.
12. Norde
Norde Source makes it easy to customize entire icon sets to fit your brand. Built for designers, developers, marketers and anyone who works with a lot of icons.
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