In recent months we’ve worked quite hard to bring you some fantastic free stuff and we think that our growing collection of freebies is pretty awesome. So… Since icons are such a huge element in modern day web design, we decided to partner with one of the best icon designers we’ve come across to bring you a fantastic new web icon set.
We’ve worked with Liam McKay before on theme designs (5 to be exact) and we’ve always just admired his icon design work from afar. That however changes with the new WooFunction Web Icon Set which Liam recently completed for us.
The WooFunction Icon Set includes 178 amazing web-related icons in a sophisticated and glossy design style. All 178 icons are available as 32×32 pixel PNG files and we can assure you that they are indeed pixel-perfect. If you have an in-depth look at the individual icons, you’ll notice that Liam has spent a lot of time paying attention to the finer details, which means that this is a really classy icon set. Here; have a look for yourself:
WooFunction: 178 Amazing Web Design Icons
You like? Download the WooFunction Icon Set here!
If you find these icons useful we’d like you to pass them on to other who you think might appreciate the set. The URL to share is: http://www.woothemes.com/2009/09/woofunction/. Important: Even though we won’t force you, we appreaciate if you link to this article when sharing the icons.
This icon set is released on the GNU General Public License.
NOTE: You can grab some more freebies in our new Freebies Downloads Section.
154 Responses to “WooFunction: 178 Amazing Web Design Icons”
I like!
Thanks, you guys, and hugs from Bremen, Germany!
All it needed / needs is a little minus sign to go with the plus and it would have been perfect. The x will do I suppose, but to me that doesn’t really signify remove / delete when on it’s own.
I’m sure we can manage to chop and dice the + sign into a minus in photoshop, so we don’t have to bother Liam with it
We need for our Project a eraser. Is it possible to add this to the collection?
Thanks and hugs
Andreas
Those are some lovely clean icons. Liam always produces some great stuff. Cheers!
One more thing: if you folks are interested in starting a Woo Academy project and feel like offering webinar series on how to create icons like these, for example, I’d definitely be excited about signing up for a reasonable fee.
It could be free for premium members like yours truly, of course.
I specialize in online training so do let me know if you need any consulting on how to set your program up.
I wish I knew how liam makes these awesome icons!
Hehe… Yeah, I need to agree with Magnus. If we could produce such awesomeness as this, we’d probably be selling icons in addition to the themes. But unfortunately we can’t take any credit for the creation of this icon set.
They’re absolutely fantastic and perfect timing, I’ll be putting them to good use shortly
Kudos to Liam on a job well done here and thanks to Woo for making them freely available
these look great! well done
Liam always does excellent work and this is a nice addition to my icon collection
Thanks everyone! some really fantastic comments. It really does make those hours and hours of work worth while. Have fun implementing them guys!
Fantastic work yet again. Thanks;
Very nice pack!
Greeeeeattt icons…!! I loved. Thanks
Perfect – exactly what I was looking for on a site I’m working on right now.
It’s amazing what can appear just as I’m need it.
Thanks guys, so much appreciated.
David
Awesome set! Keep it up!
YOU guys rock!
Are we allowed to use theese in in themes? Or are we allowed to use them in commercial websites?
You can read the license here. It should explain it quite well: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/
I still don’t get it, am i allowed to use theese commercially?
Why on earth only 32x32px, I wouldn’t have minded 512x512px icons too. (Easy to make smaller if needed, 32x32px however look crappy if resized bigger, of course).
Otherwise, a very nice set of icons indeed.
It’s actually not that easy to make large icons smaller, just by resizing them. They loose their edge so most icons are made and polished in all sizes. So if Liam made 64×64 and 128×128 he would have to repolish the 32×32 to make them look good e.g. it would take a lot more work.
I don’t think you’ll see many large icon design packs with bigger than 16px or 32px
Yeah Magnus is right, It’s not simply a case of re-sizing you need to re-touch and in some cases re-make the smaller you go.
The set is available at one size only (as most free Icon sets) are. I’d recommend not re-sizing at all. It’s best to keep them at original size for that pixel perfect finish.
Really great icon set, I can’t wait to use it.
Wow! So many cool icons! Can’t wait to use them on my sites! Gotta spread the word!
Thank you.
great stuff guys..
keep up the good work…
cheers from germany ;D
stefan
Great work Liam!
Great looking icons, thanks for sharing
Hi,
Can I use them in themes for WordPress?? I guess not? As WordPress themes have to be GPL.
I hope you release some icon sets that are compatible with GPL license, so that they’re worth using.
You can still use the icons in GPL’ed themes; just give credit.
Hi Adii,
To be GPL compatible, the theme cannot ‘force’ a backlink. It can only force a ‘credit’ link somewhere, anywhere in the source/css/readme files.
Moreover, Creative Commons license is not compatible with GPL – http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html
The theme doesn’t need to give credit, but you need to link back to this article on the web page you put the theme up for download.
But once the theme is released under GPL, and having those icons, they themselves would have to inherit GPL license. CreativeCommons is incompatible with GPL
According to the Free Software Foundation, only the code needs to be GPL, so the icons can be credited: http://wordpress.org/development/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/
But your own themes are completely GPL (including css/images)?
I’m talking about getting accepted on WP Extend. They require all themes to be completely GPL, including css and images.
Yeah I see that WP.org are a bit “strict” on that license. We’ll discuss this internally tomorrow and give you all an update on the precise nature of the license, so there is no confusion.
Ok, great.
But, actually, once you use these in your themes, they automatically become GPL. So any icon in any of the woothemes, are and can be used as GPL licensed.
They are licensed GPL now, so you can use them in your themes
Awesome, thanks! This is probably the only icon set released under GPL in the recent days. Atlast found something to use in my themes
Just a note – ‘Important: You must link to this article when sharing the Icons, you must not upload these files anywhere else.’ is not applicable on GPL license as far as I know.
It doesn’t matter. We ask for accreditation if someone were to share this set elsewhere as a matter of courtesy. The icons are officially licensed with the GPL to allow developers to bypass WP.org’s strict application of the GPL on themes submitted to the repository. But we’d still love to be credited for releasing this awesomeness when the icons are made available elsewhere.
I understand, but ‘must’ is probably not the best word.
Also, I think commented threads are not working properly here on woothemes?
And thank you for the great icon set
Amit – Ultimately this is what we’ve decided to do. We don’t have to license the icon set as GPL to make it compatible with WP’s wishes, as it is not a WP theme. WP.org doesn’t own the interpretation to the GPL either; they can however be as strict as they please with regards to GPL’ed themes. Our icons however fall outside of that scope.
I think it’s only fair for us to get some recognition for investing money to release this icon set for free?
Well, the problem is, your themes are 100% gpl now. So if you didn’t license this as GPL, you cannot use these icons in your own themes (once you do, they fall under GPL)
Anyways, these icon sets are the best (if not ‘the best’) I have ever seen.
Recognition is fair, but writing a ‘must link, not upload to their site’ isn’t actually GPL.
GPL doesn’t mean you won’t get credit, but you won’t necessarily get it in the form of a ‘linkback’. It can be in the source code/anywhere. I see you use WordPress for this blog (for the site too I believe) but there’s no link to WordPress.org on the frontpage/blog.
You realize that you are busy nit-picking, right? But for the sake of it, I’ll entertain you…
We could theoretically not license the icon set as GPL. Then we could for example use 10 of the icons in one of our themes, which will be GPL’ed. This means that since we are the owners of the icons, we can simply say that the 10 icons used in THAT theme is GPL, as we have the power to do whatever we want with the icons. This icon set as provided on here then, doesn’t have to be GPL.
I think the terms as specified are more than fair (sheesh, I’d think just giving this away for free is a freakin bonus) and this is the last I’ll comment on the licensing matter.
If you say that no one can redistribute, that is not GPL. You may have to rethink on the licensing in that case – http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html
We haven’t said you can’t redistribute. We just ask for a link back to this post. The GNU license still applies, so if you for some reason don’t want to link back to the post, but put these up for download yourself, then you are allowed to.
I’ve changed the text in the yellow box now so there are no more misunderstandings.
Something just PERFECT !
Almost every icon, we need. Great work guys. W00 !!
Great icon, thanks
Great collection mates! Thanks
A great collection
AWESOME! just the high standard i see in your other offerings. thanks for sharing!
The creative commons license you linked to allows us to share/upload/distribute these icons on our site. But you have posted ‘Important: You must link to this article when sharing the Icons, you must not upload these files anywhere else.’
Great set guys, will be definitely adding this one to my resources folder!
How beautiful! This will come in handy for sure, thanks guys!
Big Thx!
Thanks a lot Liam, these are truly awesome
Not many designers put this kind of effort into giving away something for free. I like!
Absolutely stunning! Many thanks.
Wow, awesome!
Thanks for sharing these =)
Great Icon set. Better than the ones up for purchase on other sites IMO
Super cool set of web design icons. Downloaded…
I’m just waiting for my next web design project so that I can implement these icons.
Thanks for the icons! It’s an amazing work.
Now that you have changed the licensing to GPL, developers of closed source desktop software can no longer use them without making their software open source.
I would have been very happy to comply with the CC license and give credit and a link in my about box, but I am not happy with the idea that I will now have to give away my work under GPL, if I use these in my project.
You wouldn’t need to do that…
Your software wouldn’t inherit the GPL from the icons. The icon files would still be GPL, but the rest of your software wouldn’t.
Thanks for the great collection.
Stinkin’ Awesome! I love free stuff…
Thanks for sharing all the hard work.
Very impressive icons. This are really useful for designing website.
Thanks for sharing.
I won’t be nit-picky.
Thanks for the free icons! You guys rock!
Thanks for the great work. I like these icons.
Awesome stuff – looking forward to using these!
Thanks for this nice collection of Web Design Icons..Really a great job!!!!
Thanks for this great work i have never seen before.. ahmed ali, htt://thenet-shop.com
Cool icon set. I love it. Thanks for the share!
Awesome stuff guys, you guys rock.
We’ll be using it on our websites.
A great set of icons. Well done to the designers and many thanks for sharing!
Thanks for this great work i have never seen before.. ahmed ali, htt://thenet-shop.com
I love these icons.
>First person to (approx) guess the number of downloads of our WooFunction icon set (http://bit.ly/3MzVXh) gets a free Dev theme.
My guess is 24,250 downloads
Thank you for sharing~
It’s awesome
very nice icons, thnks for sharing!!!
Very nice icon’s!
Thanks guys, and hugs from São Paulo, Brazil!
merci beaucoup
than you so much
very good, thanks
Tnx for the great set of icons.
Awesome, simply awesome! Thank you so much for creating these icons and releasing them into the wild. Really top notch work.
Great icons. Thanks alot guys!
These are GREAT icons for any site! Glad I stumbled across them.
Good work..
i hope you will more add icon.
thanks
Great set of icons. Thank you.
wow, great job man…
thank you for this fantastic icons.
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