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WooFunction: 178 Amazing Web Design Icons
25. Sep, 2009 by Adii Rockstar in Freebies
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!
Share these icons:
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.
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.
25 September 2009 at 7:41 am #
I like!
Thanks, you guys, and hugs from Bremen, Germany!
25 September 2009 at 7:45 am #
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.
25 September 2009 at 7:52 am #
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
28 September 2009 at 11:04 am #
We need for our Project a eraser. Is it possible to add this to the collection?
Thanks and hugs
Andreas
25 September 2009 at 7:53 am #
Those are some lovely clean icons. Liam always produces some great stuff. Cheers!
25 September 2009 at 7:58 am #
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.
25 September 2009 at 8:06 am #
I wish I knew how liam makes these awesome icons!
25 September 2009 at 8:11 am #
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.
25 September 2009 at 8:01 am #
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
25 September 2009 at 8:36 am #
these look great! well done
25 September 2009 at 8:42 am #
Liam always does excellent work and this is a nice addition to my icon collection
25 September 2009 at 8:57 am #
Thanks everyone! some really fantastic comments. It really does make those hours and hours of work worth while. Have fun implementing them guys!
25 September 2009 at 1:37 pm #
Fantastic work yet again. Thanks;
25 September 2009 at 10:23 am #
Very nice pack!
25 September 2009 at 11:13 am #
Greeeeeattt icons…!! I loved. Thanks
25 September 2009 at 12:16 pm #
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
25 September 2009 at 12:17 pm #
Awesome set! Keep it up!
25 September 2009 at 12:18 pm #
YOU guys rock!
25 September 2009 at 12:24 pm #
Are we allowed to use theese in in themes? Or are we allowed to use them in commercial websites?
25 September 2009 at 5:48 pm #
You can read the license here. It should explain it quite well: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/za/
26 September 2009 at 11:00 am #
I still don’t get it, am i allowed to use theese commercially?
25 September 2009 at 12:25 pm #
Why on earth only 32×32px, I wouldn’t have minded 512×512px icons too. (Easy to make smaller if needed, 32×32px however look crappy if resized bigger, of course).
Otherwise, a very nice set of icons indeed.
25 September 2009 at 5:45 pm #
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
25 September 2009 at 9:30 pm #
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.
25 September 2009 at 1:42 pm #
Really great icon set, I can’t wait to use it.
25 September 2009 at 1:51 pm #
Wow! So many cool icons! Can’t wait to use them on my sites! Gotta spread the word!
25 September 2009 at 1:56 pm #
Thank you.
25 September 2009 at 4:39 pm #
great stuff guys..
keep up the good work…
cheers from germany ;D
stefan
25 September 2009 at 4:55 pm #
Great work Liam!
25 September 2009 at 7:01 pm #
Great looking icons, thanks for sharing
25 September 2009 at 8:57 pm #
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.
26 September 2009 at 4:37 am #
You can still use the icons in GPL’ed themes; just give credit.
26 September 2009 at 6:40 am #
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
26 September 2009 at 7:31 am #
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.
26 September 2009 at 11:29 pm #
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
26 September 2009 at 3:16 am #
Something just PERFECT !
Almost every icon, we need. Great work guys. W00 !!
26 September 2009 at 6:01 am #
Great icon, thanks
26 September 2009 at 6:44 am #
Great collection mates! Thanks
26 September 2009 at 7:10 am #
A great collection
26 September 2009 at 7:24 am #
AWESOME! just the high standard i see in your other offerings. thanks for sharing!
26 September 2009 at 7:44 am #
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.’
26 September 2009 at 8:18 am #
Great set guys, will be definitely adding this one to my resources folder!
26 September 2009 at 8:47 am #
How beautiful! This will come in handy for sure, thanks guys!
26 September 2009 at 9:00 am #
Big Thx!
26 September 2009 at 11:24 am #
Thanks a lot Liam, these are truly awesome
Not many designers put this kind of effort into giving away something for free. I like!
26 September 2009 at 1:34 pm #
Absolutely stunning! Many thanks.
26 September 2009 at 8:10 pm #
Wow, awesome!
Thanks for sharing these =)
27 September 2009 at 8:38 pm #
Great Icon set. Better than the ones up for purchase on other sites IMO
27 September 2009 at 10:20 pm #
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.
28 September 2009 at 5:42 am #
Thanks for the icons! It’s an amazing work.
28 September 2009 at 9:59 am #
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.
28 September 2009 at 10:06 am #
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.
28 September 2009 at 12:32 pm #
Thanks for the great collection.
28 September 2009 at 6:55 pm #
Stinkin’ Awesome! I love free stuff…
29 September 2009 at 9:35 am #
Thanks for sharing all the hard work.
29 September 2009 at 9:40 am #
Very impressive icons. This are really useful for designing website.
Thanks for sharing.
29 September 2009 at 1:58 pm #
I won’t be nit-picky.
Thanks for the free icons! You guys rock!
30 September 2009 at 12:15 am #
Thanks for the great work. I like these icons.
30 September 2009 at 4:52 am #
Awesome stuff – looking forward to using these!
30 September 2009 at 6:58 am #
Thanks for this nice collection of Web Design Icons..Really a great job!!!!
30 September 2009 at 1:54 pm #
Thanks for this great work i have never seen before.. ahmed ali, htt://thenet-shop.com
30 September 2009 at 10:46 pm #
Cool icon set. I love it. Thanks for the share!
1 October 2009 at 10:43 am #
Awesome stuff guys, you guys rock.
1 October 2009 at 6:38 pm #
We’ll be using it on our websites.
2 October 2009 at 6:06 am #
A great set of icons. Well done to the designers and many thanks for sharing!
5 October 2009 at 11:24 am #
Thanks for this great work i have never seen before.. ahmed ali, htt://thenet-shop.com
13 October 2009 at 2:56 pm #
I love these icons.
13 October 2009 at 2:57 pm #
>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
14 October 2009 at 1:04 am #
Thank you for sharing~
It’s awesome
14 October 2009 at 6:42 pm #
very nice icons, thnks for sharing!!!
17 October 2009 at 7:44 am #
Very nice icon’s!
Thanks guys, and hugs from São Paulo, Brazil!
21 October 2009 at 3:37 pm #
merci beaucoup
than you so much
26 October 2009 at 1:42 am #
very good, thanks
3 November 2009 at 3:00 am #
Tnx for the great set of icons.
3 November 2009 at 3:31 pm #
Awesome, simply awesome! Thank you so much for creating these icons and releasing them into the wild. Really top notch work.
5 November 2009 at 12:02 am #
Great icons. Thanks alot guys!
12 November 2009 at 4:06 am #
These are GREAT icons for any site! Glad I stumbled across them.
12 November 2009 at 4:11 am #
Good work..
i hope you will more add icon.
thanks
15 November 2009 at 10:16 am #
Great set of icons. Thank you.
24 November 2009 at 12:48 am #
wow, great job man…
thank you for this fantastic icons.
27 September 2009 at 7:21 am #
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/
27 September 2009 at 11:16 am #
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.
27 September 2009 at 12:14 pm #
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.
27 September 2009 at 9:05 pm #
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.
28 September 2009 at 3:46 am #
They are licensed GPL now, so you can use them in your themes
28 September 2009 at 4:01 am #
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.
28 September 2009 at 5:54 am #
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.
28 September 2009 at 8:41 am #
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
28 September 2009 at 9:01 am #
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?
28 September 2009 at 9:46 am #
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.
28 September 2009 at 10:04 am #
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.
28 September 2009 at 10:54 am #
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
28 September 2009 at 11:30 am #
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.
28 September 2009 at 11:35 am #
I’ve changed the text in the yellow box now so there are no more misunderstandings.