Everybody loves a free web icon set and we love releasing these once in a while. After seeing our WooFunction icon set has notched up almost 60 000 downloads thus far, we felt another web icon set was long overdue. So we set out to find an awesome designer to work with us…
Similarly to finding Tyler’s work for our upcoming tumblog theme – Crisp – we stumbled onto Janik Baumgartner‘s work on Dribbble and immediately got in touch with him to work with us on a new icon set. And to say that we’re pleased with the results, would be a complete understatement of the awesomeness in this icon set.
Have a look at these 170 tasty icons (available as 32×32 PNG’s):
The Full WooCons #1 Set. Click for a full preview.
You’ll also see a smart, little naming convention for this icon set… WooCons #1 definitely suggests that we’ll be doing some more icons in future, since they always add a lot of value to any web design process. So that’s just another way in which we are adding some extra value…
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/2010/08/woocons1/. 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.
72 Responses to “WooCons #1: 170 Free Web Icons”
It is fantastic work Janik!!! It is really appreciated.
Great Designed Icons Set for WooLovers.
Great icons!
Really good design!
Oh so Sweet. Already spotted some new favourites.
Splendid work made by one of my favorite icon designers
Wow! Great release. Thanks for sharing.
These are amazing! Big thank you for sharing!
Great release, Some great icons here
Very nice! In the next set, how about a ‘plugin’ icon? Why doesn’t anybody ever make one of those?
Um… maybe I have an issue, but I can’t find the download link…
Oh… the black text that isn’t colored like other links… nevermind… duh.
Thanks Dude! Very cool icons!
I might be slow, but it took me about 10 minutes of staring at the screen to find the download link.
Wrapping the download link in h3 tags probably wasn’t that smart
Fixed the link to be more visible now
Nice! I like!
I like too
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Thanks Guys
Amazing list of themes.
Thanks a mil, this are really great!
Superb!
GPL? I’m not sure that GPL even applies to anything that isn’t source code. Secondly, GPL is a virus.
GPL stipulates that if you integrated GPL code into your code, then YOUR CODE must also be released as GPL. That means, if you use GPL code integrated into your website, your website code must become GPL.
GPL != Open source. How about a license more appropriate for artwork — say something from Creative Commons?
We want it to be free to everyone and allow everyone to redistribute if they want. Why is that so bad?
I prefer CC for graphics. GPL is better suited for code.
Why is GPL bad if we want it to be GPL?
I agree that CC is a good alternative, but we want our icons to be without restrictions for everyone.
I’m very happy that you released it with GPL. The issue is that the GPL was made for code – not for graphics and it can be a bit difficult to understand what you can and cannot do with graphics under GPL license. E.g. if the icons are placed in a design – that could actually force you to release the whole design with GPL. I haven’t heard of this happening, but in theory that could be the result. GPL are in many cases more restrictive than the CC.
A version of CC like this one: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ would give people the freedom to redistribute it and use it for commercial work. You can choose to add a note that attribution is not necessary and people could go mad with your icons without worrying.
Yeah there are a lot of unknowns with graphics and GPL I can agree with that. We will look into other licenses that are easier to understand
You could use the WTFPL :p http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
“we want our icons to be without restrictions for everyone.”
That’s precisely the problem. The GPL doesn’t do what you think it does. The GPL does NOT allow you to do whatever you want. Rather, if you have a closed-source project, you are not legally allowed (according to the GPL) to use these icons.
GPL is as restrictive as any closed-source license, in that it *forces* you to open-source any project that uses these icons, against your will. If you wanted to provide them “without restrictions,” you’d be looking for the BSD, MIT, or Apache 2.0 license.
That said, all of these licenses apply to code — not creative works, so the point is essentially moot. Creative works need a license appropriate for creative works.
I don’t mean to be a hassle, but I’ve been running highly-visible open-source projects for the past 8 years. Licensing is a big deal. I don’t know what your experience is with open-source licensing, but I typically find that people (incorrectly) associate “GPL” with “open-source” or “free to do whatever,” even if that’s not really the case.
“You keep using that word. I don’t think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya, Princess Bride
Fair enough, you can’t change the license on these icons, so if you use it in a closed source project, you will need to have a split license.
Great freebie. I have started to use them for a personal app design and they are awesome. Pretty much everything you would need for a nice webapp. Thanks guys.
Great Job!
Yhanks a lot for sharing
Thanks for the icons – they’re great! I’d like to incorporate them in a public Drupal theme, and they must be GPL for that use. So I for one am glad you’ve used the GPL license. I’ll be sure to credit you and give a link to your site.
No, they didn’t. They can be BSD or LGPL or…
Use LGPL instead of GPL…
thank thank thank you! as someone who does web photo and video, i just dont have time to design icons, so these are priceless.
Good icons for new websites. Thanks for your work guys.
Great icons. I love them. Thanks for sharing.
invalid download link !!
Invalid download link!!!
Sorry about that; just fixed the permalinks issue.
Invalid link error for all of the icons…
See above; fixed now.
Great Icons…I love the look. I posted these up on my free resource site @ http://bit.ly/95NX6K
Great icons.
Thanks!
Hey guys,
Great Icons.
To jump on the “GPL” thing for a bit, typically when one releases something under GPL, the source code is released with it. So perhaps the original PSDs or even better open SVG would be a good idea. Either way, I think a better license is in order.
Having said that my real point has to do with what you put in your icon sets. One thing I often find is that I’ll find an icon which is just what I want for my app but I want, lets say, an icon that represents “Sales for this user”. What I want to do is layer the graph icon as a button over the user icon. With the WooFunction icon set I can actually do this, but here its not possible.
What I would like to suggest is that when you create an icon set that you release them “deconstructed” that is you have all the images – user, calculator,graph,cart, etc – in their natural size and also in a “button” size, positioned in each of the 4 corners (user-button-bl, user-button-br, user-button-tl, user-button-tr) now I can create the icons I need for my app. Maybe I want to layer the user button on the user button for the relationships view. It doesn’t matter if it even makes sense, I might have a very good use for it. By providing the buttons positioned in the corners (rather than at their ‘natural’ size) I simply have to composite the two together, or perhaps just use multiple backgrounds.
This would turn a great icon set into a phenomenal icon system, with all the attendant glory and praise heaped upon woothemes.
That sounds like a good idea.
Thy! These are awesome!
just one word.. awesome!
Thanks..
great icon, thx
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