A good (free) set of 240 icons

A big problem and a big waste of time for a programmer is the research of icons and images to associate to buttons, panels, toolbars and so on.
I really hated to do that with Google image-finder, so i searched a lot until i found a site that contained a million of icons.
Of course it can't exist that for every program i search in a database containing so many designs, so i want to show you a set of icons that in my opinion cover almost all that a programmer needs.
As usual remember that an icon should HELP the operator, not just be pretty. If you feel that the icon is not so meaningful, it's better to remove it and just leave text on the button (so the operator is forced to read it).
This is a small (and almost useless) preview of the set, that contains more useful icons for sure:

But i invite you to visit this page: http://www.iconarchive.com/category/application/aesthetica-2-icons-by-dryicons.html to see the complete set (that is really big, around 240 icons).
I want to point the attention on some icons:
- Accept, Add, Remove and Edit are pretty straightforward. I think that no one can do confusion with this set of icons.
- Back, Next, Down and Top are pretty useful too, even if i don't like to abuse of them because they are not always understandable if the context is not well defined.
- Info, Help, Search and Warning are awesome. It's impossible to don't understand what they means and they are similar to windows ones too.
- Lock - Unlock icons for password login is always useful.
- Charts, Folders, Databases, Home, Word and Calendar got always a use in programs, and they are included too.

The rest is quite trashy, or not so useful, but it always depends on what you are doing.
I really invite you to check out this set, downloadable from the bottom of this page:
http://www.iconarchive.com/category/application/aesthetica-2-icons-by-dryicons.html
selecting Linux (.png) files included (so you get the version with the set of 16x16 - 32x32 - 48x48 - 64x64 - 128x128 pixels)
Remember that if you use them you should read carefully the license, that permit a free use of this set, and to respect the work of this guys.

1 comment:

Simone Manneschi said...

Ottimo! Grazie! mi hai salvato un bel po di tempo e stanno pure bene con WPF