Finding the right icon for your web projects can be a time consuming search. Finding the right color, size and format once you have the right icons is other lap of that struggle. Here is an extensive list of 40 sources that provide free icons in varied sizes and formats to suit your every need when working on a design project!

Codrops features a very extensive list of icon collections, ranging from virtual reality to sports to yoga icons & more. Most of these collections are available as Adobe Illustrator (AI) artwork, Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format, and PNG format.

2. Icons8

This site has a varied collection of vibrant flat color icons. The free pack has 312 of them in it, all of which can be download as a zip file. These icons are available under a “Good Boy” License, which is laid out in general terms as — Please do whatever your mom would approve of ! There’s also some room for customization of the icons on the site and users can request unorthodox custom icons for free also.

3. zipBoard

An icon set made exclusively for learning and instructional courses, but still consisting of icons which can be used in a wide array of projects. It consists of 30 designs, each available in three formats — PNG, EPS and Ai. That makes it a total of 90 icons. Blue is the theme for this icon set and it is completely free for download. You can download it here.

4. Feather

Beautiful open source icons created by front end developer and designer, Cole Bemis. They are minimal & elegant in style, and available in SVG format. There are over 100 icons organized in categories of core, media controls, communication, photo & video, location, weather, arrows, and logos. There is more than enough to cover basic needs for a project. The icons are free of charge under the MIT license and can be used in private and commercial projects.

5. Flaticon

A collection of over 300,000 icons is available on Flaticon in PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD, and BASE64 formats. It’s an extensive database — in short. Icon packs vary from e-Learning to finance to video analytics to SEO. Another nifty addition is the ability for users to make patterns out of the icons.

6. Good Stuff No Nonsense

Much like the name, the free collection is compact and finite. The passion project of web designer Agata Kuczminska, all icons are hand-drawn custom icons. If you want something more to your unique individual taste, you can request more hand made icons too.

7. Iconfinder

Featuring some really clean and efficient designs, Iconfinder let’s you browse through more than 30,000 sets for icons. It has a special repository for free icons, curated from other sources too.

8. Free Goodies for Designers

Started by a group of designers and art directors, apart from colorful icons, Free Goodies for Designers also has fonts, textures, effects, images, and mock ups.

9. Ego Icons

They call their work icons with personality. Ego Icons has a nice mix of geometry and fluidity in their designs. Their primary target audience is iOS / Android developers. For more on their approach, here’s what they say about themselves.

10. Graphic Burger

Graphic Burger is a “buffet of design resources offered free to the community.” Started by Romanian designer Raul Taciu, the icons are nice and clean with particular emphasis on pixel perfection and outline. The license permits usage of icons on any number of personal and commercial projects without the need to credit the original source.

11. PaymentFont

If your need is exclusively for icons of payment operators or methods then PaymentFont is the answer. PaymentFont was originally made for the WooCommerce Payment Methods Plugin for WordPress. It covers 95 web payment operators and methods. However, it does require Flash to directly copy the icon.

12. 365Cons

Started by designer Amy Devereux as a daily icon dairy, this is a sweet and simple collection of 365 icons available in PNG and SVG formats, or as a link. Overall there is a variance in design style and technique, but each of the designs are vibrant and playful.

13. Creative Tail

Featuring mostly free collections of icons, the icons at Creative Tail have a good finesse and a minimalist style. These icons are open source files free for private or commercial use.

14. Iconmonstr

Run by UI and icon designer Alexander Kahlkopf, iconmonstr is a free and continuously growing collection of icons that are available in complementary set of ‘fill’ and ‘outline’. The designs are created with a 24-pixel grid in mind. A generator to change size, color, and background is also available.

15. IconToucan

A collection of hundreds of free icons, IconToucan allows downloading either individual icons, or dragging and dropping them into a cluster and then downloading that cluster as a zip file.

16. Icojam

Icojam has a collection of multitudes of icon sets, some having free licenses and some Creative Commons license. There is a wide variety of free packs including vector icons, fill icons, and flat icons.

17. The Noun Project

The Noun Project has an unbelievable amount of variety for individual icons (there are more than 200 icons just for calculator)! These are available in PNG and SVG formats. While it is possible to customize color for each of the icons, you’ll have to upgrade to PRO for that option.

18. Pixeden

Free icons are available on Pixeden in PNG format ranging from 16x16 to 512x512. They are crisp even at high-resolution, can be customized in CSS, and also compatible with screen readers.

19. DryIcons

DryIcons is another repository for icons but with a catch. Their free license makes it necessary to publish a back link to DryIcons from whichever project the icons have been used on. This means having to place a back link on multiple pages of the project if the icon has been used on more than one page. However, they do have a Regular and Extended license for cases where it may not be possible to provide a back link.

20. Dreamstale

Much like DryIcons, free icons downloaded from Dreamstale can be used freely till the time they are correctly attributed to their original author on the project. Their is, of course, a premium service which allows the user the freedom to change or use the icon in whatever way they see fit.

21. Oxygenna

While by origin Oxygenna is a WordPress theme designer, it puts out lots of free icons to be used by others in the community. They are somewhat partial to Material Design in their icons but they still have more than enough variety to satisfy your hunt for free icons of different styles.

22. Freebiesbug

Freebiesbug is more like a catalog of free icon sets. It has a plethora of free web design resources including fonts, Sketch freebies, Illustrator freebies etc. You can also submit free resources that you may wish to contribute.

23. IconsResponsive.com

The free icons on this site consist of 24 unique icons with 8 variations each, making it a total of 192 free samples. This has a mix of color as well as monochrome icons. You only have to share the page and you’ll have access to the free resources on offer.

24. Freepik

This is a collection of over 90,000 free vector icons available for both personal and commercial use. Freepik puts out more than a hundred free resources everyday. The fact that companies like Google and Adobe use material from Freepik bears testimony to the quality of content.

25. Web Design Freebies

Web Design Freebies curates quality free content from all over internet and puts the design resources in one place for designers. Most of the icons are under Creative Commons license.

26. Captain Icon

Created by Spanish designer Mario del Valle, Captain Icon has over 300 free icons. All these can customized in size & color and they cover a wide variety of themes such as weather, sports, social, office, design etc.

27. Best PSD Freebies

Much like Freepik, Best PSD Freebies curates free web design resources from all over the internet. The majority of icons are vector graphics that can be customized by color or adjusted in size to suit the user’s needs.

28. Design Beep

Design Beep puts out free icons and other freebies from a lot of sources. These are typically in packs contributed by other designers or sites. They can be downloaded in most common formats such as AI, PNG, SVG, EPS etc.

29. Entypo

Created by designer Daniel Bruce, Entypo has a collection of almost 400 icons in SVG format. These icons are designed to a 20x20 pixel board specification. Attribution when using the icons is expected but this can be done in the footer of the website and without a lot of text, making Entypo a little simpler than other icon resources where attribution is needed.

30. IcoMoon

IcoMoon caters to three issues: vector icon packs, the IcoMoon App, and hosting icons as SVGs or fonts. The IcoMoon App is particularly helpful in browsing though the collection of content and editing them as per the user’s needs.

31. Squid Ink

Squid Ink has a vast collection of vector, line, and solid icons that can be easily resized or customized with respect to color. The license allows use in personal or commercial projects.

32. CSS Author

CSS Author is web development blog that releases free PSD design resources periodically. The icon packs include themes such as e-Commerce, shopping, social media line icons etc. All freebies are available for personal and commercial use.

33. Fontello

Fontello is an icon font generator. It has collections from Font Awesome, Typicons, Iconic, MFG Labs, Zocial etc. Fontello also provides a very helpful Github repository for guidance in using icon fonts in your own project.

34. Metrize Icons

You can find a 300 icon strong metro-style collection here. All the icons are available in PNG, SVG, AI, EPS, and PDF formats. They are also open for use in both personal and commercial projects. The design work well on both apps as well web projects.

35. Linear Icons

The 170 free icons are available at Linear Icons in two forms. One is as SVG, and the other is as Icon Font. Both are delivered via Amazon CloudFont, which means that these icons can be used by adding just a couple of lines of code to the source page.

36. Vecteezy

Vecteezy has over 25,000 free graphics ranging from themes such business, space, social media etc. The license for icons varies depending on the source providing them but most are free to use for personal and commercial projects.

37. Smashing Magazine

Smashing Magazine puts out tons of links regularly for freebies and icons. Themes include clothes, Christmas, summer, home appliances etc. All of these freebies come in a variety of formats such as PNG, SVG, AI etc.

38. Icon Gallery

Icon Gallery puts together all free icons for you in one place. These can come from freebies released by design firms, or independent designers, or maybe a design blog. Users can filter results based on licenses for use and backgrounds for the icons. The one restriction is that Icon Gallery displays only 32x32 icon results. Icon results move up in the search results based on popularity, license permissiveness, how new the set is etc.

39. Endless Icons

Endless Icons is a free icon library. Icons can be downloaded individually or as sets. All the icons are in a black outline and most feature thick lines. The project is the brain child of Min Kim, with the aim to provide free design and inspiration to the community.

P.S: Min Kim is also the person behind Endless Photos and Email-Gallery.

40. Open Iconic

Open Iconic is the free version of web icon set provider, Iconic. The highlight for icons at Open Iconic is the legibility at even 8 pixels. The file size is also considerably small (they claim to have 4 times smaller images than Font Awesome in the same format type). Open Iconic is also readily compatible with Bootstrap and Foundation framework.

41. Fusionplate

Fusionplate provide free web resources to web developers and designers. They also release free mock ups and web templates. The icons provided are free for use for personal and commercial projects and can readily be resized. However, one drawback is that the free icons are only on the themes of social media and SEO.

42. Pixelsmarket

Pixelsmarket releases design freebies and weekly resource updates for web designers. They have a good mix and match of vector icons, flat line icons, and solid icons. Most icons are downloadable as icon sets only. The downside with some icon packs is that they are not available in a lot of formats. This is the only limitation to what is otherwise an extensive collection of freebies.