Best websites for Finding Free and Modern Icons
1. Font Awesome
Font Awesome is a great resource that is super easy to use in projects. With so many icons, you’ll probably find icons that suit your needs. One of the great things about Font Awesome is that it includes a ton of brand and logo icons.
The only downside to Font Awesome is that it can sometimes be hard to find exactly what you are looking for. However, there is search functionality and the icons are divided into categories, which is helpful in most cases.
2. Linea
Linea consists of 730 outlined website icons, although there are no social or brand icons. The website icons are grouped into five different categories: Basic (general icons), Music, Ecommerce, Software, Basic Elaboration (more general icons), Arrows, and Weather. These icons are free for you to use in personal and commercial project, but do require attribution.
3. Good Stuff No Nonsense
Although most icon packs are paid, Good Stuff No Nonsense currently offers five free icon packs, including a pack of social icons. Admittedly, I haven’t used these in a project (yet!), but I stumbled across the website recently and fell in love. These website icons are special because they are hand drawn from start to finish, by one person: first, they are created in pencil, then inked, and then traced by hand in illustrator. They are perfect if you are looking for something a bit more whimsical and playful, but still professional. These website icons do not require attribution.
4. Flaticon
Flaticon hosts 2840500+ different website icons, organized into different packs created by different designers. With such a huge number of website icons, you can find an icon for anything. Want Pokemon icons? They have those (over 100 of them!). Need an icon of a jellyfish? There’s over 50.
This site is great because you can browse different icon styles all in one place. With the vast number of website icons and packs, there’s sure to be some that match what you’re looking for. You must credit the designer; to avoid this, you can become a premium member.
5. IcoMoon
This icon set has a similar aesthetic to Font Awesome, although it doesn’t have quite as many website icons in the free version. However, there are social icons, as well as a handful of icons that aren’t included in Font Awesome, such as some cool smiley faces. The free pack does not require attribution. Icomoon also has a couple other icon packs that you have to pay for, as well as premium versions of the free pack.
6. Iconfinder
Is there even such a thing as free icons? Iconfinder is trying to prove that there is, and with tens of thousands of free icons up for grabs; we know these guys are doing something right. Similarly to the previous platform, Iconfinder runs most of its free icons under the CC 3.0 license.
7. Icons8
Icons8 has to be one of my favorite icons sites in recent years, not only because they publish great design content and design tips, but also because they are truly dedicated to making the web more visually-friendly.
You can Recolor, add Overlays, or add custom Text as part of the modification. Furthermore, you can enable custom effects such as Strokes, Backgrounds, Padding, and more.
8. Iconstore
Iconstore is different from most of the sites mentioned in this post. And it is so because Iconstore focuses on unique and original icon packs from well-recognized design agencies.
You can go a step deeper, and search icons based on categories, such as Food, Technology, Multimedia, Design, Development, Business, and many other categories.
9. Material Icons
Material Design had a lot of potential, but not everyone was adamant to use it in their day-to-day projects. And it wouldn’t surprise us if eventually, Google remained the only platform to still use Material Design in their projects.
Nevertheless, the icons provided by Material are still very much amazing, and can be adapted to designs outside of Material style guide, too. Not to mention that there’s hundreds of free icons you can choose from, ideal for both website projects and any kind of graphic design outside of websites as well.
10. Freeicons
Similar to one of the sites we already looked at, FreeIcons is dedicated to highlighting only the most prominent of Icon Packs.
Each pack consists of up to 100 icons, and most are incredibly well-designed. The overall theme seems to be oriented towards tech-related icons for the most part.
But rest assured that you can find icons also on subjects such as travel, food, women, country-specific, and more.
And, you can choose from styles such as 3D, Cartoon, Hand Drawn, Badges, Smooth, and many others.
11. Streamline
Streamline has been in the biz for a number of years. And their 3.0 release celebrates more than 30,000 unique icons. We’re not just talking some average-looking icons either.
Most of the popular website-related products use Streamline as their go-to choice for providing icons to their clients. E.g. If you ever use the WPBakery Page Builder plugin, you’ll generally be recommended to use the Streamline icon library.
