When working on design projects its always essential to have a good collection of icons. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs. Having the right icons can help to make a web design look much more professional and complete. Fortunately, there are some excellent free icon sets available that offer very high quality icons. In this post we’ll feature 40 Icon sets that are totally fresh and free for you to download. Keep these icon sets handy and they will meet your needs for most projects.

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Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons. Some of these icons are for personal use only, make sure you always check the license before using the icons.

1. Page Peel – A Free Social Media Iconset

The set contains 16 social icons in (transparent)PNG format.

2. Page Peel Social Icons – Version 2

The icons are transparent PNGs and the available dimensions are 128 x 128 and 64×64

3. 330 Free Letter Pressed Icons

A collection of over a 100 letter pressed icons, in various letter pressed styles. The icons include three PSD files which are full of icons which you can drag and drop into your designs.

4. Watercolor Free Icon Pack

Each icon is in .png format sized at 256×256px with transparent backgrounds. The 36 different icons have varying opaquness that allow the background and texture seep through the icons like watercolor on canvas.

5. Free Social Media Icons

FolderIcons is free, a folder style social media icon set. This package contain icons for cypherbox, blinklist, blogger, delicious, digg, facebook, mixx, reddit, rss, stumbleupon, technoratti, twitter, WordPress and youtube.

6. Sketchy Web Icons: 30 Hand Drawn Icon Pack

FolderIcons is free, a folder style social media icon set. This package contain icons for cypherbox, blinklist, blogger, delicious, digg, facebook, mixx, reddit, rss, stumbleupon, technoratti, twitter, WordPress and youtube.

7. Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Icons

Each icon is in .png format sized at 128×128px with transparent backgrounds. The pack comes with a .PSD source file so that you can customize your own icons.

8. Social Cubes

A set of 18 high quality icons.

9. Social Sketches

All the icons are done in sketch style, which brings them a new look and makes them especially fit for grunge/hand-drawn themed websites.

10. Web User Interface

The Web User Interface vector icon pack is a group of five free beautiful and high quality icons.

11. 2 Awesome Twitter Icons

The Web User Interface vector icon pack is a group of five free beautiful and high quality icons.

12. 8 icons

First attempt of designing icons for a school assignment.

13. REDmillion Stupid looking Twitter Bird

14. Cute Blogging Icon Set

10 high quality blogging icons in PNG format.

15. Android icons for developers

30 PNG menu icons plus the additional source files for further customization.

16. WooFunction

178 Amazing Web Design Icons.

17. 27 Circular Social Media Icons in 3 Sizes

The icons are AIM, Bebo, eBay, Hi5, Last.fm, LinkedIn, Windows Live, Ning, Orkut and Yahoo Messenger.

18. Woven Fabric Social Media Icon Set

There are a total of 26 icons available as transparent PNGs.

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20. Nice Social Media Icons

16×16, 32×32, 64×64 PNG icons.