How it Works: How to Order Icons for Free
The idea of this blog is: you order icons you want, we draw them for free (normally we do it for large businesses for $80 apiece).
Q. What’s the small print?
A. We do only three icons a day. No work on weekends.
Update: Max 5 icons per request, please.
What icons do we choose? The ones our community voted for.
Votes are collected here:
https://icons8.uservoice.com/
About Windows 8 Icons (Metro Style)
Microsoft introduced Metro style, the UI of Windows 8. Look at the quick introduction:
Unlike Vista and Windows 7 icons (we’ve made lots of free ones too), Windows 8 presents simple, monochrome icons.
Other Uses
- OS (iPhone and iPad) tab bars
- Wayfinding (public space navigation)
- Presentations
- You name it.
Use Policy
These icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. You can use them for your websites and applications for free. Just link to either
- Icons8 (this site)
- or VisualPharm.com (the team behind the project), it’s up to you.
Where to put this link?
- For websites, put a link from each page you use our icons on
- For applications, put a link in the About box
I think the idea of posting icons on requests is great, esp when its free for download, and especially when they look so nice. I like the whole october archive, and just wanted to say thank you!
Thanks!
Cool idea, I like it
Thank you for your support.
Muy buenos, felicitaciones!!!…
Hi,
first of all, this is a great project.
I got a question:
I wanted to use some icons on my website for some tools I offer. The page is gonna be used mostly because of those tools. The layout of my website has none of these modern large footers with plenty of links, where I could publish a link to this site. Posting it somewhere else would ruin my UI. So the question is, is it possible to maybe get a third option for “where to place the links”, similar to the one with the about box, just for websites? I would not mind paying a fee for that, since I like the project anyways.
Thanks for the respons in advance,
Samir
Hi Samir,
Thanks for your comment. We would be glad to hear your suggestions about the options for adding the link.
It would be nice if we could add just on one page link to your sites, just as we would do in apps.
Even if we have to pay for that option, it would be cheaper than buying entire icon set.
hi these icons are in png formate, when i tries to change my computer icon with the one which i have downloaded from this site but when i browses for the icons and opens the icons the icons are not visible.
Shivam,
ICO format is required. However we don’t provide this format.
Hi AnnaK,
Would you please provide a bigger size version of these icons ? For example 32×32 or 48×48 ?
Thanks,
Hi,
We may provide the bigger sizes basing on our price list.
Able to design some baby mother and child class icon?
bluetune, votes are collected here: https://icons8.uservoice.com/.
Dear Icon 8 Team!
I’d like to thank you for your great work, my idea or request would be to add the cathegory of the icons to their name instead of adding them into subfolders. Like in the fugue icon set. Then we could select icons at a glance in one folder. And the updates would be helpful if could be downloaded separately too to the set already downloaded.
Thank you
Nice work!
I just want to say thankyou for this free icon set. I love the black simple elegant style of this icons, they’re perfect for applications and websites.
Dear Icon 8 Team!
I really like your icons! Simple and elegant. Still I would need them to be colored in order to look more userfriendly within my tool. I have a reference to icon8.com in my about. Is it okay if I colour them, lets say blue?
Nigel, thanks for the warm words about our work.
Free icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. It means that you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
However you may purchase the icons for $199 in this case you may color them and use the icons wherever you want without placing the link. You can’t resell or redistribute them.
Hi Anna,
thanks for your quick reply!
Пожалуйста нарисуйте легкие иконки выделить все и инвертировать выделение! спасибо, у вас крутой проект.
PS Вы закрыли request из-за не успеваемости?
Max, спасибо!
Request не закрывали – не работал. Уже починили. Ваш запрос добавили.
Hi,
At the beginning I was just after one specific icon, but when I looked at all your black/white icons I decided to change the entire program Strap.
Users say, that the UI is much clearer know. Take a look yourself: http://3d-alignment.eu.
Many thanks for providing these icons to the public.
They are great because they are so stupid simple and black/white.
Christoph
Author of Strap.
Could I use the icons in a open-source project under BSD License? Or under GPL?
Christian,
Yep, you may use the icons under BSD or GPL License.
You guys rock! I am so glad I found you.
Thanks a lot.
Hi,
Thx for the nice jobb!
Quick question… if I purchase the icons for $199, will I get all the new icons that you do in the future?
BR,
Hi,
Updates for up to one year are included.
For a Windows 8 application the link would be in the Win 8 Store description then?
Mike, thanks for your question. Actually you should add the link to About screen. As for the Win 8 Store description: you shouldn’t but we’ll appreciate if you add it:)