: What are some good resource for programmers to design icons? I'm a programmer and find myself needing to draw icons frequently. Does anyone have any good resources for both the tools and how

@Gail6891361

A good place to find inspiration for icons as well as downloadable icons themselves is:


The Noun Project, which aims to have a vector icons for every noun. Icons here are high contrast black and white ones.

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@Harper654

I am a great fan of Icomoon. Loads and loads of free icons. You can upload your own svg-images (made in, for example illustrator) and then have a complete set scalable, easily accessible icons: icomoon.io/

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@Sarah814

I'm using Greenfish Icon Editor Pro. It is totally free of charge! It is by far the best free icon editor I have ever tried. I specially like the feature to replace a color component with transparency. This is great to remove a background color and preserving smooth edges on the image.

From the description of the product on the download site:


GFIE Pro is a powerful icon, cursor, animation and icon library editor. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing small pixelgraphic images. GFIE offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow; supports editing animated cursors and managing icon libraries. It's lightweight (< 1.8 MB unzipped) and also has a portable version - just unpack it to your USB drive and use it anywhere. A clean, customizable, multilanguage user interface makes it really easy to learn and use.

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@Bryan765

Visual Studio (especially 2010) includes a large set of icons, in C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0Common7VS2010ImageLibrary1033VS2010ImageLibrary.zip

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@Welton168

IconWorkshop is nice. You can open a PNG file here and save it as an icon file. I use this.

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@Ann6370331

If you're using OS X, I tend to like Pixen, myself.

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@Voss6371140

The best icon set I've used has to be the Fugue Icon set by Yusuke Kamiyamane. The set is licensed under the Creative Common Attribution License and royalty-free for a reasonable fee. It's a great deal considering there are 3300+ detailed icons. You also get the PSD files too. I find these icons are especially good for web apps. The down side is they're 16x16.

If you want to create your own, I suggest reading tutorials on tutsplus.com, especially vector.tutsplus.com since icons should be created in vector for scaling..

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