20 free icons dedicated to programmers

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icons, graphics, images, free
Posted
Thu 10 Jan, 2008
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2

The Helicoid Icon Set is a collection of icons we use in our applications, including:

  • Navigational cues
  • Credit card images
  • Scalable buttons
  • Images to enhance web applications

Why are we giving these icons away for free?

As the lead programmer and designer of Helicoid’s applications, I’ve worked ridiculously hard over the last year at two jobs: programming and design. Programming software is my passion, but I’ve had to teach myself design skills in order to get our applications released on a shoestring budget.

I realised there might be a lot of programmers out there in a similar situation (especially open source developers), so these icons are dedicated to you. If you open them up in Adobe’s Illustrator (or try the SVG file with an open source image editor) you’ll find it’s easy to change colours around and scale the icons.

License

These icons are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.


Creative Commons License

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Dmitry Savvateev

Apr 15

Thanks, I might use some for my web photo albums. I've been (lazily) looking for navigation arrow icons to replace ugly '>>>' things. I think you are doing the right thing releasing the stuff to the public. Does attribution actually means that I should mention the origin of the images on each page that use them?

Alex

Apr 16

The main reason we wanted attribution was so people would share the icons by announcing where they came from, so you could put a link anywhere in relation to the work (copyright page, your blog, portfolio) -- rather than at the bottom of each page.

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