There are literally thousands of icon sets out there. Some are free for personal use, some free for commercial use and many are paid sets. We often come across sites that feature great icon sets that they claim as “free,” with no explanation as to whether they are personal or commercial licenses (they are often only free for personal use).

To clear things up and provide icons that you can actually use for your projects, we have compiled our own list of only the best icon sets that we could find that are all completely free for COMMERCIAL use. Enjoy!

E-Commerce Set:

License (from the downloads page of their web site):
“Available e-commerce icons may be used in any projects, whether commercial or private nature. Please refer the ZIP archive with shop symbols not directly, but I would appreciate a link to this post. Thank you.”

Download it now! http://playground.ebiene.de/2316/free-ecommerce-icons/

Circular Icon Set:

License:
“Circular is free to use for whatever you like without attribution – the only thing we ask is that you don’t distribute them yourself!”

Download it now! http://prothemedesign.com/circular-icons/

Stationary Icon Set:

License:
“100% Free”

Download it now! http://www.dezinerfolio.com/freebie/stationery-free-vector-icon-set

Bright Icon Set:

License:
“You can use Bright! for personal and commercial projects at free of charge. What I only need in return is your comments and backlinks, if possible. Do not redistribute or sell any icons of this set. Do not provide the direct download link nor upload Bright! onto other servers for your own share (Please link to this article instead – I deserve some traffic!).If you want to spread the words, just link to this article.”

Download it now! http://min.frexy.com/article/bright_a_free_icon_set/

Project Icon Set:

License:
“completely FREE… (even commercial use)”

Download it now! http://www.dezinerfolio.com/freebie/project-icon-set

Shiny Icon Set:

License:
“This free set includes 20 icons that you can use for both personal and commercial projects. Resell and distribution is not allowed.”

Download it now! http://www.doublejdesign.co.uk/2009/11/a-free-icon-set-shiny/

The Ultimate Free Icon Set:

License:
“You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.”

Download it now! http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/18/freebie-release-quartz-icon-set/

As with any other freebie, we highly suggest reviewing the license on these sites directly as it may have changed since this article was written. If you catch one that is no longer accurate, do let us know!

We’d love to hear about your favorite free (commercial) icon sets, leave us yours in the comments!

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