Let’s go straight to the workshops of the amazing and talented graphic designers and see what they have prepared for you today. For this article, we have collected 50 of the best free icon packs 2021 you can download and use for your personal projects, websites, brochures, infographics, and presentations. The sets feature basics, essentials, and specific topics, all made in styles that follow the latest design trends.
The following packs are ideal for personal projects, most of them for commercial use as well. The icons are suitable for multiple purposes, available in vector file formats, as there as we’ve added a handful of unique sets based on specific topics such as education, eCommerce, travel, food, ecology, gaming, and more.
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Article overview:
1. Base Sets: The Essentials
2. Animated Icon Sets
3. Social Media Icons
4. Icon Packs on Specific Subjects
1. Base Sets: The Essentials
Let’s start with the bigger multi-purpose icons sets that offer more options and topics to choose from.
These sets are usually made in a more simplistic outline style to match all sorts of designs. The best part is, you can easily edit the strokes of the outline graphics so combining icons from different sets to fit your project is very much possible.
Google Material Icons for Adobe XD
The pack includes 1000 icons:
- 250 Action Icons
- 5 Alert Icons
- 84 Audio/Video Icons
- 70 Communication Icons
- 60 Content Icons
- 80 Devices Icons and many more
* The page offers a link to Google Drive for a direct Download
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Line Icon Set
The pack includes:
- 110 General Essential Icons
- 70 Electronics Icons
- 40 eCommerce Icons
- 60 Web Icons
- 20 Location Icons
- 40 Arrows
- 30 Weather Icons
* The page offers a link to DropBox for a direct Download
Crispy Icons Set
The pack includes:
- 80 Crispy Icons
- Multipurpose
- Pixel- perfect
- Vector
- Stroke Adjustment
- PSD, Ai, SVG, Webfont
- Free personal and commercial use
* The page offers a link to Freebiesbug for a direct Download
Cute Icons Pack (with 28 Free Icons)
800+ Really cute icons pack with 28 free icons included – you can find food, transport, security, travel, sport, education, business, and many other icons in this pack. Enjoy flat, outline, and colorful styles for all the illustrations in the bundle.
Go to FREE Download
Glass Icons Set
A rather small set of 16 icons beautifully crafted to resemble colored glass. The set includes XD and Sketch files.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to Gumroad, enter $0 for Free Download
WEO Icons Set Essentials
More than 400 free icons in a flat rounded style available for any kind of personal project. The icons are clean and work well with any design. Not available for commercial use.
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140 Multi-purpose Stroke Icons
Free icons for personal and commercial use. It’s a good base set of miscellaneous items for different purposes.
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Popular Solid Icons
A part of 800+ essential icons set, the free version offers 124 icons in a simplistic solid style with rounded colors.
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Sugar SVG Icons
This sets features 60 vibrant sugar-sweet SVG icons for Sketch.
- 2 Artboards 1x [24×24] and 2x [48×48] Grid
- Smart Color Swatch Symbols
- Sliced SVG and PNG (1x 2x 3x)
* The page offers a link to Gumroad, enter $0 for Free Download
200 Essential Icons
These 200+ essential icons are a perfect base for any project. The collection is ideal for any web or mobile project. Use this icon pack from wireframes, prototypes, UX flows to final high fidelity pixels.
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100 Free Gradient Icons
1000 New Gradient icons pack with a super clean design, sharp details, and trendy gradient colors The set also includes a free version of 100 icons to download and test the quality of the pack.
Go to FREE Download100+ Light Icons
112 multipurpose icons with light strokes and a simplistic style.
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Editable Icons Set
100 editable stroke icons, a fine addition to the previous pack.
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150 Vector Icons
This pack features vector graphics in 15 different categories, ideal for websites, ioS, Android, and Apps. The icons are easy to customize and cover various topics such as weather, medicine, music, food, education, and business.
Available in Ai, EPS, and PNG
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2. Animated Icons
In addition to the essential base sets, you can always spice things up with some beautiful eye-grabbing animated icons. The following sets offer a handful of those GIF, AE, and Lottie JSON formats to use in any project.
UI Animated Icons
This source offers more than 500 free animated icons in GIF, AE, and Lottie JSON formats to choose from. Simply click on the icon you like and download it.
Go to FREE DownloadFree Animated Icon Set
The archive attached contains 24 icons in several formats and resolutions:
- CSS SVG for Web
- PNG-sprites for iOS & Android (24 & 48px versions)
- Lottie JSON for React Native
- Static icons in PNG + SVG
Animated Media Icons
Over 400 animated iOS icons available in JSON for Lottie, GIF, and After Effects format.
Go to FREE Download
The rest of the sources feature smaller but extremely high-quality freebie packs based on particular topics, fields, activities, and purposes.
Free Contacts Pack
22 Social Media and contact icons in 10 different styles and color schemes.
Go to FREE DownloadSocial Circles Pack
Here we have 60 social icons in 2 different color shades and 2 different styles.
Go to FREE DownloadSocial Media Bundle
30 original Social Media icons (vectors) collected from official brand guidelines.
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4. Icon Packs On Specific Subjects
In this category, we’ve collected icon packs on different topics such as office life, travel, eCommerce, kitchen, education, weather, computer games, and many more. So take your pick and see what works best for your personal projects.
12 Business Icons
This set has 12 lovely icons in line and colored versions.
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12 Medical Icons
This set has 12 medical icons in line and colored versions.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to DropBox for a direct Download
8 Educational Icons Pack
The graphics are dedicated to educational and scientific themes and can be used both in print and web projects. They come in beautiful flat designs and are a wonderful addition to any design and presentation.
This pack includes:
- 8 Vector education icons
- Included files: AI, EPS, PDF, PNG
- Well Structured and organized files
- Layered vector files
12 Cosmetics Icons
This set has 12 cosmetics icons in line and colored versions.
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12 Baby Icons
This set has 12 baby icons in line and colored versions.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to DropBox for a direct Download
108 Holiday Icons
You can find snowmen, Christmas cookies, and Santa Claus, Easter eggs and bunnies, Halloween pumpkins and witch hats, spring and summer graphics, St.Patrick and St.Valentine’s illustrations all crafted in colorful, simple flat design style.
This pack includes:
- 108 Vector Holiday icons
- Included files: AI, EPS, PDF, PNG
- Well Structured and organized files
- Layered vector files
20 Banking Vector Icons
Banking icons for projects related to the banking sector. The set comes with vector format allowing easy editing and customization.
Go to FREE Download12 Building Vector Icons
This pack of building vector icons is available for download, edit and customize to fit into your next design project.
Go to FREE DownloadFree Office Life Icon Pack
50 awesome icons by Aakash Raj Dahal from his Office Life Icon Set offered for free. There are two icon weights for you to choose from – light and regular.
Go to FREE Download12 Coffee Icons
This set has 12 coffee icons in line and colored versions.
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9 Icons From Outer Space
Rocket, UFO, planets, telescope, and all the cool space stuff.
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77 Space Icons
The pack features 77 amazing hand-drawn graphics related to space, including some fanart icons of SciFi characters from popular sagas and tv-shows such as Star Wars, Rick and Morty and etc.
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15 Flower Icons
Pay attention to this cute Flower Icon Set. A collection of trendy flower icons will help you to improve your blog on social networks. Also, you can use this flower set for any different purpose.
Go to FREE Download30 Pandemic Icons in 3D
These professionally made vector icons feature 30+ pieces dedicated to the subject of pandemic and the precautions that need to be taken. The icons are available in PNG for free download.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to DropBox for a direct Download
36 Influencer Icon Pack
36 Free Youtuber, influencer SVG, and PNG icons. This vector icon pack contains YouTubers, influencers, Instagram, Facebook, subscribe, like, heart, promotion, sales, speech bubbles, video, photography, mobile phone, favorite, star icons, and more.
Go to FREE Download10 Valentine’s Day Pack
This set features 5 St Valentine’s Day icons in 2 different styles in terms of background shapes and colors. The graphics were crafted by Weronika Ostrowska as a personal project and the designer offer them for free for personal and professional projects.
Go to FREE Download6 Artificial Intelligence Icons
6 high-quality glass AI/Machine learning-related icons for free use. You can download Sketch and Figma files to play with colors.
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8 eCommerce Icons
Short but sweet pack of 8 eCommerce icons that you can download for free and use in your projects.
Go to FREE Download48 eCommerce Icons
48 eCommerce vector icons, easily editable and multipurpose. Made in minimalism, they are suitable for iOS, Android & Web.
Go to FREE Download25 Ecology Icons Set
Keep it green both in material and icons as this set presents 25 ecology vector icons that highlight the importance of recycling, natural resources, and energy conservation.
Go to FREE Download16 Food Icons
It fits perfectly into any of your design projects and is well compatible with my other icon sets.
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16 Fruits and Vegetables
Icons for quick-start your food & delivery projects. You can purchase fruits and vegetables separately.
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10 Fast Food Icons in 3D
10 Beautiful high-resolution vector icons with realistic fast food illustrations.
Go to FREE Download10 Cooking Icons
10 Free Cooking Icon for your projects, made in hand-drawn doodle style.
Go to FREE Download52 Free Kitchen Icons
Cooking vector icons for chefs who are running cooking websites, and hobbyists.
Go to FREE Download60 Travel Icons
Free travel set with 60 colorful icons suitable for any kind of project related to traveling, holidays, tourism, and more.
Go to FREE Download12 Nerdy Flat Icons
Knowledge is the light in the darkness of ignorance. These flat icons work the same: they highlight your designs in a huge flow of the other ones.
Go to FREE Download3 Gaming Icons
3 detailed designer icons for gaming projects with colorful high-contrast background shapes. The set features a PS joystick, weapons and No.1 cup.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to Google Drive for a direct Download
20 Smart Home Icons
20 Amazing Smart Home Icons
- Pixel perfect details
- Made with love 🙂
- Grid size 128px
- Included SVG & PNG icons
- Free Update
* The page offers a link to Gumroad, enter $0 for Free Download
25 Drawing Tools
Simplistic stroke icons with drawing tools, suitable for artists, architects, and students.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to Google Drive for a direct Download
And some cool bonus packs…
16 Free flat avatar icons collection.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to Google Drive for a direct Download
60+ irresistable fancy holo stickers.
Go to FREE Download* The page offers a link to Google Drive for a direct Download
That’s it!
We hope you enjoyed this year’s selection of free icon pack resources to download in 2021. Before using, make sure to read the licensing rules first. Some of the icons are available for personal use only, while others – are for personal and commercial use. Either way, you can use these for your websites, infographics, or any sort of project.
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3. Social Media Icons