I need to source some graphics/icons for my application I'm writing (Windows WinForms). I need graphics for toolbar buttons, icons for form headers and graphics for wizard dialog boxes.
As a last resort I'm willing to create them myself - a move that might make them (and my whole application) look amazingly bad.
What are some good sources (free or not) where I can get these kinds of programmer icons? I'd like the icons to be at least 32x32 256 color.
I recommend Tango. they are beautiful, and free (as in free speech, and free beer). I use them a lot in my applications.
Go to "Silk icons" on http://www.famfamfam.com/ for free "XP style" icons.
Visual Studio has been shipped with a fairly nice collection of bitmaps and icons for quite some time now - a well-hidden and often unknown treasure.
There's a ZIP file (almost 10 MB!) containing those stock icons and bitmaps at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\VS2008ImageLibrary\1033 (for VS 2008 - similar path for VS 2005), but as far as I know, it's an optional installation component - so you might not have it installed.
These icons and bitmaps are actually really quite nice! And as far as I understand the rules (but the standard I-am-not-a-lawyer disclaimer applies) these icons and bitmaps can be used in your Visual Studio projects.
If those aren't enough or not a big enough variety, I can recommend the GlyFX icon sets wholeheartedly - excellent quality, great work, and affordable (not free though).
Marc
I highly recommend Icon Shock. You get a huge collection of icons in many sizes and formats.
Today I found http://pinvoke.com/. It's very good alternative to famous FamFamFam collection. Considering FamFamFam was last updated 3 years ago, this is up-to-date collection of over 2,000 silk icons (16x16).
The best sites for FREE, HIGH QUALITY and PRETTY icons afaik are:
You can search for keywords and you get a full list of nice, colored icons in different sizes (up to 512 pixels) and you can download them in different formats like: .png, .ico and others. These are also available as packs (icons with the same theme).
Here you can browse the available icons. You have the same options as before (get icons in different sizes and download them in different formats).
I hope you will find these as useful as I did.
