Icons are very important because they will make your products, webpages or design appearances look better and more attractive. However, high quality and beautiful free to use icons always hard to find when you need them suddenly. So, thanks to those designers for making our jobs easier by providing us handy free to use websites to download remarkable high quality HQ icons set.

Some of the icons copyright belongs original author, more information please refer to the author’s License agreement before you use it for commercial purposes. Public usage license can be found on each icon set page.

The 8 websites here you can find and download high quality icons for free:

1. Free Icons Web

FreeIconsWeb is a website where you can browse and download high quality free icons in popular formats like: .png, and .gif formats. for your Windows, Macintosh and Linux Operating Systems, also for your website. With over 15,000 icons, you will find many quality PC icons like desktop icons, Windows XP and Vista icons, Mac OS X icons, icons for Linux; PNG Transparent format icons, socila media icons for webdesign use, etc.

2. Dry Icons

At dryicons’s free icons section, you will find rare icons in high quality such as colorful stickers free icon set, coquette free icon set, artistica free icon set, luna grey icon, etc.

3. Free Icons Download

A place of design showcase for high quality royalty free icons for Windows, Mac and Linux. The website has Ico, Gif, Bmp, Png and various icons format.

4. Best Free Icons

A great location for for icons searcher to find the best free icons in different categories. This website has more than 20,000+ high quality icons and still adding more. The icons here you can download at free of cost without having to pay for them. You can even use the search bar to find your niche icons.

5. Icons Pedia

Your source of free PNG icons and icon packs. Find popular brand icons like Gucci icons, Quartz icons, iPhone icons, Youtube icons. The site has a very loyal user base with already over 7000 del.icio.us bookmarks in just a few months.

6. Vista Icons

A great world for quality free Vista style icons, Vista icon Sets and Windows Vista desktop icons collectors.

7. Icon Pot

Icon Pot is different to other icon-related websites as the website only list icons which you can use for free on personal and commercial projects without having to provide back-links/credit to the author. You will find whole bunch of icons which are all great to use for your web development projects there.

8. Icon Archive

A huge categorized collection of great high quality desktop & web icon sets, other PC icons can be used for Windows (XP, Vista, etc.), Macintosh (OSX, OS) and Linux (as PNG Files). The website currently host over 25,900 stock icons in 911 sets from 217 icon authors.