15 Websites To Get Awesome Icons For Your Marketing Materials
Icons are an excellent graphic for pointing out important information, alerting your audience to specialized info, or to add a visual to break up long blocks of text. In catalog printing, use an arrow icon, for example, to point to special offers. Many logo designs include the use of icons to enhance memory retention of the company. Icons are also great for use on websites as buttons, such as a printer icon that visitors can click on to print the information on your page.
It’s easy to find free icons for use on your website, but you have to be careful when downloading a free icon for use in printed materials, since the wrong resolution will result in pixilated or blurry images, as well as icons that are too tiny to see. When finding icons for print, be sure to download the vector version so that you can resize the icon for your printed marketing materials. Here are the top 10 websites for some of the most professional icons available, along with some tutorials for creating your own.
Bright! A Free Icon Set
There are 148 hand-crafted icons that will look amazing in both print and web designs in the bright collection.
Vistaicons.com
Search through the vast icon database of vistaicons.com. From travel, container, social media icons to icons for web application use, they offer a versatile collection that can be used both online and off.
Milky, parts 1-8
Some more amazing free icons from the same designers who brought us the Bright collection.
Icons Etc.
Mysitemyway.com provides an impressive collection of free icons, including glossy, glass, and splatter textures. The denim blue jeans collection would make a great addition to a clothes catalog printing design.
AiVault Vector Freebies and Resources
Along with professional vector icons, you’ll also find patterns and tutorials for designing your own vectors.
Free Vector Graphics - Sticker Icons
Youthedesigner always provides useful resources, and here they’ve done it again. These sticker icons would work well in a catalog printing design as they would for web.
Goodies by RoundPixel.org
This site contains a variety of icons that would work great for catalog printing, brochure printing, and more. All are free and can be used for both personal and commercial use.
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