25 Icon Packs for Creating Natural Sketched Look for Your Website
We have been seeing more and more hand-drawn elements in web designs recently such as hand-drawn fonts, sketched-type background graphics and hand-drawn icons. This is no surprise and a great counterpoint for the Web 2.0 style which give us a lot of slick glossiness that was almost too perfect. Hand-drawn design therefore is a perfect contrast to the Web 2.0 design. So, if you’re tired of the Web 2.0 style and want to try the hand drawn style, here’s a list of hand-drawn icon packs that you can use for free.You may also use these icons to complement your other hand drawn elements in your design to project a more organic feel or to add a human touch to whatever you are working on.
Icon Pack 01 – Handy: 24 Free Exclusive Vector Icons
‘Handy’ is a set of 24 free and exclusive vector icons from Web Designer Depot that can be used on websites, logos and more.The icons have a unique hand drawn feeling and look great in color or black and white. The set also includes most social media websites, such as Delicious, Digg and many more.These icons are completely free for personal and commercial use.
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Icon Pack 02 – Color Stroked freehand Icon Set
Color Stroked freehand Icon set includes over 22 graphics tailored icons for your personal needs. You may download and use it as you like. This pack includes many social media icons such as Delicious, Digg, Flickr, StumbleUpon, Technorati ,Twitter and WindowsLive. Moreover, universally and OS based icons such Tux, Windows, Terminal, Firefox, OppenOffice, Gimp etc is now available in the Free(ColorStroked) icon pack. Lately, facebook, gmail, photoshop, devian ART icons were also added in the icon pack.
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Icon Pack 03 – Purple Lines
Drawn by hand and painted in watercolor these icons are beautiful in their warmth and organic feeling. A great substitute for the gleaming and shining icons for current operating systems out there.
Icon Pack 04 – Handycons: Hand drawn social media icon pack
Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed & Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32 and 48×48 pixels.
Icon Pack 05 – Handycons 2: Another hand drawn social media icon pack
This icon pack contains 20 more hand drawn icons. This time it is not limited just to social media related icons. The pack contains icons for Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr, FriendFeed, Furl, Gmail, Google, Heart icon, Last FM, Linked IN, Magnolia, Newsvine, PayPal, Skype, Sphinn, Twitter, Vimeo, Yahoo and You Tube icons. All icons come in four sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 64×64 and 12×128px. And they are all free.
Icon Pack 06 – Social Icons hand drawn (Updated)
This is the second version of this icon pack from Deviant Art user The G-Force and includes 18 popular websites, social media and browser’s icons in PNG format. The icons that are included in this set are:
Blip.fm, Digg, Facebook, Firefox, Flickr, Meneame, Myspace, Technorati, Twitter, Vimeo, Wordpress, Youtube
LastFM, RSS, Blogger, Gmail, Reddit and StumbleUpon. The icons are available in the following sizes: 24×24, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64. The use of this set is totally free under a Creative Commons license.
Icon Pack 07 – Web 2.0 Hand Drawn Icons
This pack contains social media icons which were hand drawn using colored pencil. Icons include craiglist, delicious, digg, facebook, feedburner, flickr, gmail, google, linkedin, mixx, myspace, reddit, rss, skype, stumbleupon, technorati, twitter, wordpress, yahoo and youtube icons. Available in five (5) different sizes in .png files(16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 256×256) and 3 .gif files(16×16, 24×24, 32×32) and 1windows .ico file and 1 .icns mac file. So in total, there are 200 files included in this pack.
Icon Pack 08 -19 Free hand-drawn sketch icons
These icons were drawn on paper with pen then scanned and cleaned up in Illustrator. Each icon is in jpeg and comes in two sizes: 48×48 and 96×96 pixels. Each is dark greyish on a white background. Ideal for adding some human touch to your design projects.
Icon Pack 09 – Red Little Shoes Icons
All icons are painted with brush and watercolor. There are two folders contained in this icon pack: the style ‘Omelette’(The yellow one) and ‘Red Folder’, which is actually design for released as Mac OSX icon although Windows user can also use them they just have to tweak it to suit their needs.
Icon Pack 10 – Sketched Up
Sketched Up is a sketchy web icon pack. The pack includes the vector version of the icons. You can use these icons for both personal and commercial purposes under a Creative Commons license.
Icon Pack 11 – Free Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set for Bloggers
This set of free hand drawn doodle icons includes 14 graphics tailored specifically for bloggers. Including social media graphics for Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technorati and Twitter as well as commonly used icons such as RSS, Home, Comments, Contact and Wordpress.
Icon Pack 12 – 49 Hand drawn icon set
For a unique and original look, try these hand drawn icons from Deviantart member Tutsii. The icons are available in 7 different sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256. These icons can be used for free under a Creative Commons License.
Icon Pack 13 – Hand Drawn Icon Set
The icons in this icon pack were drawn by hand using pencil on notebook paper, scanned and made into icons. Minimal touch ups were performed such as sharpening, erasing stray marks that were not part of the icon, resizing, etc. The icons are in the following sizes (one .ico file includes all three sizes):16×16, 32×32, 48×48, and in the following bit depths: 8-bit,16-bit and32-bit (XP only). Also included are 128×128 .PNG files for porting (see Creative Commons license) which should work as-is in most *nix GUIs.
Icon Pack 14 – Permanent Marker, Set 1
These icons were hand-drawn and edited in The GIMP. Included in this set are the following icons: CD, Home, Mail, Money, Notebook, Photos, Search, Spreadsheet, Time (Clock), User, Web and Word Processor. This icon pack can be used for personal purposes only.
Icon Pack 15 – Permanent Marker, Set 2
Included in this icon pack are the following: Cloud, Flower, Glasses, iPod Off, iPod On, Leaf, Light Bulb, Pencil, Puzzle Piece, Trash Empty, Trash Full, T-Shirt
Icon Pack 16 – Handy: 24 Free Exclusive vector Icons
Icon Pack 17 – Natsu Icon Set
Icon Pack 18 – Hand Drawn Vector Icons
Icon Pack 19- Hand Drawn Icons, First Set
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Icon Pack 20- Hand Drawn Icons, Second Set
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Icon Pack 21 -hand Drawn Icons by Super Lego Man on DA
Icon Pack 22 – Digimon Icons
Icon Pack 23 – Hand Drawn Christmas Icons
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Icon Pack 24 – Hand Drawn Icon Set for Bloggers
Icon Pack 25 – Handy: 24 Free Exclusive vector Icons
cool. thank you for sharing.
Nice Icons. New concepts.
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nice roundup for sketched icons, thanks for list..
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Really wonderful collection… Useful List. Thanks for sharing this.
-Deepu
Thanks so much for gathering all the bests in this one spot! I’m looking to redesign and am trying to put together a “sketched” feel for my blog. This is exactly what I had in mind for some of the minor details. If you have any other font, design etc type resources you’ve come across in the past that would work for a sketched/journal type design, I would really appreciate if you could let me know!! Thanks again.
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