About Icons8

July 8, 2010

We’re a team of 4 designers, 5 developers, and a content strategist. No two people live in the same city and we’re spread from New York to Melbourne.

Tools

Every day we use:

node.js
Sketch
Illustrator
Kanban board in JIRA
and Skype conferences with a shared screen

Mugs

Here’s the ugly portrait our founder created. We thought you guys might enjoy it:

Passion

We feel all 50 grades of grey when you use our icons, either free or for a fee. We like to:

create icons that the community asks for
create tools the community is asking for
and most of all, we like to surprise the community with something they didn’t even know they were missing.

And we receive a lot from the community:

the ideas for icons
usability testers
and even free ideas from some the best UI designers in the world

We really, really appreciate it. That’s why we have Disqus comments on our pages (even on the pricing page!), and we respond to each of your comments (even if it’s just “Thank you”).

Open Source

We use tons of open source software on our servers. Therefore, we feel in debt to the community and maintain our open source projects too.

Icons8 Flat Color Icons

Our open source library of flat color icons. Good boy license.

We Love SVG

Insert any of the 30 popular icon fonts in less than a minute. It’s based on our Webicon.

Icons8 Webicon

A lightweight JavaScript library that allows inserting icons from multiple icon collections with a single tag.

Icons8 Impresser

A server script that compiles Ajax websites into HTML for indexing by Google and social networks.

Icons8 WPF Framework

A set of templates for creating beautiful applications for Windows.

Also, we contribute our icons to open source projects.

Lotti

I think the idea of posting icons on requests is great, esp when its free for download, and especially when they look so nice. I like the whole october archive, and just wanted to say thank you!
- AnnaK
  
  Thanks!
Casey

Cool idea, I like it
- admin
  
  Thank you for your support.
Javier

Muy buenos, felicitaciones!!!…
Samir

Hi,

first of all, this is a great project.

I got a question:
I wanted to use some icons on my website for some tools I offer. The page is gonna be used mostly because of those tools. The layout of my website has none of these modern large footers with plenty of links, where I could publish a link to this site. Posting it somewhere else would ruin my UI. So the question is, is it possible to maybe get a third option for “where to place the links”, similar to the one with the about box, just for websites? I would not mind paying a fee for that, since I like the project anyways.

Thanks for the respons in advance,

Samir
- AnnaK
  
  Hi Samir,
  
  Thanks for your comment. We would be glad to hear your suggestions about the options for adding the link.
  - Zoran
    
    It would be nice if we could add just on one page link to your sites, just as we would do in apps.
    Even if we have to pay for that option, it would be cheaper than buying entire icon set.
shivam

hi these icons are in png formate, when i tries to change my computer icon with the one which i have downloaded from this site but when i browses for the icons and opens the icons the icons are not visible.
- AnnaK
  
  Shivam,
  
  ICO format is required. However we don’t provide this format.
Nam

Hi AnnaK,

Would you please provide a bigger size version of these icons ? For example 32×32 or 48×48 ?

Thanks,
- AnnaK
  
  Hi,
  
  We may provide the bigger sizes basing on our price list.
bluetune

Able to design some baby mother and child class icon?
- AnnaK
  
  bluetune, votes are collected here: https://icons8.uservoice.com/.
ckat

Dear Icon 8 Team!

I’d like to thank you for your great work, my idea or request would be to add the cathegory of the icons to their name instead of adding them into subfolders. Like in the fugue icon set. Then we could select icons at a glance in one folder. And the updates would be helpful if could be downloaded separately too to the set already downloaded.

Thank you
Joe

Nice work!
I just want to say thankyou for this free icon set. I love the black simple elegant style of this icons, they’re perfect for applications and websites.
Nigel

Dear Icon 8 Team!

I really like your icons! Simple and elegant. Still I would need them to be colored in order to look more userfriendly within my tool. I have a reference to icon8.com in my about. Is it okay if I colour them, lets say blue?
- AnnaK
  
  Nigel, thanks for the warm words about our work.
  
  Free icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. It means that you may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
  
  However you may purchase the icons for $199 in this case you may color them and use the icons wherever you want without placing the link. You can’t resell or redistribute them.
  - Nigel
    
    Hi Anna,
    
    thanks for your quick reply!
Max

Пожалуйста нарисуйте легкие иконки выделить все и инвертировать выделение! спасибо, у вас крутой проект.
PS Вы закрыли request из-за не успеваемости?
- AnnaK
  
  Max, спасибо!
  
  Request не закрывали – не работал. Уже починили. Ваш запрос добавили.
Christoph Gille

Hi,

At the beginning I was just after one specific icon, but when I looked at all your black/white icons I decided to change the entire program Strap.
Users say, that the UI is much clearer know. Take a look yourself: http://3d-alignment.eu.
Many thanks for providing these icons to the public.
They are great because they are so stupid simple and black/white.
Christoph
Author of Strap.
Christian Foellmann

Could I use the icons in a open-source project under BSD License? Or under GPL?
- AnnaK
  
  Christian,
  
  Yep, you may use the icons under BSD or GPL License.
Chris Hoffman

You guys rock! I am so glad I found you.
- Ivan
  
  so, how is it after three years? Still like the first time? 🙂
Thorvald

Thanks a lot. 🙂
Thomas Svensson

Hi,

Thx for the nice jobb!

Quick question… if I purchase the icons for $199, will I get all the new icons that you do in the future?

BR,
- AnnaK
  
  Hi,
  
  Updates for up to one year are included.
Mike

For a Windows 8 application the link would be in the Win 8 Store description then?
- AnnaK
  
  Mike, thanks for your question. Actually you should add the link to About screen. As for the Win 8 Store description: you shouldn’t but we’ll appreciate if you add it:)
Dima Nilsen

Real awesome service!! greate work. And I love your web site. What framework are you using building the website?
- Ivan
  
  It’s AngularJS + Yii + your love. Thanks!
- Paul
  
  Here is our stack http://stackshare.io/visualpharm/icons8
Dima Nilsen

Real awesome service!! greate work. And I love your web site. What framework are you using building the website?
- Ivan
  
  It’s AngularJS + Yii + your love. Thanks!
- Paul
  
  Here is our stack http://stackshare.io/visualpharm/icons8
Ivan

so, how is it after three years? Still like the first time? 🙂
remo chan

Thank you guys for existing 🙂
- Uliana
  
  No prob 🙂 We can say exactly the same thing about you 🙂
remo chan

Thank you guys for existing 🙂
- Uliana
  
  No prob 🙂 We can say exactly the same thing about you 🙂
Inal Karov

Чуваки, вы лучшие! Я очень хочу работать с вами!!
Nicholas Garzon

Great product, great content, great direction–I’m in love ? Congratulations, team! And thank you for your service to the community ?
Raj Vuppala

@icons8 team, Great work, a big Thank you.
- Eugenie
  
  Thanks a lot for your kind words, we appreciate it! =)
Jóhannes Valdimarsson

Awesome platform, guys! 👍🏻
- Eugenie
  
  Jóhannes, thanks for your kind words! We are happy that you like it! 😉
Truth

Hi really like you Guys . How i wish i could help also . : ) . Your work really motivates me . Thank you God Bless
- Eugenie
  
  Wow, thanks for your kind feedback! We are so happy to know it! 😃
FileHorse

Awesome products!

Labs

Free Cosmic Pedro

Open Source We Love SVG

Open Source Webicon