5 Great Websites for Free Social Icon Sets
Free Social Icon Sets
It’s difficult for many people to remember a time before social networking platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. The major networks are each fewer than fifteen years old, and the earliest platforms were hardly the deeply interconnected marketing platforms they are today. Most began their existence as collections of personal profiles, with little to set them apart from early personal website networks. Today, we depend upon social media to do business, and to keep in touch with friends and family, whether our contacts are just down the street or on the other side of the Earth.
Social integration is important for any website looking to capture an audience. One of the most overlooked aspects of this integration is the choice of which social icon sets to use. Social icons are the little button images which users will click to visit your Facebook page, or to tweet a link to your website. The right icons will match your website’s appearance, enhancing its visual appeal and professional quality. Here are five websites which offer selections of free social icon sets, to help spruce up the appearance of your personal or professional online presence.
Colorlib
Colorlib is a WordPress theme website which offers an expansive database of free and low-cost resources to meet a wide range of needs. Themes focus on the visual appeal of a website, and Colorlib maintains an assortment of varied social icon sets to go along with their selection. These can be downloaded for free from their blog, which also maintains links to other online resources for social icon sets and related imagery.
Iconfinder
As their name suggests, Iconfinder is in the business of providing social media and other icons to website owners and web designers. Many of their products are only available commercially; they also do work by commission. They do offer a limited selection of free social icon sets, some of which (being Iconfinder creations) are quite unique in their appearance. Their icons match a wide range of styles, themes, and personal tastes.
Speckyboy
Speckyboy Design Magazine features a list of free social icon sets. The list is a compilation of several dozen sets, which feature a wide range of popular styles and formats. With a focus on web design, the site includes many more lists such as these, with elements which site owners might find useful. One could easily put together a distinctive and eye-catching website through the free resources available at Speckyboy alone.
BufferApp
The focus of BufferApp is a little more broadly targeted than some of the other entries on this list, but they manage to serve a variety of specific needs amazingly well regardless. One of those needs is the provision of free social icon sets. BufferApp provides more than fifty such sets, ensuring that they offer something to help bring any website to life — be it intended for personal or professional use.
Vandelay
Vandelay Design is another website for free social icon sets. Like BufferApp, they serve a broad range of needs, and provide an extensive list of icon sets for your convenience. Vandelay’s sets are slightly less varied than those of some of the previous entries in this list, but they more than make up for this through the provision of some flashy and distinctive icon sets. This kind of thing isn’t widely available without an associated cost, making Vandelay a valuable resource.
Conclusion
With any luck, the preceding list of websites offering free social icon sets will provide you with a suitable set of free social icons in relatively short order. For additional information on what function social icons serve, and why they’re so important to maintaining your online presence, consider giving this thorough article by The Essential Marketer a read.
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