IconFinder – A free search engine to find thousands of quality icons

Posted on August 15, 2007 at 12:19 pm

It’s about time someone created a search engine just for icons! If you’re a web site developer or an application programmer, finding high quality icons in specific sizes can be a royal pain. Thankfully, you can now search just for icons using IconFinder and use them for your own personal purposes, such as replacement for Windows. The icons cannot be used in a commercial application or sold by you to someone else.

When you perform a search in IconFinder, you’ll get a list of all icons that match that word in their tags or that is similar. For example, searching “book” will not only get you icons of books, but also of notebooks, etc. I prefer that type of search because it gives you a wider range of selection.

IconFinder also has a cool auto-suggest feature that will populate the search box with the most popular search terms as you type in your query. Kind of like how Google and Yahoo suggest items as you type.

You can also refine your search by icon size if you’re looking for something specific. You can choose from 12×12, 16×16, 22×22, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, and 128×128.

IconFinder also has a search cloud feature that you can use to browse the most popular icons. Tags that are in a larger text size have more icons associated with them.

Finally, if you really search for icons a lot, you can add IconFinder to the list of search engines in IE and Firefox. In Firefox, click on the down arrow in the search box at the top right and choose “Add IconFinder – The best search engine for icons” while on the site.

You can also add IconFinder to your Google Toolbar and perform searches directly from there by click on this link: Add Iconfinder to Google Toolbar. If you’re on a MAC, you can install a MAC OS X widget whereby you can search from your desktop.

Overall, a cool search engine with a lot of free downloadable icons in PNG format. Give it a try if you want to change the boring Windows XP icons to something a little more Web 2.0!

Enjoy!

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4 Responses to “IconFinder – A free search engine to find thousands of quality icons”

Martin Leblanc said on : August 18th, 2007 at 11:38 am

Thanks for the nice review. See you at iconfinder

sidd said on : October 29th, 2008 at 12:49 pm

icon finder is good, but the icons are in png format and in windows xp icons should be in ico format so whts the use ??

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[...] is another site I’ve dug up as a result of my bloghopping. Months ago, Online Tech Tips mentioned about IconFinder, a search engine that does what it says it does — find icons. And, surprisingly, after months [...]
March 5th, 2008 at 6:26 pm