Occasionally we all work on projects that have low budgets. Perhaps it’s a pro-bono client, or you’re creating a prototype for a startup idea. Bottom line… You have no money to pay royalties for clip-art, nothing in the budget for buying photos either. You still need quality graphics and icons even if you don’t have an artist on working on the project.
There’s plenty of sites on the Internet that claim they have free stuff. Type ‘free icons’ into a search engine and see how many questionable sites show up in the list.
Free Icons
Here’s a couple sites that have nice quality free icons.
Silk Icons:
- Nice set of 700 Icons for your projects. Distributed under the Creative Commons license they are free for normal use.
VistaIcons.com
RSS Feed for Free Icons
The MaxPower blog has a lot of posts relating to finding quality free icons on the .NET
http://www.maxpower.ca/free-icons/2006/03/05/
-Walt Ritscher
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Anyone know any icons written in XAML?
There’s a new icon search engine with better results and a large keyword database. http://www.easyiconfinder.com
Related to the searched keyword easyiconfinder presents other webresults, blog and webgraphics.
Huge database and large keyword database which is improved by the community
There are plenty of free SVG artworks available and plenty of converters which will convert them to xaml (eg inkscape -http://www.inkscape.org)