The Most Comprehensive Index Of Free Icon Fonts/Iconic Web Fonts

Updated: 26 Jan 2013 | Legend: * recommended, * new.

Index: BBC Global Experience Language (GEL), Brandico, Dingbests, Ding Dongs, Ding Maps, Dot Com, Elusive Icons**, Entypo*, Erler Dingbats, Evilz, Font Awesome*, Foundation Icon Fonts 2*, GeoBats, Glyphyx,  Grands, Guifx v2 Transports, Handy Icons, Hazard, Heydings Icons, IcoMoon*, Iconic*, ikoo Typo, JustVector, Ligature Symbols*, Listicon, Meteocons, Modern Pictograms*, Mun, Notice, OpenWeb Icons, Peculiar, Pictogramz,  Pictonic*, PulsarJS, Raphaël Icon Set, Santiago Icono, Signify Lite, Siruca Pictograms,  Sosa, Socialico, StateFace, Symbly Lite, Sym­bol Signs, Symbolix, Travelcons, Typicons*, Web Symbols, Zocial CSS Social Buttons.

 

BBC GEL Icons - Free Iconic Web Font

The BBC Global Experience Language (GEL) is a set of icons from the BBC which was originally designed to complement their website by supplying a new set of icons to provide a visual guide to navigation.

The icons themselves are available in different formats such as PNG, Photoshop, Illustrator formats as well as an iconic web font.  There is a grand total of 96 superb icons which you can use in your next project.

Website: http://hammerspace.co.uk/projects/GEL_Icons/
License: Free

 

Brandico - Free Iconic Web Font

Brandico is a "crowdsourced" collection of popular logos like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus and more. It includes only icons for links to pages in social networks, messengers icons and "login via..." icons.

The whole set contains 32 icons of various popular services from around the web.

Website: https://github.com/fontello/brandico.font
License: SIL Open Font License

 

Dingbests - Free Iconic Web Font

Dingbests is a free web font which contains more than 80 general purpose glyphs. You will find glyphs for stationary as well as some stars and other miscellaneous items.

Website: http://www.fonts2u.com/dingbests-regular.font
License: Free For Personal Use

 

Ding Dongs - Free Iconic Web Font

Ding Dongs is a free font which can be used as an iconic web font.  The font itself has mostly glyphs which are of the traffic signs theme.  The font is available in the TTF format.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/ding-dongs.font
License: Free

 

Ding Maps - Free Iconic Web Font

Ding Maps is a font which consists of maps of major continents and countries.  It contains more than 60 maps which are found within the font, which is available in the TTF format.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/ding-maps.font
License: Free For Personal Use

 

Dot Com - Free Iconic Web Font

Dot Com is a font which contains over 150 glyphs, which can be used as a web font.  The theme of this font is mostly arrows, as you will find many arrow of different shapes and styles within it. The font is provided in the TTF format, but can be converted to other formats for use as a web font.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/dotcom.font
License: Free For Personal Use

 

Elusive Icons For Twitter Bootstrap - Free Iconic Web Font

Elusive Icons is a new iconic web font released meant to be used with Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation 2 front-end frameworks. The web fonts contains a whopping 268 glyphs meant mostly for web and mobile applications and websites.

It can be used as an alternative to Font Awesome, the default web font packaged with Twitter Bootstrap. The web font is released under the SIL Open Font License.

Website: http://aristath.github.com/elusive-iconfont/
License: SIL Open Font License

 

The Entypo Pictogram Suite - Free Iconic Web Font

Entypo is a set of 250+ carefully crafted pictograms. The package contains an icon font — OpenType, TrueType and @font-face — EPS, PDF and PSD files. All released for free under the license CC BY-SA 3.0. The font itself is released under the SIL Open Font License though.

The latest release of the Entypo Pictogram suite added more icons, with a social extension pack, as well as several improvements to several old icons.  There is also a character map for you to peruse at your ease and a glyph guide as RTF.

Website: http://www.entypo.com/
License: SIL Open Font License

 

Erler Dingbats - Free Iconic Web Font

Erler Dingbats is a font which is available in the TTF format which contains a set of general purpose glyphs which can be used as a web font.  The designers of this font have tried to group together a related number of glyphs and this font is the product.

Website: http://www.ffdingbatsfont.com/erler/index.html
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use)

 

Evilz - Free Iconic Web Font

Evilz is a free font which can also be used as a web font.  It is evil-themed, with glyphs such as skull, pirate skull, reaper and more.  The font is available in the TTF format.

Website: http://www.fontspace.com/n-plus/evilz
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use)

 

Font Awesome - Free Iconic Web Font

Font Awesome is the iconic font designed for use with Twitter Bootstrap.  It contains more the 220 icons classified in various categories like web application icons, text editor icons, directional icons, video player icons and social icons.

Font Awesome works even in IE7, is screen-reader compatible and has infinite scalability like all other fonts. Using an icon is as simple as including a CSS file in your project and assigning a class to an element.

Website: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
License: CC Attribution 3.0 License

 

Foundation Icon Fonts 2 - Free Iconic Web Font

Foundation Icon Fonts 2 is a custom icon set that is stored in a handy web font and are coded to be more accessible. There is a total of four sets of icons available in the Foundation Icon Set 2, as follows: General, General Enclosed Set, Social Set and Accessibility Set.

The General & General Enclosed Icon Sets contain as their name suggest, general purpose icons.  The social icon set contains icons of various social services such as Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and more.  Finally, the Accessibility set contains icons to improve accessibility by providing icons for helpful visual cues.

Website: http://www.zurb.com/playground/foundation-icons
License: MIT License

 

GeoBats - Free Iconic Web Font

GeoBats is a free font, available in the TTF format which can be used as a web font.  It has over 150 icons representing the various countries of the world along with one which represents the world map.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/geobats.font
License: Free For Personal Use

 

Glyphyx - Free Iconic Web Font

Glyphyx is a web font which contains a set of glyphs which are from the transportation theme.  The icon set itself contains more than 90 glyphs, and you can download it in various formats for various uses.

The website need registration for you to be able to download the icon, which itself is free.  You get a nice package with instructions on how to use the web font generated for you.

Website: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/nicksfonts/glyphyx-nf/
License: Free

 

Grands - Free Iconic Web Font

Grands is a set of 80 icons which can be used as a web font. It includes popular social media websites logo and various known websites’ logo from the web. The font is also available in SVG and Vector formats.

Website: http://grawl.github.com/Grands/
License: Free

 

Guifx v2 Transports - Free Iconic Web Font

Guifx v2 Transports is an icon, which can also be used as an iconic web font.  It features glyphs usually used for media player interfaces, such as play, pause, skip, etc.  The font format is TTF and the font itself contains 58 glyphs.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/guifx-v2-transports.font
License: Free For Personal Use

 

Handy Icons - Free Iconic Web Font

Handy Icons is a web font which contains 99 hand drawn icons for use mostly on websites and in web applications.  The web font is available in different formats such as EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF.

Website: http://wegraphics.net/downloads/handy-icons-webfont-kit/
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use)

 

Hazard - Free Iconic Web Font

Hazard is a free font of more than 100 hazard signs.  Hazard can be used as a free iconic web font and comes in the TTF format.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/hazard.font
License: Free

 

Heydings Icons - Free Iconic Web Font

Heydings Icons is a decently sized collection of 60 glyphs specifically intended for the accessorization and classification of textual cues such as hyperlinks, navigation elements and buttons. 

Of course, you are free to use it in any other way you want.  Characters have been mapped to the glyphs alphabetically.  The Heydings web font should find use in simple web applications as well as on websites.

Website: http://www.heydonworks.com/article/a-free-icon-web-font
License: SIL Open Font License

 

IcoMoon - Free Iconic Web Font

IcoMoon provides a free web font along with it’s paid versions.  The free web font contains 315 icons in SVG and AI formats.

The web font is not provided per say, but you can use IcoMoon’s web font generating application, which is free to generate your own custom version of the IcoMoon free icons pack or any other icon if you wish to.

The icons can be imported into the application SVG or as fonts itself.  Once generated, you can download web font and use it in your web application.

Website: http://icomoon.io/#icons
License: CC Share Alike 3.0 License

 

Iconic - Free Iconic Web Font

Iconic is an open source icon web font which consists of 171 icons which are available in various formats such as PNG, SVG, SWC, OFT/TTF/EOT and Omnigraffle stencil formats.  The author also provides the tools used to generate the icons in those various formats in the form of JSX and Python scripts.

Iconic was designed with a vision to be easy to deploy, scalable, clear, attractive and open source.  Iconic icons can scale from 8px upto any size you want while maintaining clarity.  All icons are subtly styled and are unique and attractive, fit for any for your future projects.

Website: http://somerandomdude.com/work/iconic/
License: CC Share Alike 3.0 License

 

ikoo Typo - Free Iconic Web Font

ikoo Typo is a nice web font containing 65 glyphs which can be used in relatively any project.  ikoo focuses mainly on arrow symbols with a few other icons thrown into the set.

Website: http://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/352362
License: CC Share Alike 3.0 License

 

JustVector - Free Iconic Web Font

JustVector is a web font which contains several icons of various popular web services like Twitter, Facebook, Blogger and more.  The icons come in various formats such a EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF.

There is also a more extensive previous version which contains a few more icons which can be found at the same page as this one.

Website: http://blog….642365/justvector-social-icons-font
License: Free Art License

 

Ligature Symbols - Free Iconic Web Font

Ligature Symbols is a free icon web font with ligature features. Ligature Symbols contains over 250 icons in the set, covering a wide variety of use cases and also includes more than 30 common logos like Apple, Android, Windows, etc.

Website: http://kudakurage.com/ligature_symbols/
License: SIL Open Font License

 

Listicons - Free Iconic Web Font

Listicon is a free web font which contains more than 50 arrows/bullet glyphs.  The download package consists of the font in the EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF formats.

Website: http://medialoot.com/item/listicons-arrows-bullets-webfont/
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use)

 

Meteocons - Free Iconic Web Font

Meteocons is a free weather web font, which will suit your new weather-related web project perfectly.

This web font contains 40+ icons available in PSD, CSH,EPS, SVG, Desktop font and Web font. There are various weather-related icons like clouds, sun, moon, thermometer and more.

Meteocons Font is a typeface available in Truetype, OpenType format and a complete @font-face kit to be used freely in your projects. Its use is very simple, once loaded font-face kits in the main CSS is already ready for use.

Website: http://www.alessioatzeni.com/meteocons/
License: Free (For Both Personal & Commercial Use)

 

Modern Pictograms - Free Iconic Web Font

Modern Pictograms is a free iconic web font which contains 89 icons which covert a wide category of objects.  The iconic font was originally designed for a WordPress theme, and has since been released for general use to the web community.

The icons look great from the size of 18px but look best from size of 24px and upwards.

Website: http://thedesignoffice.org/project/modern-pictograms/
License: SIL Open Font License

 

Mun - Free Iconic Web Font

Mun is a free font which is moon-themed.  It is available in three versions: extrabold, circled (circled) and striped (striped). The download package contains the three different versions as three separate TTF files.

Website: http://www.graphicbox.it…perimental-font-to-download/
License: CC Attribution 3.0 License

 

Notice - Free Iconic Web Font

Notice is a free web font which contains over 280 industrial themed glyphs.  The @font-face kit is provided and the font itself comes in the EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF formats.

Website: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Notice
License: Free

 

OpenWeb Icons - Free Iconic Web Font

OpenWeb Icons is an extension to Font Awesome web font because the latter had no RSS-icon.  OpenWeb Icons contains several additional icons which can be used alongside the original Font Awesome web font.

Website: http://pfefferle.github.com/openwebicons/
License: CC Unported 3.0 License

 

Peculiar - Free Iconic Web Font

Peculiar, although not really a font, can be used via CSS by assigning classes to span and other HTML elements. It contains a set of general accessibility icons which can be used on websites or web applications.

Supported browsers are Internet Explorer 9, Mozilla Firefox, Camino, Opera, Apple Safari, Google Chrome or any other Gecko or WebKit powered browser. Browsers unsupported: Internet Explorer 6-8, but support can be added using CSS3 PIE.

Website: http://lucianmarin.com/peculiar/
License: GPL

 

Pictogramz - Free Iconic Web Font

Pictogramz is a free font which can be used as a web font.  It contains more than 60 glyphs of mostly real-life signs.  The font is available in TFF format.  The use of this font requires a donation, though it can be downloaded for free.

 

Website: http://www.dafont.com/pictogramz.font
License: Donationware, Free To Download

 

Pictonic - Free Iconic Web Font

Pictonic Free is a free web font which contains 259 free icons. It contains a wide variety of icons which fall in these various categories: Social, Browsers, Programming, Frameworks, Sharing, Operating Systems, Databases and Version Control.

In the web font, you will find icons for various social media service like Google+, Facebook, Twitter and more and the iconic font comes in various formats such as EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF.

Website: https://pictonic.co/free
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use)

 

PulsarJS - Free Iconic Web Font

PulsarJS is a free web font which contains 73 icons. It is free for use and comprises the most used icons in mobile development. It’s a small and neat web font, which you can use freely under the SIL Open Font License.

Website: http://xperiments.es/blog/en/free-pulsarjs-fontface-iconfont/
License: SIL Open Font License

 

Raphaël Icon Set - Free Iconic Web Font

Raphaël Icon-Set Web Font is the Raphaël Icon Set which has been converted to a web font. The original icon set were in the SVG format but are now available in EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF formats.

The web font itself contains several types of icons which covers a broad area of application.

Website: http://xperiments.es/blog/en/free-pulsarjs-fontface-iconfont/
License: MIT License

 

Santiago Icono - Free Iconic Web Font

Santiago Icono is a free font which contains more than 60 glyphs.  The fonts contains general public signage glyphs and available in TTF format, which can be used as a web font.

Website: http://www.fonts2u.com/santiago-icono.font
License: Free

 

Signify Lite - Free Iconic Web Font

Signify Lite includes 38 beautiful, hand-crafted icons at your disposal for any use. It is a nice set of general purpose icons which can be used personally or commercially, but with attribution to the original website.  Icons are available in EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF formats.

Website: http://medialoot.com/item/signify-free-icon-font/
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use, With Attribution)

 

Siruca Pictograms - Free Iconic Web Font

Siruca Pictograms is a free iconic web font with over 80 glyphs.  Its glyphs are mostly traffic sign themed icons.  Registration is required to download the font, where you can generate a @font-face kit.

Website: http://www.fsd.it/sirucapictograms/index.htm
License: CC Share Alike 3.0 License

 

Sosa - Free Iconic Web Font

Sosa is an iconic web font which includes 120+ icons of varying categories. Icon categories include: web, devices, media, media controls, tools, stationery, social, e-commerce, forms, OS / CMS, weather, graphs, vehicles and more.

The icons are available in the EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF formats for download.

Website: http://www.tenbytwenty.com/sosa.php
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use)

 

Socialico - Free Iconic Web Font

Socialico is a web font which has 74 social media icons, combined within a single weight font.  There are icons for nearly every social media services out there such as Twitter, Facebook, Skype and more.

The icons have been specially assigned to a particular key on your keyboard such that the lower caps of the basic Latin alphabet produces an enclosed version of the social media icon while the upper caps of the same produces a non-enclosed one.

Website: http://fontfabric.com/social-media-icons-pack/
License: Free (For Personal & Commercial Use)

 

StateFace - Free Iconic Web Font

StateFace is a web font which has glyphs for the 50 states in the USA along with that of D.C. It also contain a map of continental US.  The state glyphs are simplified versions of the real maps and the web font weights in at only 22KB.

StateFace is available is the EOF, SVG, WOFF, OTF and TTF formats.

Website: http://propublica.github.com/stateface/
License: MIT License

 

Symbly Lite - Free Iconic Web Font

Symbly Lite is a free web font which consists of 71 mono icons and symbols.  The web font is specially designed for mobile applications, wireframes, and web design in general.

The Symbly Lite web font is available in the following formats: EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF.

Website: http://symb.ly/
License: CC Attribution Share Alike 3.0 License

 

Sym­bol Signs - Free Iconic Web Font

Sym­bol Signs is a font which can be easily be used as a web font. It contains 50 symbols meant for sig­nage & wayfind­ing projects. The font is released under the OTF format, but can be easily converted to other formats as well.

The icons present in this font includes pub­lic ser­vices such as Toi­lets, Tele­phone, First Aid, Ele­va­tor, Infor­ma­tion, Restau­rant, Cof­fee Shop, Smok­ing, Baby, Recy­cle Icon, Shower, Recep­tion desk, Arrows col­lec­tion and more.

Website: http://www.designworkplan.com/design/symbol-signs.htm
License: CC Attribution 3.0 License

 

Symbolix - Free Iconic Web Font

Symbolix is a free font which can be used as a web font. It contains 28 glyphs which are mostly warning sign like the hazard sign, no smoking sign, etc.  The font comes in the TTF format, which can be converted to other formats to be used as an iconic web font.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/symbolix.font
License: Free

 

Travelcons - Free Iconic Web Font

Travelcons is a font which contains more than 80 glyphs of the Transport theme.  The font is available in TTF format and comes in two versions - filled and hollowed one.

Website: http://www.dafont.com/travelcons.font
License: Free For Personal Use

 

Typicons - Free Iconic Web Font

Typicons is a free web font which contains more than 80 icons which can be used for a variety of projects.  The icons are available in EOF, SVG, WOFF TTF and EPS formats.  The CSS for @font-face inclusion is also provided for simple integration into a web project.

Website: http://typicons.com/
License: CC Share Alike Unported 3.0 License

 

Web Symbols Typeface - Free Iconic Web Font

Web Symbols is a web font which contains the most commonly used graphics by web designers.  These include icons of popular social media websites, navigational icons, and more.  The icons are available in the EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF formats.

Website: http://www.justbenicestudio.com/studio/websymbols/
License: SIL Open Font License

 

Zocial CSS Social Buttons – Free Iconic Web Font

Zocial CSS Social Buttons is a set of  fully vector buttons, whose icons can be used as @font-face icons.  It contains icons for about 83 different services, like Google, Facebook, Dropbox, etc. It works splendidly on any browser supporting @font-face and the CSS3 degrades gracefully in IE8 and below.

The icons are released under various formats such as EOF, SVG, WOFF and TTF.

Website: http://zocial.smcllns.com/
License: MIT License

 

Additional Resources

You can use these services to convert a font from one format to another:

• Free Font Converter – Convert Font Among Various Formats
• Font2Web – Convert Font To Web Font

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