HoHoHo!
Posted on December 06, 2006
It's "Nikolaus"!
Saint Nicholas Day is a festival for children in much of Europe related to surviving legends of the saint, and particularly his reputation as a bringer of gifts. The American Santa Claus, as well as the Anglo-Canadian and British Father Christmas derive from this icon, the name 'Santa Claus' being a degeneration of the Dutch word Sinterklaas.
So for all those who've been good this year...
Here are 113 10x10 greyscale icons in .gif format to fill up your stocking with - the next instalment of my mini icon collection, which has been steadily growing over the last year.
Licence
A couple of people have been asking about licensing. The downloads on this site, unless otherwise stated, are covered by a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 licence. This means that you can download the icons and use them for whatever you like, including commercial work. You can even redistribute them, or modify them. All I ask is that you include a credit ("attribution") and if possible a back link to my site.
If you do use them for some ludicrously over-priced commercial work and don't know what to do with all that design budget, here's a button you may consider clicking - any money will go to these guys:
(Hey. It's Christmas.)
Comments (105)
Adam Hopkinson said
Cheers, it doesn't feel like Christmas yet but thanks for the early gift anyway!
Posted by: Adam Hopkinson at December 6, 2006 04:59 PM .
Derek Punsalan said
Thanks for the early gift! Mini icons... Mmm. Can never get enough of these types of sets.
Posted by: Derek Punsalan at December 6, 2006 05:01 PM .
illovich said
Very nice -- and I looked at your other icons, which are also very well done. I believe I may have some use for these in some upcoming projects.
If I could offer a suggestion, it would be nice if you included a license file in the download -- just something that indicates that these graphics are free for use by anyone, etc.
Those of us who would like to use these for things at work might be comforted by a license.
But that aside, beautiful work. Many thanks and Happy Holidays.
Posted by: illovich at December 6, 2006 09:20 PM .
Robert Ellis said
Great set! Like your blog. Lots of interesting stuff here. Thanks!
Posted by: Robert Ellis at December 7, 2006 07:41 PM .
Kris Gale said
Ho! Ho! Ho! Merry Christmas!!!
Icons for a gift. WOW! Lots of fun and interesting items here!!! THANKS!!!
Posted by: Kris Gale at December 8, 2006 07:07 AM .
Tango said
Nice, but I prefer the tango project's icons:
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Gallery
Maybe you should look into collaborating with them?
Posted by: Tango at December 8, 2006 10:03 AM .
daedal said
Thanks for the icons! At the very least, they'll serve as great inspiration when I'll try to make my own later on.
Posted by: daedal at December 8, 2006 02:10 PM .
Michael said
I assume these icons are also under a CC license - as your blog also is?
Posted by: Michael at December 8, 2006 02:21 PM .
Paul-Sebastian said
Nice! Thanks! I'm sorry I brought no gift with me...
Posted by: Paul-Sebastian at December 8, 2006 02:22 PM .
Max said
Thank you and Happy Holidays
Posted by: Max at December 8, 2006 02:39 PM .
Kasper said
Thank you! (:
Posted by: Kasper at December 8, 2006 02:46 PM .
Michel said
May we have some greyed out / inactive versions too?
Thanks
Posted by: Michel at December 8, 2006 02:59 PM .
dsafsafa said
site is screwed up in firefox at 800 by 600
Posted by: dsafsafa at December 8, 2006 03:15 PM .
drew said
great work! you inspired me to make two more, for links,
one diagonal arrow and one diagonal arrow with a box. tried to stay true to your theme, four shades of grey...
hit the link in my name for the gifs. cheers!
Posted by: drew at December 8, 2006 04:01 PM .
Tane Piper said
Nice set of icons, I think I'll use them on my next project (http://getjquery.org)
Posted by: Tane Piper at December 8, 2006 04:05 PM .
Ravi said
Really cool stuff! Thank you! Wish you'd made them in 16x16 - as it is easier to make them smaller (vs making 'em bigger and losing quality) :-)
- Ravi Jayagopal
Beggar *and* chooser ;-)
LinkOverLoad.com - Feed Reader that can make you monAy!
Posted by: Ravi at December 8, 2006 04:14 PM .
Cocoliso said
This are top notch. I'm going to integrate them into my blog this weekend. :)
Posted by: Cocoliso at December 8, 2006 04:43 PM .
Chad said
Great icons! Both these and the doctype ones are genius. I feel bad taking them for free, but I have been relatively good this year. These will definitely be useful in some future projects.
Posted by: Chad at December 8, 2006 04:46 PM .
mike said
THANK YOU, SANTA!
Posted by: mike at December 8, 2006 04:53 PM .
Gabriele Fabbri said
I love the Bell icon!!
Thank you.
Posted by: Gabriele Fabbri at December 8, 2006 05:12 PM .
ernest leitch said
Thanks for the icons. It's really nice to have a good set of tools to work with.
Posted by: ernest leitch at December 8, 2006 06:31 PM .
Foe said
Woohoo!! Awesome job. Thank you!
Posted by: Foe at December 8, 2006 06:55 PM .
Oliver said
Thank you very much. I have been looking for some small, nice, simple grey icons for two weeks now. So, I am more then happy to discover yours today. And of course I will donate something - you did a great job and picked a great organisation to support.
Posted by: Oliver at December 8, 2006 07:59 PM .
bsn said
Thanks Oliver!
I was originally toying with the idea of asking for donations for server costs, etc. (30,000 unique visitors today!), but I've got unlimited traffic anyway, and I made the icons without expecting to make any money from them (I use them for small admin tools I make). Then my wife came up with the idea of asking for donations for a charitable organisation. I didn't have to think twice about Medecins sans frontiers.
Cheers,
Tim.
Posted by: bsn at December 8, 2006 08:23 PM .
reese said
fabulous--thank you!
Posted by: reese at December 9, 2006 12:23 AM .
Justin Cook said
very nice, these will come in handy on my next webapp for sure
Posted by: Justin Cook at December 9, 2006 03:41 AM .
mayvelous said
Thank you so much. Very useful xmas gift indeed.
Cheers.
Posted by: mayvelous at December 9, 2006 05:00 AM .
skyreal said
thanks for the nice icons, you must spend lots of time on it~~
Posted by: skyreal at December 9, 2006 10:57 AM .
Tahir said
Thank you for these beautiful icons.
Tahir
Pakistan
Posted by: Tahir at December 19, 2006 12:09 PM .
andrew said
they look awesome...pity the link is stuffed :(
Posted by: andrew at December 20, 2006 05:48 AM .
Alan Musselman said
Where da FW PNG file at? :)
Posted by: Alan Musselman at December 20, 2006 09:56 PM .
bsn said
@Alan
They're all flattened bitmap layers in fireworks, drawn with the pen tool, so the Fireworks PNG won't give you that many insights.
Posted by: bsn at December 21, 2006 10:35 AM .
Chris Hoeppner said
Hi!
I just grabbed a copy of those. I may be using them soon on my two current projects. As they're both sites of mine, a common icon theme will give them a common point. Thanks for this Christmas gift. I'll set up a task to donate some back in a while.
I'm pretty sure no one's even going to care, but I've found most of the commentary to be pure garbage.
Posted by: Chris Hoeppner at December 23, 2006 12:10 PM .
bsn said
On commentry: why-do-blog-comments-seem-to-bring-out-the-worst-in-people-so-often
Posted by: bsn at December 24, 2006 09:47 AM .
Justin said
Beautiful icons, greyscale is so much sexier than color. I've been looking for a good set of free/low-cost icons for a while now. These will do the trick. Thanks!
Posted by: Justin at January 4, 2007 02:46 AM .
regimages said
sell your icons at
http://www.regimages.com
Posted by: regimages at January 6, 2007 06:55 AM .
Regimages said
Windows xp icons
http://www.regimages.com
Posted by: Regimages at January 6, 2007 06:56 AM .
Vernon said
These are nice. Could you possibly add a pencil (for an "Edit" button) and a question mark (for a "Help" page). And perhaps an open and closed door for "Logged in" and "Logged out".
Posted by: Vernon at January 27, 2007 06:09 AM .
James Carlos said
I stumbled upon this...great work! Thanks.
Posted by: James Carlos at January 30, 2007 04:37 AM .
florian said
NICE!!!
wow...thaks therefore!
regards, florian
Posted by: florian at March 9, 2007 11:42 AM .
Dennis Fromme said
Very nice icons. I decided to use some on my blog, too.
Thanx
Posted by: Dennis Fromme at March 21, 2007 04:34 PM .
Eebee said
Ta, danke, merci etc . . .
Posted by: Eebee at March 27, 2007 07:24 PM .
free icons said
Great icons,
Over 15,000 Free icons
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Posted by: free icons at April 19, 2007 02:01 PM .
vista icons said
Thanks
More vista icons
http://www.uiicons.com
Posted by: vista icons at April 22, 2007 04:59 AM .
Dave said
HI,
These look great, the best complete set I have ever seen. I'd love to make a donation but I have no money. If the program I am writing makes any money I will surely make a donation. Regardless, I will include you URL in the about box if I use any of your icons.
Thanks, Dave
Posted by: Dave at May 11, 2007 03:03 PM .
Steve said
Nice
Posted by: Steve at June 11, 2007 08:07 AM .
runk said
nice icons, thanks
Posted by: runk at July 1, 2007 09:16 AM .
memphis said
Thank you very much!
Nice work!
Regards from Germany :-)
Posted by: memphis at July 18, 2007 11:36 AM .
Lisa said
Thanks! Very useful
Posted by: Lisa at August 1, 2007 06:53 PM .
Chris said
I've been thinking a lot lately about what makes the Internet so great and I've decided that it is people like yourself who contribute things that are so useful for others. Thank you for what you do!
Posted by: Chris at August 6, 2007 12:19 PM .
ABCDEsign Menu Design said
Okay... small size matters. For us to create menus for our customers... Thanks from Copenhagen Denmark. Best regards from Ulrik Jensen, SEO Specialist
Posted by: ABCDEsign Menu Design at August 30, 2007 04:45 PM .
Bayern Wellness said
HOHOHO --> it a great title and the pic is also very nice
Posted by: Bayern Wellness at September 2, 2007 07:38 PM .
bala_balsky said
nice job. thanks
Posted by: bala_balsky at September 15, 2007 11:16 AM .
Björn Seibert said
Very cute and premium! I use them on my blog. Just linked back to you.
Posted by: Björn Seibert at September 29, 2007 03:04 PM .
Rainer München said
Thanks for the icons. I keep you in mind in case I make billions with my new website :-)
Posted by: Rainer München at September 30, 2007 07:56 AM .
eCommerce said
Thank you for the nice gift ;) I like these icon collection.
Posted by: eCommerce at October 8, 2007 01:34 AM .
Gratis SMS said
It´s a very interesting Blog and simple answer of many questions.
Posted by: Gratis SMS at October 9, 2007 09:44 AM .
jacque hinderton said
Vernon said
These are nice. Could you possibly add a pencil (for an "Edit" button) and a question mark (for a "Help" page). And perhaps an open and closed door for "Logged in" and "Logged out".
Posted by: jacque hinderton at October 13, 2007 10:53 AM .
kalyan said
thank you very much
Posted by: kalyan at October 16, 2007 08:01 AM .
programy.pl said
hey, realy nice site, thanks for very interesting articles
Posted by: programy.pl at October 16, 2007 04:38 PM .
Partnerringe said
Thank you for the good articles have helped me a lot.Thanks
Posted by: Partnerringe at October 25, 2007 10:09 AM .
kim said
Sweet iconpack. I will use these for my new personal CMS. Thanks a lot!
Posted by: kim at October 25, 2007 03:20 PM .
zeldman said
You have the best comment system I've seen.
Posted by: zeldman at November 1, 2007 08:18 PM .
Mark Boulton said
Followed the link from Zeldman and just checking our your comments system...
Posted by: Mark Boulton at November 2, 2007 10:03 PM .
khaled said
thanks
Posted by: khaled at November 12, 2007 02:28 AM .
mirc said
thanks for dude.. this is nice post. hohoho
Posted by: mirc at December 15, 2007 07:56 AM .
Scouty said
Wonderful icons. Thanks for your great work.
Posted by: Scouty at December 18, 2007 09:34 AM .
msn nickleri said
hohoho :) that's a funny picture.
Posted by: msn nickleri at December 20, 2007 12:29 PM .
