Any website can be spruced up with the use of appropriate icons and many folks on the Internet have been kind enough to provide free icons that can be used on any website. Below is a listing of 23 (in alphabetical order) that I like and don’t forget to thank them if you do use these icons.

1. ASP NET Icons: These 300 free icons are created by AW/Systems.




2. Beauticons: This set of photo-realistic icons are the creation of David Leonardelli.




3. Bitcons: This set of 121 icons is created by P.J. Onori.




4. Brand Spanking New: This set of 113 10X10 grayscale icons are created and released for free by Timothy Groves, a designer based in Munich, Germany.




5. BS-Markup: There’s nothing BS about this 9 sets of grayscale icons by Björn Seibert.




6. Drunky Love: The icons can be found here and there.




7. Exploding Boy: This nice set of icons are the creation of Christopher Ware, a web and graphic designer living and working in Birmingham, Alabama.




8. Fam Fam Fam: These icons are the creation of Mark James who is a part-time web developer and a part-time student currently living in Birmingham, UK. There are currently 3 sets of icons - Silk, Flags and Mini. Another set Bitsy is set to be released soon.




9. Fast Icons: This company provides many sets of icons and some sets are nicely hand drawn. Check out their iPhone set.




10. Greyscale: Greyscale is a set of 40 greyscale icons which each fit into a 34 x 34 pixel area created by Ian Main, an Australian web designer.




11. Icon Base: A nice set from Icon Base.




12. Icon Kits: This company provides points or one free download a month for being their member. It is worth signing up as the icons are gorgeous.




13. N Design: These icons are by Nick La who is based in Toronto. Apart from the free icons there are also ones available for purchase at a reasonable price.




14. Pinvoke: This set of icons is by a freelance designer in Tokyo, Japan. An impressive set that I like a lot.




15. Spheres Icons: This set of free colorful icons are created by a talented designer named Ken Saunders who despite having diabetes and poor eye condition contributes positively to the design community. Great job, Ken.




16. Studio Twenty Eight: A great set of icons from Javier Ocasio aka Franco aka KoL from Bayamón Puerto Rico.




17. Sweetie: There are two sets of icons - Sweetie Base Pack and Sweetie Communication created by Joseph North in Canada.




18. Two Tone Icons: As the name suggests, they have sets of two-toned icons with PSDs to change base colors easily.




19. Vista Icons: This is a collection of 2,500 Vista icons.




20. WebsiteIcons.Com: At last count, they have 11 sets of nicely categorized icons. These icons are created by a design company in Luxemburg.




21. WebsiteIcons.Net: Nice colorful icons which are of really good quality.




22. Yegor Gilyov: A great cartoony set of icons from Yegor Gilyov, the co-founder of TurboMilk.




23. Yellow Icons: These icons are from a small company of 10 odd (no pun intended) people and their creations are great to say the least.