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Every time I need to create a menu or toolbar with actions I end up collecting some images extracted from different application and hand tuning them with the image editor. This is time consuming and boring (eventhough I admit that might be a refreshing break in some ocasions).

Do you know of any collection of such images? I would like to have at least images for all the menu items in the menu templates. They must be copyright-free. Thanks.

skaffman
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There are the silk icons (and others from famfamfam). Those are not copyright-free, but I figure you meant they needed to be unencumbered, free-to-use, etc. (Truly copyright-free stuff will be very, very hard to find.) The silk ones just require acknowledgement somewhere, nothing else.

T.J. Crowder
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@PA check this link.

my favorite famfamfam

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and these questions in SO

and so on.

Glorfindel
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  • thanks, that's just what I was looking for. I have accepted the answer from TJ. – PA. Feb 11 '10 at 09:36
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We use IconExperience which is royalty free. You buy a licence for a company. They do two different libraries, one called V-Collections and the other X-Collections. There are various sections within them, that you can buy separately, but for V-Collections its $379 at most and X-Collections its $289.

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I guess it is almost impossible to get "copyright-free" glyphs. Even Open Source is not copyright-free!

But if more-or-less-free-for-use glyphs are ok, then you might give glyFX's free icons a try.

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    Delphi comes with that set. See C:\Program Files\Common Files\CodeGear Shared\Images\GlyFX – Lars Truijens Feb 10 '10 at 08:16
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    +1 Those are **nice** And they don't even seem to require any significant acknowledgement (http://www.glyfx.com/license-toolbar.html). One could claim the statement "...you may not claim that you created any part of this library" suggests you need to make a disclaimer on your own copyright window/page, but it seems really easy to comply with. – T.J. Crowder Feb 10 '10 at 08:16
  • you're right, no really need copyright-free but royalty-free. – PA. Feb 10 '10 at 16:25
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Gnome has good icon sets and the licence is GPL. http://art.gnome.org/themes/icon

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You can search on Web. There are many sites with icons; I use these:

Surely there are more.
You can search icons by name or cathegory, search similar icons, icons by packages,...

Regards.

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A good website to track is Smashing Magazine I keep the RSS feed on my iGoogle page as the regularly have articles along the lines of 50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design. They're a bit "graphic designery" if you get my drift but they do provide some really useful stuff.

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Try the Fugue and Diagona icon sets. Again, they're not copyright-free, but can be used in exchange for attribution.

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