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Best Free Icon Fonts That WebDesigners Can Not Ignore

When it comes to building applications and websites nowadays, you can’t avoid mentioning icon font.

They own tons of amazing benefits like:

easily scalable

lesser http requests compared to images

stylable with CSS (change size, color, etc)

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Like normal fonts, icon fonts are available for free or for a fee. If you’re looking for 100% free icon fonts

for your website, here is a list of best 7.

Font Awesome

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Created by Dave Gandy, Font Awesome is by far one of the safest icon sets you can use. It has been

around for years and there’s no reason it will fade away soon.

It offers 585 downloadable free fonts on their website which come in various shapes, including line art

and rounded images.

Download here (http://fontawesome.io/)

Ionicons

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I highly recommend Ionicons for newbies who have known nothing about icon fonts before. Because

those icon fonts are pretty easy to setup. And then once you become an expert in how they work, you

can move onto almost any other icon webfont out there.

It offers about 730 fonts.

Download here (http://ionicons.com/)

Capital Icon

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Created by designer Mario del Valle. Captain Icon owns amazing icon pack in which each icon has a

very unique design. Which makes them stand out from the crowd is that they’re all hand drawn from

scratch.

Download here (https://mariodelvalle.github.io/CaptainIconWeb/)

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Octicons

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If you want a simple, lightweight icon font, Octicons will be your best choice. Created by GitHub, it now

offers a free set of 163 solid colored icon fonts.

This icon pack is currently in version 5.0 and totally free.

Download here (https://octicons.github.com/)

Entypo

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When it comes to freebies, Entypo will be top of the line. Entypo contains 411 carefully crafted

premium pictograms which created by Daniel Bruce

Especially, it includes a social extension if you need icons for social networks.

Download here (http://www.entypo.com/)

Iconmoon

Available as both a website and an app, IcoMoon offers 490 different vector icons for you to play

around with. Each icon pack features detailed licensing so that designers and developers know exactly

how icons can be used.

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Download here (https://icomoon.io/)

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Typicons

You might not know about Typicons yet cause it’s not so popular. However, there is no doubt that it’s

one of the better icon web fonts available.

It offers a set of 336 rounded vector icons.

Download here (http://typicons.com/)

Your turnAs you can tell, there’s a ton of free icon font out there for you to choose. This is my favorite list. How

about you? Did you have any “I can’t believe you didn’t put it on your top” resources? Feel free to share

your secret weapon in the comments below!

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