ICONlook: icon search engine

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ICONlook: icon search engine

by Jay Hathaway May 27th 2008

When it comes to tracking down some icons for a project -- nothing real fancy, and preferably under some kind of open license -- image searching on Google doesn't always do the trick. ICONLook is a search site that you can try instead: it's specifically for icons, and it has some useful features that make it worth a peek if you're in a pinch. These are generally OS-type icons, for stuff like apps, documents and search buttons, so don't get your hopes up for anything too fanciful. Heck, we couldn't even find anything as wild and crazy as a cat icon on ICONLook.

Selection is not ICONLook's strong point. Even within the categories it's designed for, there's not a lot of variety. On the plus side, many of the icons are available in a number of different sizes, and there are links to the source and the license for each one. This puts to rest any worries that this might be some kind of hack job, or the work of nefarious icon pirates. Instead, what you get is a legitimate, middle of the road selection of licensed icons that will hopefully expand to become more useful.

UPDATE: An astute reader was able to find a cat on ICONLook. We stand corrected, but we still feel the site could use a bigger library. Thanks, Jeff_RE!

Tags: design, icons, resources, search

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jeff_RE: said 12:54PM on 5-27-2008

Cat: http://www.iconlook.com/details.icon?id=6035&size=128

episodev said 4:24PM on 5-27-2008

Awesome. I'm always looking for good icons.

ahura mazda said 10:48AM on 5-28-2008

I usually use www.iconfinder.net

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