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Handycons – a free, hand drawn social media icon set

20. October 2008 • 66 comments

Handycons is a free, hand drawn social media icon set that contains 12 icons. Package contains icons for del.icio.us, Digg, Mixx, DesignBump, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Developer Zone, DesignFloat, Technorati, Twitter and RSS feed & Email icon, of course. All icons are available in four sizes: 16×16, 24×24, 32×32 and 48×48 pixels.

UPDATE (march 2009): There is Handycons2 icon set released in February 2009

I made it using ArtRage and my Wacom Intuo 3 ;)

handycons

Download icons (zip, 166kb)

Note: This post has disappeared for a couple  of days. I blame Windows Live Writer for this. Sorry!

66 Responses

  1. Janko 6. November 2008 at 22:38

    Dear readers,

    This post inexplicably vanished for a couple of days. I managed to restore the post, but all of your great comments disappeared permanently. Windows Live Writer is the one to blame for this. I will no longer use it!

    Sorry :(

  2. Dmitry 7. November 2008 at 00:36

    Very original and well drawn :) Good job

  3. Angie Bowen 7. November 2008 at 01:23

    Since you lost all your comments I thought I could come back to say how awesome I think these are. I’m still planning a free wordpress theme around them.

  4. Janko 7. November 2008 at 15:01

    Dmitry, thanks.

    Angie, can’t wait to see the theme :D

  5. chokilala 9. November 2008 at 12:14

    this is cute. hehe. thanks :D

  6. Alen Grakalic 21. November 2008 at 16:16

    Awesome icons man! Can’t wait to use them.

  7. Janko 21. November 2008 at 16:19

    Alen, Chokilala: Thanks, I really appreciate!

  8. Jeffrey Way 21. November 2008 at 17:05

    Really well done! I love these. You got a link from NETTUTS.com

  9. Janko 21. November 2008 at 18:44

    Jeff, thank you!!!

  10. sinan 21. November 2008 at 19:06

    Thank you man.

  11. Todd 21. November 2008 at 20:24

    Awesome! Any chance you could design some Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, and LinkedIn ones with the same style?

  12. Janko 21. November 2008 at 20:28

    Todd, I definitively plan to create Handycons II that will include much more. One of my readers left the comment in which he suggested more that 20 more icons, but unfortunately something strange happened with this post several days ago and I lost all of my comments. Still, Handycons II will be ready.

    If you have more suggestions feel free to leave here!

  13. camilo vitorino da costa 21. November 2008 at 22:08

    Great! very nice!!!

    thanks

  14. akira 22. November 2008 at 15:51

    Nice :)

  15. Webhome 22. November 2008 at 17:44

    Bedankt, altijd handig!

  16. RocyHua 23. November 2008 at 02:53

    so cuty works,I like these styles.

  17. Jash Sayani 24. November 2008 at 20:49

    Great Work !!! Really cool icons…. Just need to work a bit on the Twitter icon.

    Will use them on my WordPress blog……

  18. Janko 24. November 2008 at 22:46

    Thanks, guys!

    Jash: Thanks. Regarding the twitter icon, I made it look "naive" intentionally. I just like the way my son draws so I was inspired by his work :)

  19. Jonathan 25. November 2008 at 22:52

    AAAGH! These are amazing! I only wish they also included a Facebook icon. Alas, I can’t use them because I would never be able to replicate the look myself. Great job!

  20. markus 25. November 2008 at 23:27

    Wow! They look absolutely awesome!

    Thanks a lot!!!

  21. Samuel 26. November 2008 at 06:08

    It´s look good, great collection Janko, and your blog looks cool.

  22. ziosteve 7. December 2008 at 19:08

    Wow, this icons are so beautiful. I love that style!

  23. Tony Oravet 9. December 2008 at 21:27

    Great icon set. We are always looking for great icons to use on our clients sites! Great work!

  24. Christopher Francis O'Donnell 31. December 2008 at 00:48

    Do I need to give attribution?

  25. Janko 31. December 2008 at 16:46

    Christopher Francis O’Donnell: You don’t have to give attribution, but you can do it if you want :)

  26. Andy 15. January 2009 at 00:41

    Great icon pack here! I have featured it on my blog (hope you dont mind).

    http://www.kedoa.com/blog/resources/six-brilliant-social-media-icon-packs/

    Keep up the good work! :)

  27. blogger-godown 16. January 2009 at 17:01

    Thanks ……… i will use it in my blog

  28. Edo 19. January 2009 at 09:35

    Really great icons, thank you very much for them.

    Da ne moze mozda jos jedan facebook-icon, samo mi taj jos fali u kolekciji? ;)

    Edo

  29. Janko 19. January 2009 at 22:23

    Edo: Sure, I’m working on Handycons II :)

  30. Dean 26. January 2009 at 14:02

    I’m not sure if I’m the only one who’s getting this, but whenever I click on the download link, an errror pops up saying

    R6002
    -floating point not loaded

    It might be my machine, though, since all the other commenters didn’t seem to have any problems downloading it. This icon set looks really cool, and I’m looking to use it on the next version of my blog theme. :)

  31. Janko 26. January 2009 at 14:47

    Dean, I’ll send you on your email. Thanks for choosing Handycons ;-)

  32. Clayton Moore 27. January 2009 at 16:44

    Hi Janko

    Thanks for the handycons, I’ll try them out.
    Link worked fine for me.

    Cheers!

  33. Blogger Tutorial 11. February 2009 at 15:56

    Thank you very much for the icons, great share

  34. ExistentialDuck 17. February 2009 at 02:39

    I love the handwritten style – thanks so much for these!

  35. Leonardo R. 17. February 2009 at 15:51

    Nice icons! Thank you for share.

  36. andrew 19. February 2009 at 04:25

    This is a fantastic work, really nicely done. But what about poor lil’ old facebook? Any chance you could make one more icon (or maybe explain how you work this kind of icon voodoo)?

  37. Avinash Kaushik 19. February 2009 at 08:24

    Could I please add my voice as well for icons for:

    LinkedIn, Facebook, Flickr, and FriendFeed

    I list these (and Twitter) as text links on my blog, would love to replace them with your icons (so gorgeous!).

    Thanks,

    Avinash.

  38. Janko 19. February 2009 at 09:27

    Thanks, everyone!

    Andrew, Avinash: Thanks for the suggestions, I will release Handycons II soon wit all of these icons :)

  39. Chantal 20. February 2009 at 00:14

    Keen work! Add me to the fans hoping for:

    Facebook
    Flickr
    LinkedIn

    Can’t wait to use and promo your work.

  40. scriptwelt 27. February 2009 at 09:26

    Nice icons! Thank you for share!

  41. HeriNXI 3. March 2009 at 13:15

    Great Job, thanks for sharing :)

  42. Chrissy Morin 27. March 2009 at 15:08

    These are just awesome! Thanks for sharing.

  43. Lee Munroe 15. April 2009 at 01:27

    Awesome icons! Thanks for taking the time to design and share :)

  44. smartin 13. May 2009 at 20:36

    Thank you very much for these designs . I request you to add Twitter and mister-wong icons to this collection .

  45. smartin 13. May 2009 at 20:43

    Oh typo , Twitter is already available . Thanks anyways .

  46. Lendl Allen V. Trazo 24. May 2009 at 10:17

    Very, very cool indeed, I will use them for sure. :)

  47. Andrew 28. May 2009 at 14:28

    Very nice job. Hand drawn icons look so good and unique compared to others. Thanks!

  48. techknowl 30. May 2009 at 20:30

    Good work Janko . Are you using digital pen or just drawing and scanning them to file ??. But I wonder how the clarity and size of the files are maintained simultaneously .

  49. Jaky 4. June 2009 at 01:45

    Superb! Mind blowing icons. You can also create some more using different brush strokes and styles :)

  50. Eddie 16. June 2009 at 15:32

    Excellent!

    Thank you very much for this!

  51. LaLo 8. July 2009 at 15:48

    Janko
    Great icons! Can i use these on a website?

  52. MJ Stapleford Corporate Identity 21. August 2009 at 14:57

    These are really nice. So much more creative and artistic in style than the usual computer generated icon designs that you see all over the web. Nice work.

  53. James Dalton 5. September 2009 at 10:59

    I’m glad I came across this site as these icons are absolutely amazing and different

  54. nicolas 8. September 2009 at 22:47

    Awesome Icons, I wish I could create such great graphics.

  55. Tobi 17. September 2009 at 10:08

    Thanks!

  56. Metacom 11. October 2009 at 18:02

    These are really cool. Thanks for sharing them!

  57. Erik 16. October 2009 at 11:23

    Very nice drawn – me like! :)

  58. Peter 17. October 2009 at 11:31

    Really cool icons! Thanks a lot :)

  59. Steve Anderson 27. October 2009 at 01:11

    Thank Janko,

    These icons look awesome. I put them on the sidebar of my blog here; http://yourthankyoucard.com, I love em.

    I was wondering if you would do a Tumblr Icon one of these days?

    Anyway, thanks again…very cool. I’ll be sure to tell people about them.

    Cheers,

    Steve

  60. Peter 27. October 2009 at 20:06

    Well done Janko . Seems that you took some time to draw these awesome designs .

  61. michael 7. November 2009 at 14:27

    that was a great job and really i like them so much. my little brother just wondering that he could be like you someday, lol. still waiting for another great job from you Janko, keep working hard.

  62. Claudia 8. November 2009 at 18:51

    Useful, I think I’ll use it =)
    Thanks for sharing =)

  63. Taimur Khan 2. January 2010 at 14:16

    Hey nice one … i added this to my grand post .. I have collected icon packs from 60 different websites .. Its a big collection of all social media icon packs at one page .. u r gonna love it .. 60 Original Social Media Icon Packs

    http://www.vnoma.com/2009/05/60-original-social-media-icon-packs.html

    ENjoy !!

  64. Anoop 15. January 2010 at 05:51

    [b]Thanks[/b]

  65. Birgit 11. February 2010 at 18:59

    very nice work, they look great! thanks for sharing :)

  66. Adam 13. February 2010 at 02:48

    thanks!