20 October 2008 66 Comments

Handycons - a free, hand drawn social media icon set

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: 16x16, 24x24, 32x32 and 48x48 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!

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Janko is a UI designer, software engineer, blogger, speaker and artist. You can read more about him and warp speed blog here.

66 Comments

Janko 06 Nov 2008 #

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

Dmitry 07 Nov 2008 #

Very original and well drawn Good job

Angie Bowen 07 Nov 2008 #

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.

Janko 07 Nov 2008 #

Dmitry, thanks.

Angie, can't wait to see the theme

chokilala 09 Nov 2008 #

this is cute. hehe. thanks

Alen Grakalic 21 Nov 2008 #

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

Janko 21 Nov 2008 #

Alen, Chokilala: Thanks, I really appreciate!

Jeffrey Way 21 Nov 2008 #

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

Janko 21 Nov 2008 #

Jeff, thank you!!!

sinan 21 Nov 2008 #

Thank you man.

Todd 21 Nov 2008 #

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

Janko 21 Nov 2008 #

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!

camilo vitorino da costa 21 Nov 2008 #

Great! very nice!!!

thanks

akira 22 Nov 2008 #

Nice

Webhome 22 Nov 2008 #

Bedankt, altijd handig!

RocyHua 23 Nov 2008 #

so cuty works,I like these styles.

Jash Sayani 24 Nov 2008 #

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

Will use them on my Wordpress blog......

Janko 24 Nov 2008 #

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

Jonathan 25 Nov 2008 #

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!

markus 25 Nov 2008 #

Wow! They look absolutely awesome!

Thanks a lot!!!

Samuel 26 Nov 2008 #

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

ziosteve 07 Dec 2008 #

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

Tony Oravet 09 Dec 2008 #

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

Christopher Francis O'Donnell 31 Dec 2008 #

Do I need to give attribution?

Janko 31 Dec 2008 #

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

Andy 15 Jan 2009 #

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

www.kedoa.com/.../

Keep up the good work!

blogger-godown 16 Jan 2009 #

Thanks ......... i will use it in my blog

Edo 19 Jan 2009 #

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

Janko 19 Jan 2009 #

Edo: Sure, I'm working on Handycons II

Dean 26 Jan 2009 #

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.

Janko 26 Jan 2009 #

Dean, I'll send you on your email. Thanks for choosing Handycons

Clayton Moore 27 Jan 2009 #

Hi Janko

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

Cheers!

Blogger Tutorial 11 Feb 2009 #

Thank you very much for the icons, great share

ExistentialDuck 17 Feb 2009 #

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

Leonardo R. 17 Feb 2009 #

Nice icons! Thank you for share.

andrew 19 Feb 2009 #

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)?

Avinash Kaushik 19 Feb 2009 #

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.

Janko 19 Feb 2009 #

Thanks, everyone!

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

Chantal 20 Feb 2009 #

Keen work! Add me to the fans hoping for:

Facebook
Flickr
LinkedIn

Can't wait to use and promo your work.

scriptwelt 27 Feb 2009 #

Nice icons! Thank you for share!

HeriNXI 03 Mar 2009 #

Great Job, thanks for sharing

Chrissy Morin 27 Mar 2009 #

These are just awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Lee Munroe 15 Apr 2009 #

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

smartin 13 May 2009 #

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

smartin 13 May 2009 #

Oh typo , Twitter is already available . Thanks anyways .

Lendl Allen V. Trazo 24 May 2009 #

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

Andrew 28 May 2009 #

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

techknowl 30 May 2009 #

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 .

Jaky 04 Jun 2009 #

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

Eddie 16 Jun 2009 #

Excellent!

Thank you very much for this!

LaLo 08 Jul 2009 #

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

MJ Stapleford Corporate Identity 21 Aug 2009 #

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.

James Dalton 05 Sep 2009 #

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

nicolas 08 Sep 2009 #

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

Tobi 17 Sep 2009 #

Thanks!

Metacom 11 Oct 2009 #

These are really cool. Thanks for sharing them!

Erik 16 Oct 2009 #

Very nice drawn - me like!

Peter 17 Oct 2009 #

Really cool icons! Thanks a lot

Steve Anderson 27 Oct 2009 #

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

Peter 27 Oct 2009 #

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

michael 07 Nov 2009 #

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.

Claudia 08 Nov 2009 #

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

Taimur Khan 02 Jan 2010 #

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ENjoy !!