Nevertheless, the choice of 128×128 pixel PNG or GIF should be useful enough for most of us. The icons are very pretty and if only they were vectors, it would be a slam dunk. Whatever the case, if you need a Google product icon, you’ll find it here. To be honest, I haven't even heard of a dozen or so of the Google products listed here, but the doesn't necessarily mean these aren't popular services with millions of users. Rather, this is a pack of icons of various Google products, some of which are social but most of them aren't.
#Vector icons social media free series#
The last item on this list is a little different because this doesn’t represent a series of social sites. And raster icons are still widely in use and this will hardly change in the near future.Īnd now, here is my shortlist of hand-picked free social icons: Again, I felt this would have been unfair as it would have excluded some of the finest examples in the category.
There is also no doubt that vector icons are more useful because of all the flexibility they offer – and the rise of SVG adoption – and I set out to avoid raster icons all together. However I found so many attractive 'non-flat' social icons I decided to broaden my criteria with this piece.
In the previous article in the series, I focused entirely on flat icons. Because of this, you can only benefit, if you add social icons on your site or on the sites you design for clients. This is hardly surprising, considering the amount of time people dedicate to social sites and the rewards they offer when your users share your content to these networks. Of the thousands of icons you can find online, social network icons would have to be among the most numerous.