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Share This! 15 Surprisingly Awesome Social Media Icons

Most websites employ the use of social media websites that allow their readers to share content with their friends through third-party sites like Digg, Reddit and StumbleUpon. This helps both the original website and the reader when, especially when the “share this site with your friends” section is nicely decorated. Here are 15 of the best social media icon sets that we’re found so far.

Tydlinka’s Set of Social Icons on DeviantArt

Tydlinka includes two dozen icons of the most popular social media sites, and an extended set for a number of social sites that rock, but nobody knows about. An extension to the extended set are grunge alternatives that go well with many of the ‘hand-drawn’ blog themes that became popular last year.

Paul Robert Lloyd’s Social Media Icons

Paul created and released this set of 36 icons in summer of 2009, with two later updates that bring the total number of icons to 60. Almost every popular social site is included, with icons for WikiPedia, OpenID and Nike+ rounding out the choices.

Komodo Media Mini Iconpack

Komodo Media created this set of 30 social media icons back in December of 2008. While they are a bit dated, all of the icons are pixel-perfect representation of logos and branding nicely squeezed into a 16×16 pixel icon.

Handycons

Twelve hand-drawn icons of popular sites created by Janko in four sizes, starting at 16×16 and ending with 48×48. An update was released in late Winter 2009 to include 20 more icons like Flickr, PayPal and Sphinn.

Dellifeed Icons

Mmm, smashingly tasty icons. SmashingMagazine worked with the fine folks at Dellustrations.com to create this artistic collection of 8 social media icons ranging from teeensy 16×16 all the way to huuuge 512×512. Show me a blog that uses a 512×512 icon and I’ll show you a winner in the game of life. BTW Smashing, want to buy my site?

Turbomilk Webset Icons

The beautiful people over at GraphicRiver asked the handsome pimps at Turbomilk to create this awesome set of gorgeous icons for your use in exchange for a link back to their site. Pretty cool, since it includes detailed icons for sites like FaceBook, Google, ThemeForest, Blogger and StumbleUpon.

Hearting Social Icon Set

I love you, and I love SmashingMagazine, which is why I’m loving the chance to write about the Hearting icon set created by non other than Aravind Ajith, the fun-loving lover behind TheDesignSuperHero. The set includes 22 icons and transparent PNGs and is cleared for use in both free and commercial projects. Share the love by linking back to the site, though.

Heart v2

Aravind Ajith shows that he loves his readers by updating the popular Hearting icon set to include more social sites like Reddit, Delicious and Twitter. The same hearty shape, and the same loving feel. Share the love with these social icon! (lame attempt, I know)

TheLeavesFall: Social Icon Set

Chalk another one up for Smashing! TheLeavesFall social icon set includes 11 fall/autumn shaped icons for most of the popular bookmarking sites. These would look great on a seasonal blog theme.

Social Bookmark Iconset

You spin me round, baby like a record, baby – something something, threes company too. Here’s a nice round set of two-billion icons, including Yahoo, Flickr and that one site that aggregates blogs.. some people call it Technorati.

Social Post Stamps

Marco.. Marco… Folio! Marcofolio’s portfolio website-o produced and released these thirteen postage stamp icons that include two sets of each: one with a border, and one without.

ProductiveDreams PagePeel Social Icons

Due to popular request, the kind spirits at ProductiveDreams published this set of sixteen ‘ripped-paper’ style PagePeel transparent PNGs. To see an example, look at the left side of any page on their site. Looks pretty snazzy, if I can say so myself. (Can I say that?)

WeFunction

WeFunction released their icon pack which includes more than just a few of the more popular social media sites. In fact, their collection includes 275 icons that can be used for web-apps, web templates or just about anything else that uses icons – including your desktop.

Sada Socialnich Ikon

I can’t tell you what the site actually says, and looking at the icons themselves put me at a loss for words even in my own native tongue. They are slightly slanted and have a thin, dashed border while an overall unique background pattern creates a nice seamless effect.

Location Set

The DesignWasHere Location icon set featured 10 glossy icons that you’re free to use in commercial projects or website. Redistribution carries the requirement of contacting them and getting permission to do so.