Social media icons have become a fundamental part of digital branding. Whether you’re designing a personal blog, a SaaS landing page or a full-blown marketing site, clear and stylish social icons are critical for encouraging sharing, enabling follows and aligning with your brand’s voice.
This is not just a dump of free downloads. This is a curated list of well-designed, relevant and still-usable social media icon sets, most of them vector-based, customizable and license-friendly for personal or commercial use.
All of these options are either free or open-source, but always double-check individual licensing for commercial projects.
What Makes a Social Icon Set “Excellent”?
Before we dive in, here’s what I look for when curating a social icon set in 2025:
- Pixel-perfect or vector-based (SVG, EPS, or AI formats preferred)
- Multiple file formats for flexibility (PNG, SVG, WebP)
- Scalable for modern screen sizes
- Clean, modern design or a strong stylized theme
- Regular updates or active community backing
- License clarity (Creative Commons or free for commercial use)
Whether you’re creating a minimalist UI or something more playful, this list has something that’ll fit.
1. Simple Icons by Dan Leech
- Style: Flat, minimalist
- Format: SVG
- License: MIT
- Why it’s great: These are among the most popular open-source icons on the web today. Actively maintained and perfect for web apps or static sites.
2. Feather Icons
- Style: Lightweight, outline
- Format: SVG
- License: MIT
- Why it’s great: Feather isn’t social-specific, but includes major social platforms and integrates cleanly into modern UIs.
3. Font Awesome Free
- Style: Solid and brand icons
- Format: Web font, SVG
- License: CC BY 4.0
- Why it’s great: A staple of web development. The free version includes popular social platforms and is easy to integrate via CDN.
4. Iconoir
- Style: Monoline, minimalist
- Format: SVG, React, Figma
- License: MIT
- Why it’s great: Very developer-friendly with a consistent style and excellent Figma support.
5. Bootstrap Icons
- Style: Sharp, consistent
- Format: SVG
- License: MIT
- Why it’s great: Perfect for Bootstrap-based projects or sites that value design consistency and performance.
https://icons.getbootstrap.com
6. Remix Icon
- Style: Two-tone, modern
- Format: SVG
- License: Apache 2.0
- Why it’s great: Includes a wide array of brand icons with options for line and solid styles.
7. Unicons
- Style: Line icons with personality
- Format: SVG, Web font
- License: Free with attribution
- Why it’s great: Includes a huge library of social icons and comes with light and bold variations.
8. Iconic Social Media Pack
- Style: Branded icons in colored and monochrome versions
- Format: AI, EPS, PNG
- License: Free for personal and commercial use
- Why it’s great: Great for designers looking for styled or colored options for print or web.
9. Social Media Line Icon Set by Pixel Buddha
- Style: Thin-line
- Format: AI, SVG, PNG
- License: Free for personal and commercial
- Why it’s great: Modern and super versatile. Looks great on light and dark UIs.
10. Eva Icons
- Style: Flat and outline
- Format: SVG, PNG
- License: MIT
- Why it’s great: Includes essential brand icons in both filled and outline styles.
https://akveo.github.io/eva-icons
11–27: Designer-Focused Sets with Style
The next 17 icon sets are a mix of visually creative options and theme-specific sets for designers who want something unique. These might be hand-drawn, 3D-styled or built with a specific aesthetic in mind.
11. Socialicons.me – Modern Flat Icons
12. Flat Social Media Icon Set by Designbolts
13. Iconmonstr Social Collection
14. Hand Drawn Social Media Icons by DeviantArt Users
https://www.deviantart.com/search?q=social+media+icon+set
15. Vecteezy Free Social Packs
16. LineIcons
17. Roundicons Free Pack
https://roundicons.com/free-icons
18. Designbeep Free Icons
19. Smashicons Free Social Media Pack
20. Webalys Streamline Icons
21. Ionicons
22. SVG Repo Social Icons
23. Heroicons
24. Jam Icons
25. Tilda Icons
26. Zondicons
27. Custom Packs on Dribbble
https://dribbble.com/search/social-icons
Wrapping Up
There’s no shortage of free social media icon sets out there, but not all are created equal. Whether you’re going for clean and professional or bold and stylized, the key is to pick a set that aligns with your brand and integrates well into your site’s UX.
If this list helped you find a set that works, feel free to share the post or leave a comment with your favorite free icon pack that we might’ve missed.
And if you’re rethinking your entire sharing strategy, take a look at how to increase your viral potential with better social buttons.
32 replies on “27 Excellent Free Social Media Icons Sets”
These are awesome! Thanks for sharing
These Social Media Icons Sets are impressive, what would be the best way to display these as a widgit on Blogger?
Nice collection! And thanks for including Evohosting’s Starry Site icon set!
Joe Dawson: AddThis has just created a solution that allows you to use their service with custom images. I think this might be your best bet. But I’ll tell you what …. I’ll look into it and maybe make it one of the next posts I put up. Until then you can try and figure it out yourself using http://addthis.com/help/toolbox#images
Jon, Thanks for including our black inlay on steel social media icons in this post. Much appreciated. 🙂
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Nice List! Thanks for including mine 🙂
Gopal Raju
productivedreams,
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Especially love the colorful ones. What sets these apart from all the rest is that these are unique and not just copied like in a lot of other websites!
Cheers
Here’s another free set of hand-drawn social media icons:
http://www.noop.nl/2010/01/free-hand-drawn-social-media-icons.html
Cheers,
Jurgen
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i really like the heart-shaped icons.
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Been looking for some social icons for our latest round of website updates, so thanks for sharing these great collections.
Also good to see some people contributing to the discussion 🙂
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