Silk Companion 1 (more Silk icons)
Mark James (FamFamFam) created a great set of 1,022 silky-smooth 16×16 true-colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons.
My set was fuelled by a need for a additional icons and variations in the same format. I had hoped to create more original icons in the same style however time constraints meant that majority of the 460+ icons are derivations and recompositions of the original set.
Download Silk Companion #1 (ZIP of PNG) (384 KB)
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[...] (20th Nov 2007: the new icon set is now available!) [...]
[...] has created an extra set of 460+ icons in the same [...]
Excellent work. Silk has probably become the de facto icon set for the Internet and whilst Mark has decided to give up adding to the set, it’s good to see that somebody else has decided to extend it and continue the great work. Can’t believe nobody else has commented on this yet!
Iconos Silk Companion…
¿Quién no conoce el paquete de iconos Silk Icons de FamFamFam? Es uno de los paquetes de iconos más grande, más usado y de mejor diseño que se distribuyen de forma libre en la web. Y por si esto fuera poco, damieng hace una extensión con 460 icon…
Nice work!
[...] m?s usado y de mejor dise?o que se distribuyen de forma libre en la web. Y por si esto fuera poco, damieng hace una extensi?n con 460 iconos. Con el paquete original, m?s este complemento se tienen m?s de [...]
[...] von FamFamFam. Super für eigene Anwendungen! Wem das aber noch zu wenig ist, kann sich ja noch den Kumpel von Silk mit über 460 weiteren Icons im Silk Stil [...]
[...] usado y de mejor diseño que se distribuyen de forma libre en la web. Y por si esto fuera poco, damieng hace una extensión con 460 [...]
Totally rad dude. Smoothly silkified
[...] Los iconos Silk Companion son una ampliación del paquete de iconos yo creo el mas utiliza en la web mas bien en los blogs, los Silk Icon de FAM FAM FAM, esta ampliación cuenta 460 iconos de gran calidad hechos por damieng. [...]
Really good pack, many times I was searching for a icon on the silk pack and it wasn’t there, but now we have more icons, thank you :D
EXCELENT WORK MEN ;)
great icons!
Thanks for these icons!
[...] Icons umsonst! [...]
[...] Damieng ha hecho una ampliación del famoso paquete de iconos de famfamfam. Esta ampliación consiste en más de 460 iconos. [...]
thanks !!
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Nice Work!
Awesome. We use Silk for some of the icons in Interclue (a firefox addon) and we’re always adding new stuff to it, so these will likely come in very handy. Cheers!
Grazie per il tuo lavoro! – Thanks for your work!
[...] has created a set of 460+ small web application icons – Silk Companion Icons, that is an addition and and variations with the popular Silk Icons from FamFamFam. Free to [...]
I always wondered why famfamfam didn’t continue developing what as you say has become the defacto icons of the interwebs. Three cheers for your excellent extention work.
I already know and use the FamFamFam-Icons, and yours are a great addition, thanks a lot!
[...] genre mini-icônes, voici une petite sélection à ne pas rater : famfamfam, Pixelicious, Sweetie, Silk Companion, Tango Icon, Pinvoke, Vaga, [...]
lol~very good,great icons,thx:))))
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very very nice work excellent icons men
Fantastic work, I’ve found what I was missing in “Silk icons” :)
Great work!
[...] Silk Companion 1 (more Silk icons) – More slik icons look like famfamfam.com’s by damieng.com but [...]
Really great work! I’m still waiting for “Silk Companion 2″. ;-)
This is awesome, are there any more in the works??
There are no more in the works – can’t think of anything else to add. If you have some specific ideas request them here! :)
[)amien
Simply because I’m looking for them and attempting to avoid building them myself:
* Sent Mail (envelope with an arrow on the right facing right?)
* Received Mail (envelope with an arrow on the right facing left?)
:)
Great work Damien! I’m impressed :)
On that requesting… I’m looking for a video cassette icon in this style. Can you help me? Other portable media would be great too (like audio cassette, laserdisc, etc…). Well, if you have time to do it, that is ;)
Looking for more Silk icons? Check out the Silk Icon Contrib project at http://nikcodes.com/2008/10/06/silk-icons-contrib/
Great work! Thanks so much for your work in this space. I would suggest some lock modifications such as coloring? Maybe a grey version?
I’ve packaged your Icon Set with a custom Ext JS Extension to manage Icons.
http://tdg-i.com/52/tdgiiconmgr-and-iconbrowser-update
A link to your site was posted accordingly.
Thanks,
-jay
Thanks for a additional icons.
Food and Health icons would be nice. Things like plate, fork, fruits, protein, carbs, scale etc.
Cool. Thanks for the extra icons. Nice.
Perhaps someone should stick a wiki-page/discussion thread somewhere to add icon requests? There have definitely been times when I wanted something not in the original set – I don’t remember now, though, what they were.
Thanks a lot, these are excellent companions to the original set.
Gracias por los iconos, están de miedo…..MUCHAS GRACIAS
a really nice set. good thing you didnt put them in the “public domain!” hahahaha
The originals are under creative commons and most of these are derived from that so I can’t make them a more liberal licence than the original.
[)amien
Great work on this extension to Silk. We’ve been working on one ourselves for the geospatial software domain: http://projects.opengeo.org/geosilk/
Mark James has since allowed the set to licensed under CC-BY 3.0 (see: http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/) which is more compatible with free software licenses. Do you plan to similarly license yours as CC-BY 3.0?
Thanks!
I really like the bug icon in Silk. But there are no companion icons for it. Here are some ideas for new icons (In the context of bug tracking):
1. Feature (opposite of a bug?)
2. Change request
3. Won’t fix
4. Not a bug
Great icons, it’s a shame FamFamFam hasn’t released more.
I miss a filter icon/filter icons: http://turbomilk.com/img/10mis-filter.png
There is a lot in this set, but an icon for filtering is lacking.
Thank you very much. You’re the best!
This is great!
I do have a suggestion for more icons: Messenger icons for profiles – seeing how many forums use this iconset now; most of them have totally unfitting messenger icons.
Thanks for the great collection of the icon.
Really cool icons, thanks…
How about adding the four seasons – spring, summer, autumn, winter
One icon I always felt was missing was an “Inbox” icon that was distinct from (unread) email.
Anyway thank you for contributing to this, it’s a beautiful thing!
Thanks for these Damien. I’ve created Silk Companion II (64 new icons): http://www.cagintranet.com/archive/download-famfamfam-silk-companion-2-icon-pack/
@Chris: THX
I too was feeling the need for some additions and variations to the excellent silk collection — even though the original set is huge and very complete, it doesn’t always cover all your icon needs. Now thanks to you the collection is even more complete. Thanks a lot for the contribution!
I’ve a question, what icon size does a normal desktop application need?
Is there some kind of standard?
And why not using svg for the icons?
Toolbar icons are around 24×24, desktop icons on Windows either 32×32 or 48×48 and Mac Icons can range from 512×512 down.
I drew these icons based on an existing set of 16×16 icons so there were no other options.
[)amien