Personally, I think folder icons are the most useful of all the icon sets you can think of. Designing a good folder set requires special taste and inventivity, since they are so embedded in your operating system, and so continuously clicked, that a poor design can be obtrusive and disfigure your computer entirely. Contrary to the movie themed icon list I made last week, were the selection was difficult due to scarce sources, finding folder icons was like shooting fish in a barrel. (not that I ever shot a fish. Nor a barrel. In fact I haven't shot anything in my life outside Halo)
The difficult part was to debug the humongous quantity of low fi stuff. I think I saw almost 500 folder icon sets for three straight days to get down to a hundred, and if I didn't have a deadline, I would have probably continued this list to 200. I am really proud of this selection, being my longest top list so far, and really expect you readers out there to dig your icon hungry fangs in each set.
Rejoice, this is the longest list of this particular kind of icon sets on the whole web till date. (hope Smashing magazine isn't reading)
So, Without further ado... Enjoy!
1. Rise for Windows
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2. Christmas Folder
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3. Avalon
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4. H2O
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5. Eclipse
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6. Zero
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7. Somatic Rebirth
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8. Legendoria
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9. Whan Yen
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10. Hoya Imperial
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11. Harmonia Pastelis
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This set is one of the most impressive, detailed, and artistic sets I’ve seen in my whole life. This girl’s work is very impressive and I would put her without hesitation inside the list of the 10 best icon artists on the web.
12. Aha Folder
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13. iComic
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14. Scrap
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15. Vista Boxes
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16. Leomx
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17. EZ Folders Aloha
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18. EZ Folders Gray
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19. Study
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20. Dark Light Suite
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21. Adobe Cs3
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22. Micro
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23. Dragon XP Folders
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24. Yeti Box
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25. Application Vol. 1
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26. Application Vol. 2
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27. Sketchbook
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28. Aqua Candy 2
Susumu Yoshida
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29. World of Aqua
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30. Elastic Folders
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31. Minum Calabi
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32. 2k8
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33. Leox Graphite Vol 2
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34. Icons 10 Complete
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35. Flush
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36. Jane
Jack Kronborg
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37. Warped
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38. Pry System
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39. Sweet Library
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40. Made of Wood
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41. Classy Glassy
Amaus Design
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42. Wiccan
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43. Leopard Aqua
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44. Wii
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45. Slick
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46. Carlito’s TI Folders
Carlos Reyes
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47. MM Folders
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48. MM Folders 4
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49. High Tech Rave Up
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50. Pratch’s Graphite
Pratch
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51. Flaticons
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52. Colorflow Flags
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53. Colorflow Apple
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54. Blue Leopard
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55. White Leopard
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56. DI Folder
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57. Colorflow Cincinnati Bengals
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58. Colorflow Art
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59. Briefcase
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60. Befolders
Kellen Vandam
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61. Andy Warhol Folders
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62. MM Snow
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63. MM Pink
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64. MM Folders 1
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65. Colorflow Freemind
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66. Colorflow Auto insurance
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67. Manhole
Suki
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68. C7 Jaguar
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69. X File Drawers
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70. Zen
Suki
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71. Colourflow Set 1
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72. Colourflow Antivirus Set
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73. Opacity
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74. Leopard Variations
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75. Macintag
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76. Leopard Custom
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77. Colourflow Graphics
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78. Colourflow 3D Applications
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79. Colourflow Torrents
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80. Colorflow 1.0
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81. Colorful
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82. Tramont
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83. New Aqua
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84. Sapphire
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85. Orion
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86. Sketch
Suki
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87. Colourflow Media Set
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88. Colourflow Operating System Set
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89. Camouflage
Maik Wirt
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90. Colorflow 3a Adobe
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91. Colourflow Internet Folders
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92. Folders Box
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93. Classic Folders
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94. Colorflow 3b Adobe
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95. Colorflow Installer
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96. Colorflow 1b Folders
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97. Colorflow Politics
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98. Colorflow 15e Extras
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99. Folders RGB
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100. Download
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June 19th
grrr, third time my comment got deleted. I’m posting in new thread at iconshock – go read it there n give my email (listed here) to yoono (from twitter) plz.
http://www.iconshock.com/vista_icons/blog-forum_detalle.php?id=14546&name=detalle
June 19th
Awesome G, What a great job collecting these folders for us, I’m with JJay though in hoping they are not all for the MAC. I have d/l’d a few and will check them out, If I can use them, I’ll come back for more 😉 I’ve missed a few articles and need to catch up and I’m not sure this will post…so what’s up with that? LOL I am also looking forward to the iconshock article you’re going to write, right? Keep up the good work G, It’s always a pleasure to see what you’ve been up to.
June 19th
Wow your collection of folder icons is simply amazing. How you have the time to find and organize this with all the renovations going on down there makes this weeks blog post that much more impressive. Thanks for taking the time to put together this great collection of folder icons. I look forward to your future posts to see just what next. Keep up the really great and entertaining work I really appreciate it.
June 19th
Sorry that last post was made by me G.
June 19th
Zandor, man, anonymous or not, your words are always very nice and vital for the community. Thank you very much for your contribution on the forum, keep it up and I might have to split a percentage of my salary with you:) Wish you the best. Thank you very much.
June 19th
Wow hot icons, I can’t wait to download them all! Thanks for the contribution.
June 19th
Amazing gallery!!!
June 19th
Just awesome G, I think there isn’t much more to say 😉
June 21st
http://www.foldermarker.com/folder-marker-home.php?
is quite good at changing windows folders
June 22nd
Terrific folder collection, several “must have” designs! Thx, G!
June 23rd
Thank you very much Sven!! Very glad you liked it!
June 23rd
Iconoclast! long time no see. Which set was your favorite?
October 7th
Cuando vi esto no lo podía creer! es la mejor lista de todo internet. He buscado por todos lados y no hay otra otra igual. Ni en Honkgiat ni en Smashing. De todo es tu apellido compadre Piñeros?
October 8th
Hey Cholo muchas gracias por tus comentarios! Soy Colombiano. Por tu URL y tu nick asumo que sos chileno verdad?
October 16th
This list is huge! How did you find all these incredible icons? Thank you very much Iconshock!
October 27th
I think I’m going to last a century downloading and installing. Thanks!
October 27th
100 folder sets! WTF?
October 27th
Excellent Icon sets. Beats Smashing Magazine lists!
October 27th
I just can’t keep with so many! Thanks!
November 2nd
Love the Iconshock set.
November 2nd
Love the Iconshock Folder set. One of the best featured!
November 2nd
Un saludo desde Bogotá! Genial esta lista de íconos. Voy a incluirlos en mi RSS. Donde queda la empresa?
November 2nd
I found this article in twitter and you guys got me hooked right away! Massive collection of icons you got there my friends!
March 6th