Millions of designers and graphic enthusiasts use his site daily. His search engine Iconfinder is the ultimate resource in the whole net for finding high quality icons and has been featured in countless reviews since it’s foundation in 2007. Many will even go further and state that Iconfinder is the ultimate resource for designers in the whole wide web. He started this idea out of frustration, since he wanted an efficient way to search through all the icons he had in his hard drive. Who would have thought?

What really impresses me is his high curatorial values. Not any icon is fit to be featured in this search engine. And that is why its simply the best. Show your love to this unique web developer by leaving your comments and go ahead and take the opportunity to congratulate him because he got married in September. Wish you the best man!
So here it is; Developer, icon hero, newlywed. Martin Leblanc.

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Undoubtedly, Deviant art is THE best source for free high quality icon sets on the net. Deviant unites the best artists and lets us search their work with an easy navigation within a friendly interface.  But there are also many other resources that with a little percentage of patience will give you very good sets.  As I made up my last posts with the 500 best icons in the web, I had to use every tool I could find, testing various search engines and reading tons of blogs. I want to share with you my ten favorite icon search engines, that, added to this blog and to deviant art, will make you bearer of the ultimate library of icon sets in the universe. Imagine as if I were giving you the complete ring kit from lord of the rings, or the revised edition of god’s book on how to be happy. Iconwise I mean.

1. Iconfinder

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