{"id":2208,"date":"2017-02-07T05:36:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T05:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cssreset.com\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2017-02-07T05:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T05:36:27","slug":"5-best-free-icon-fonts-for-your-next-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/5-best-free-icon-fonts-for-your-next-project\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Best Free Icon Fonts for Your Next Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at CSS Reset, we&#8217;re big fans of <a href=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/\/best-uses-for-fontawesome-icon-fonts\/\">using icon fonts<\/a> in place of .pngs or other images in our projects. You may have noticed that we usually use\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fontawesome.io\/\" target=\"_blank\">Font Awesome<\/a>\u00a0in our tutorials that require an icon font, but Font Awesome is hardly your only option when it comes to free and easily accessible icon fonts. <a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">We Love Font Icons<\/a> is a site that hosts a number of different free icon fonts. We Love Font Icons works similarly to Google Fonts in that it hosts many different collections of font icon families, and you simply choose the ones you want to work with and the code for those font families will be generated for you.<\/p>\n<p>Check out a list of some of our favorites from their collection below.<\/p>\n<p>1. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Entypo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2210 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 4.26.13 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.26.13-PM-1024x462.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.26.13-PM-1024x462.png 1024w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.26.13-PM-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.26.13-PM-180x81.png 180w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.26.13-PM.png 2006w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Entypo is a modern collection of useful pictograms that would be perfect to use in any of your upcoming projects. Entypo&#8217;s collection includes common iconography along with social media icons.<\/p>\n<p>2. <a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fontelico<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2211 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 4.29.09 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.29.09-PM-1024x484.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.29.09-PM-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.29.09-PM-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.29.09-PM-180x85.png 180w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.29.09-PM.png 2026w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>Fontelico is an interesting (and slightly random) collection of cool emojis and browser logos.<\/p>\n<p>3. <a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iconic Fill<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2212 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 4.33.50 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.33.50-PM-1024x465.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.33.50-PM-1024x465.png 1024w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.33.50-PM-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.33.50-PM-180x81.png 180w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.33.50-PM.png 2018w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Iconic Fill is a cool collection of font icons that feature a lot of tech and web development related icons. It features symbols of batteries, phones, sleeping devices, locked devices&#8230;basically, it&#8217;s a great collection to use if your project is in the tech category.<\/p>\n<p>4. <a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maki<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2213 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 4.36.55 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.36.55-PM-1024x484.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.36.55-PM-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.36.55-PM-300x141.png 300w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.36.55-PM-180x85.png 180w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.36.55-PM.png 2018w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maki features a lot of icons that represent activities &#8212; art, sports balls, bikes, etc, while throwing in some more general purpose icons as well &#8212; burgers, coffee, shopping carts. This is a good collection for general use.<\/p>\n<p>5. <a href=\"http:\/\/weloveiconfonts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Zocial<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2214 aligncenter\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2017-02-07 at 4.39.00 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.39.00-PM-1024x440.png\" width=\"1024\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.39.00-PM-1024x440.png 1024w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.39.00-PM-300x129.png 300w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.39.00-PM-180x77.png 180w, https:\/\/cssdeck.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/Screen-Shot-2017-02-07-at-4.39.00-PM.png 2018w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for social media icons or brand icons, zocial is \u00a0probably right for you and your project. 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