50 Unusually Awesome Icon Sets for Mac

Icons provide the basic means of interaction on your Mac. A well designed set can ensure you always know what to click on, and at the same time experience an attractive visual interface. Icons are extremely easy to customize on a Mac, so we’ve gathered together a collection of 50 exceptionally beautiful sets.

Talented icon designers aren’t always that easy to find, and I hope you enjoy being pointed in the right direction towards some really brilliant collections! They’re classified into Apple Hardware, Metallic & Professional, Photorealistic, and Sketch & Cartoon.

Apple Hardware

MacBook Pro

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MacBook Air

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White MacBook

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Black MacBook

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iMac 2008

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Mighty Mouse

mightymouse

Apple TV

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Metallic & Professional

Alumi

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G5 System

g5system

Pure

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Ived Drives

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Aperture & Light Room

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Minium

minium

Blend

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Float

float

Aqua Neue (Graphite)

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External Drives

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Dashboard Collection

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Titanium System

tsystem

Black & Blue

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NOD

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Milk App

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Photorealistic

Agua

agua

Agua Apps

aguaapps

Matrix Rebooted

matrixrebooted

Matrix Documentations

matrixdocumentations

CHUMS

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Thanksgiving

thanksgiving

Pirates

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Mission Impossible

missionimpossible

Stainless

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Amora

amora

Doctor Who

doctorwho

World of Aqua 2

worldofaqua

Xtra Homes

extrahomes

Battlestar Galactica Vol 4

bsg

Kill Bill

killbil

Nintendo Wii Icons

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Sketch & Cartoon

Eat Me

eatme

Sticker Pack 1

stickerpack1

Sticker Pack 2

stickerpack2

Sticker System

stickersystem

Somatic

somatic

Somatic Rebirth

somaticrebirth

Son of Somatic

sonofsomatic

Litho Extras Vol 5

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iSystem

isystem

Inauguration Hope

inauguration

Smooth Icons 13

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Smooth Icons 14

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Conclusion

As you can see, there’s no shortage of stunning icons when you dig around sites such as Iconfactory, Pixelgirl Presents, Interface Lift and Deviant Art. If you didn’t find what you’re looking for here, one of those sites should certainly satisfy your icon needs!

If you’re particularly fond of an icon set not featured, feel free to link it up in the comments.

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  • Aw, this includes my favourite icon set – the sticker ones. I re-iconned my entire system with that set; they’re gorgeous.

    • The sticker set is cool.

  • If you need an icon of the new mac book (not the pro one) check out http://twinware.deviantart.com/art/New-MacBook-2008-Icon-100808649

    Cheers, Thomas

  • Nice drop! I was just about to hunt for some new icons. You saved me some time. :0)

  • Decent. Most of this list has been posted on countless other design and mac blogs many times before. “[X amount] of [Adjective here] Icon Sets”.

  • Whoa. Nice. Thanks;

  • Im surprised Jonas Rask’s Pry didn’t make it to the list O_O

  • I’m so tired of these lists….

  • This is a long list.. was tired going through it.

  • the only thing could be said is WOW!!
    thanks

  • Thanks a lot for all thoses great sets!

  • Oh boy, what a yummy pack of sets ^^,
    I love the first MBP & MB ones <3

  • Seen all these on other Apple blogs and websites.. also come across them in my own searching. – But good effort.

    Deviantart has some of the best icons.. my favorite though has to be the Pry System ones from here: http://jonasraskdesign.com/downloads/downloads.html

    I know a designer who is about to release some mind blowingly awesome icons soon.. he doesn’t have a site at the moment though so I can’t post the link.

    - iTomath

  • I noticed you had some Apple hardware, but no iPods.

    What about these?

    http://dustinschau.com/#rw04

  • I thought I had all the best Mac icons but I actually found 4 on here to download. Good jhob!

  • BS! how could you not include Buuf?

    http://mattahan.deviantart.com/gallery/#Icons

  • For those of you who are still on Tiger and use Shapeshifter, this also opens up and installs iContainers, and I’ve found works more smoothly than both Candybar and Liteicon (with which I’ve experienced crashes and/or unsuccessful icon changing). Didn’t even know Shapeshifter did this–just stumbled over the feature. Ctrl-click on the iContainer and choose Open With > Shapeshifter Proxy. This will install the icons in Shapeshifter, and then you can choose font sets from the same menu that you choose themes, desktops, etc. Works like a charm, and it’s one less app to worry about.

  • Saw this on Lifehacker! Thanx for the compilation!

  • How do I get these to work with LiteIcon? Would love to start messing around with these but I can’t seem to get the icons I download to be recognized by LI

  • Quick correction: The “Ived Drives” are actually called “Ive Drives”, after the Apple designer.

  • I think it’s a nicely compiled list. You can find a whole load of icons like these on http://interfacelift.com. That’s where I get all of mine.

  • pfff… what a shit post. Anyone of you who had already visited sites like iconfactory or deviantart should know the icon sets mentioned here.

    I am tired of this kind of posts: 30 awasome icons, 23 fantastic wallpapers, 40 shitty shit…etc.

    You have not chosen the icons, just look some of the top downloaded sets and pasted them here, what a shity post.

  • Amazing icon sets! Thanks

  • Thanks a lot for all thoses great sets!

  • thank you very much for these great sets

  • i love the icons! Great work, nice collection.

  • Thanks a lot for all thoses great sets

  • What are the fantastic icons these are.
    Amazing I can’t believe that!

  • These icons are really awesome & amazing.
    thanks for posting this informative things.

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  • There are a lot of great points here,
    but I’m not sure I agree with real-time search being discarded.
    I agree that it’s not verey relevant,but isn’t the point of it
    to show what people are currently saying about a topic.

  • Awesome. just awesome…i haven’t any word to appreciate this post…..

  • I agree that it’s not verey relevant,but isn’t the point of it
    to show what people are currently saying about a topic.

  • There are a lot of great points here,
    but I’m not sure I agree with real-time search being discarded.

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  • There are definitely some unusual ones but i like this. I will be using a few of these on my mac. Keep up the good work.

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