Best Holiday, Christmas, and Winter Icon Sets

It’s that time of the year again, with about three weeks until Christmas and with all the holiday cheer in the air, it is also time to begin thinking about getting your designs ready for this season. Whenever you see a site that spruces up their design with RSS icons, it can help light up your day.

While there have been hundreds of icons sets released aiming to be placed on sites and within projects over the past few years, some of them might not be considered “good” enough to place on your site. Therefore, we have created this list to help you around the holiday season, brining you some of the best icon sets around.

Each image links to the particular icon set, and some details about each have been provided to give you an idea what is included within each set. They are all free to use, but remember that some attribution may be required if the license has been attached.

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Best Holiday & Winter Icon Sets Around

Christmas Surprise (4-in-1) Icon Set

49 high-quality icons in PNG, ICO, and ICNS format, available in various sizes.

Christmas Icons by ~kakkr

5 icons in PNG and ICO formats. Intended for personal desktop use only.

Christmas Icons 2007 by ~gakuseisean

5 PNG, Mac, and Windows icons. Intended for personal desktop use only.

Christmas XP by ~deleket

28 dock and desktop replacement icons – PNG, ICO, and ICNS format. Released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Christmas Dock Icons by *petercui

6 Mac and Windows icons at 256×256 pixels. Copyright-free.

The Real Christmas ’05 Reloaded Icons

20 icons in Macintosh, Windows, and PNG formats included.

Free Christmas Icons from Clever Icons

5 icons in PNG, GIF, ICO, and BMP formats. Sizes range from 16 to 256 pixels.

Xmas 2009 Icon Set

Includes ICO and PNG formats, for private use only.

Christmas Icons by ~gakuseisean

5 PNG and ICO Christmas icons that have been released for personal desktop use.

Christmas Feed Icons

15 icons in five variants and three different dimensions. Licensed under Creative Commons.

Dellixmas Christmas Icon Set

Icons in various sizes, along with an Adobe Illustrator source image.

Archigraphs Xmas Dock Icons by ~Cyberella74

5 icons in Mac, Windows, and PNG formats. Released under a Creative Commons License.

Christmas Mini Pack by `arrioch

12 icons for Windows XP (or any operating system).

Adobe CS3 Icons by ~iixo

12 icons in ICO, ICL, and ICNS formats, as well as a PSD file for customization. Released under a Creative Commons License.

Christmas Santa Hat Icons by ~878952

PNG, ICO, and ICN formats, various sizes included.

Vista Christmas Bin Pack by ~Guylia

PNG icons at 256×256 pixels.

Christmas Dock Icons by ~chicho21net

8 PNG icons released under a Creative Commons License.

Happy Holidays 2005

Contains icons in all the popular formats.

Christmas Icons by ~jliewiens

5 icons in PNG, Mac, and Windows formats, 256×256 pixels. Personal use only.

The Polar Express

Contains six icons with large resources for Vista/Windows and Leopard/Mac.

Christmas Icons by ~LeoHutter

JPG format, ideal for desktop use.

Xtal Icons by *weboso

16 icons in JPG format. Note that the original download link doesn’t appear to be working.

Xmas Pack by ~blackblurrr

Various-sized icons in ICO and PNG formats.

Free Vector Christmas Icons

49 icons in GIF, PNG, ICO, and vector EPS formats. You can use them for any purpose, including commercial. Mini icons also available.

Winter Holiday Icons

Free icons in Mac and PNG formats.

Christmas “Postage Stamp” Icons

Adobe Illustrator and JPG formats included.

Deck the Halls Icon Set

A set of 20 icons you can use on your dock. AI Source File also included.

Santa Claus Icons

Five icons in Windows and Mac formats. They can be used for personal, desktop use.

Merry Christmas Icons

ICO, PNG, and ICNS formats included. The 12 icons can be used for personal use.

My Christmas

Windows format (ICO) icons.

30 Christmas Icons

Comic-Style Christmas Icons

Conclusion

We hope you enjoyed this collection of icon sets. If you have any other suggestions to add to this list, please do so in the comments.

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