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In case any of you have not seen it yet Icon Buffet is a great icon community check it out and if you decide to get a free account I will promise to send any of my fellow designers anything they need and help ya out :)

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This thread started with a community recommendation from and a few quick reactions about accounts and paid assets from , and . Years later the same decisions matter: legal clarity, consistent style, and sensible integration. The short guide below focuses on what to check and a compact workflow so icons stay useful and safe in production.

Licensing checklist: confirm commercial use is allowed, whether modification is permitted, if attribution is required, and whether redistribution (bundling inside apps or templates) is allowed. Keep a copy of the license text with the project. For company work, prefer an explicit commercial/extended license that removes ambiguity about redistribution and removal of attribution — this is the core of ’s point about buying icons for business use.

Technical: favor SVG for UI icons — they scale, theme easily, and reduce the need for multiple raster sizes. Optimize every SVG, unify viewBox sizes, and make icons colorable by using currentColor so CSS controls appearance. Example inline SVG pattern:

<svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">
  <path d="M5 12h14M12 5v14" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round"/>
</svg>

Accessibility and workflow: decorative icons should use aria-hidden="true". Meaningful icons need role="img" plus title or aria-label (use aria-labelledby for complex graphics). Maintain a single source of truth (SVG symbols or an icon component), store license metadata with assets, and only export PNG fallbacks when necessary. Quick workflow: license check → optimize and standardize SVGs → make them styleable (currentColor) → add ARIA semantics → bundle/inline for performance. This approach keeps design consistent, legally safe, and accessible long after the original posts.

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Member Avatar for nav33n

no thanks. I don't want a free account.

Member Avatar for macneato

Make that two of us

Member Avatar for AndrewJ

Well they do have nice icons!

Andrew

Member Avatar for louiss

Superd! Cool Icon, thanks.

Louiss

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Nice site, Also see my sig link

Member Avatar for Jia22

I prefer buy icons
As my company is engaged in creating websites so we
need for sure high-quality licensed images for our business.
You can choose some icon stock ( I use where I can find also icons)

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