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Can someone recommend a good site that has free replacement icons for forums?

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For : useful free icon sources and practical notes beyond the links already mentioned by and .

Reliable, developer-friendly icon sets (SVG/icon-font first) to consider: Font Awesome, Google Material Icons, Feather Icons, Heroicons, Iconmonstr, SVGRepo. Pick SVGs when possible — they scale crisply on HiDPI screens and are easy to recolor with CSS.

Quick practical checklist when replacing forum icons:

  • Back up the original icon files or theme.
  • Match the expected sizes or update the forum CSS selectors to point to your new assets.
  • Prefer inline SVG or an SVG sprite so icons inherit color (use fill: currentColor) and are reachable by CSS.
  • Keep decorative icons aria-hidden="true" and provide visible or off-screen text for screen readers.

Minimal accessible pattern:

<a class="topic unread" href="/t/123">
  <svg class="icon" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 24 24" aria-hidden="true" focusable="false">
    <path d="..."></path>
  </svg>
  <span class="sr-only">New posts</span>
  Topic title
</a>

.icon { width:16px; height:16px; fill:currentColor; display:inline-block; }
.sr-only { position:absolute; left:-10000px; width:1px; height:1px; overflow:hidden; }

Licensing and testing: always check each pack's license page (some require attribution or forbid commercial use). Prefer CC0 or permissive licenses if you cannot provide attribution. Optimize for performance (SVGs or sprite sheets; or 2x PNGs if you must use raster). Test changes in multiple browsers, on mobile, and with a screen reader — see MDN for accessibility guidance: . For license basics refer to: Creative Commons — About the licenses.

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