Public Domain Icons

1993

Many thanks to Andy Polyakov for tuning the icon colors and adding a few new images. If you'd like to contribute additions or ideas to this set, please let me know.

Almost all of these icons are 20x22 pixels in size and are in GIF format. There are alternative icons in the "small" directory in the Apache server distribution that are 16x16 in size, provided by Mike Brown (mike@hyperreal.org).

Suggested Uses

The following are a few suggestions, to serve as a starting point for ideas. Please feel free to tweak and rename the icons as you like.

• a.gif
  This might be used to represent PostScript or text layout languages.
• alert.black.gif, alert.red.gif
  These can be used to highlight any important items, such as a README file in a directory.
• back.gif, forward.gif
  These can be used as links to go to previous and next areas.
• ball.gray.gif, ball.red.gif
  These might be used as bullets.
• binary.gif
  This can be used to represent binary files.
• binhex.gif
  This can represent BinHex-encoded data.
• blank.gif
  This can be used as a placeholder or a spacing element.
• bomb.gif
  This can be used to represent core files.
• box1.gif, box2.gif
  These icons can be used to represent generic 3D applications and related files.
• broken.gif
  This can represent corrupted data.
• burst.gif
  This can call attention to new and important items.
• c.gif
  This might represent C source code.
• comp.blue.gif, comp.red.gif
  These little computer icons can stand for telnet or FTP sessions.
• compressed.gif
  This may represent compressed data.
• continued.gif
  This can be a link to a continued listing of a directory.
• down.gif, up.gif, left.gif, right.gif
  These can be used to scroll up, down, left and right in a listing or may be used to denote items in an outline.
• dvi.gif
  This can represent DVI files.
• f.gif
  This might represent FORTRAN or Forth source code.
• folder.gif, folder.open.gif, folder.sec.gif
  The folder can represent directories. There is also a version that can represent secure directories or directories that cannot be viewed.
• generic.gif, generic.sec.gif, generic.red.gif
  These can represent generic files, secure files, and important files, respectively.
• hand.right.gif, hand.up.gif
  These can point out important items (pun intended).
• image1.gif, image2.gif, image3.gif
  These can represent image formats of various types.
• index.gif
  This might represent a WAIS index or search facility.
• layout.gif
  This might represent files and formats that contain graphics as well as text layout, such as HTML and PDF files.
• link.gif
  This might represent files that are symbolic links.
• movie.gif
  This can represent various movie formats.
• p.gif
  This may stand for Perl or Python source code.
• pie0.gif ... pie8.gif
  These icons can be used in applications where a list of documents is returned from a search. The little pie chart images can denote how relevant the documents may be to your search query.
• patch.gif
  This may stand for patches and diff files.
• portal.gif
  This might be a link to an online service or a 3D world.
• ps.gif, quill.gif
  These may represent PostScript files.
• screw1.gif, screw2.gif
  These may represent CAD or engineering data and formats.
• script.gif
  This can represent any of various interpreted languages, such as Perl, python, TCL, and shell scripts, as well as server configuration files.
• sound1.gif, sound2.gif
  These can represent sound files.
• sphere1.gif, sphere2.gif
  These can represent 3D worlds or rendering applications and formats.
• tex.gif
  This can represent TeX files.
• text.gif
  This can represent generic (plain) text files.
• transfer.gif
  This can represent FTP transfers or uploads/downloads.
• unknown.gif
  This may represent a file of an unknown type.
• uuencoded.gif
  This can stand for uuencoded data.
• world1.gif, world2.gif
  These can represent 3D worlds or other 3D formats.