The very popular Flat UI trend on web design has inspired designers to create awesome things around it like flat UI kits and icons. Another design trend that’s going popular nowadays is Long Shadow icons.
What are Long Shadow icons?
Long shadow icons basically carry a long shadow of the object within themselves. If you don’t know how such an icon looks like, below Dribbble shot says it all:
I don’t know who discovered this creative way to design graphics, but it looks pretty cool on modern web design. If you want to avoid the use of gradient effects in your designs, as its an old school technique now, then this concept of long shadow graphics can be a good replacement of that.
Shadow icons are going popular on Android devices as well, there are some cool themes available on the play store as well. This post is a showcase of some awesome long shadow social media icon sets that you may download for free to use in your app or website, provided you follow the license provided by the creator.
- A set of 30 beautiful long shadow circle-shaped icons brought to you by Web Designer Depot. You may download the icons for free by becoming a subscriber (which is also free) and can also use them in personal as well as commercial projects.
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90 long-shadow icons created by Hakan Ertan. Available in two shapes (round & square), you get the icons as layered PSD in the bundle.
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Designed by Victor Bejar, 15 icons layered in a PSD, free to be used in every way you want.
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A pack of 40 square-shaped pixel-perfect icons by Graphic Burger, available in 4 different sizes in a layered PSD.
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20 slick vector icons with long shadow effect by WeGraphics downloadable as layered PSD.
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A nice one by Speckyboy that contains 30 100% vector icons available in both shadowed and flat (without shadow) versions in PNG and PSD downloads. Free for personal and commercial use.
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Brilliant piece of work by Pixeden, 16 social icons in a layered PSD, free to be used in personal and commercial work.
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Pretty, hexagon-shaped social icons designed by Suleiman Leadbitter. The set carries 16 items in a PSD, can be used in any kind of works.
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40 PNG icons in color and grayscale – designed by Michele Meggiolan
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A 12-icon “Ice Cream Sandwich” set by BeingCreative, downloadable in PSD & PNG. You may use it anywhere.
I tried best to find the license info of the above mentioned icons, but still recommend you to read it before start using them in your projects.