25+ Mac OS Style Icons Every Designer Should See

As for me, icons are the most tasty parts of any web design. They can be a simple and effective way to introduce the content of your site to the users. Everybody knows that great lyrics takes an important part in your works...but if you'll add some stunning icons, you'll be astonished with an immediately increased positive effect that will returned to you as a boomerang !

Icons have a psychological purpose too. You can use them as breaks between paragraphs: they will interrupt the visual content and make it less daunting to read.

As you can guess, computer iconography has a long and thorny path of development. The first icons were created in 1981 when one of the first computers with a graphical user interface (GUI) had released (Xerox Star). Xerox demonstrated the principle of human interaction with the computer via an interface. You can see how little the OS interface has changed in the past 30 years. The icons of Calculator, Document, Folder and Trash are almost the same!

If you are good in Photoshop, you can create your own eccentric icons. But if your drawing skills are poor or you haven't time to create icons it is not a problems nowadays! Many talanted designers draw icons not only for personal needs, but also for sharing with other icons lovers. Furthermore, many of this icons are free to download!

So, today I'd like to share with you a cool and unusual collection of free icons. If you are looking for some Mac OS-style icons, you have chosen a right place :). The Mac OS style often uses realistic effects in the form of water drops , glass and plastic buttons. But what really make Mac OS style icons stand out from the crowd?

Below, we showcase beautiful and comely Mac OS style icons which lead to the main source and where you can download them absolutely for free.

Look at this amazing example of icon for coffee lovers! It's so realistic! I can almost smell a scent of coffee, looking at it!

Boxing Glove iOS Icon is one of the best icons I've ever seen! Awesome depth and texture!

This iPhone Application Compass Icon designed by Anna Shlyapnikova - freelancer from Russia.

57 px - iPhone
72 px - iPad
114 px - iPhone4
512 px - iTunes

Camera App Icon is designed in a bright color sheme. Unity of red and black colors is a win-win choise, becouse it is one of the most classic and attractive color combinations.

I was so glad to find this stunning Photo Albom icon for an iOS App. Hope you'll like it too :)

- How did you create this awesome icon?
- I bought an old vintage camera, break into pieces, scanning the texture part-by-part. Let Wall-E squeeze it to a single rounded square shape. Bring it in to the Axiom ship with the auto pilot mode ON. Throw it to outer space in a lightyear.

An easily editable and generic iOS Icon for Book Related Apps.

Do you like cookies? I think, the designer was a little bit hungry when he was creating the Cookie Shaped iOs Icon.

Winn iOS App Icon is designed in comfort and luxury way.

This Radio App Icon can be used in vintage or retro webdesign style.

Best solution for personal organizer iOS App Icon. It is designed in a wooden style with colorful bookmarks.

Audio Format Cassette Icon v.01. The vintage style is a very popular in webdesign and I'm one of its great fans! And it always causes a strangely pleasant feeling when you see things from our everyday life such as Youtube, RSS, Twitter, or email dressed in this crumpled, slightly rusty coat of the past.

An accurate wooden iOS Icon for Music Related Apps.

Very creative! Canon EOS 5D Mark II is original iOS icons with amazing details.

Here are Contacts, Reminders, and Folder icons for an iOS 5 theme.

One more example of vintage icon - Twist Radio. If you want to create a really attractive retro design, you should add some illustrations and icons of old radio and television devices.

Comely Mac Os icon for restaurant or cafe finder App.

Here are some icons for Settings, Contact, and WB. Nice glossy look :)

Creative funny iQuarium Icon with illustration of killer whale.

This is a Honeycomb Icon in iOS (iPhone app) style.

Icon for a super-addictive brick-breaker Circuloid iPad game.

Target iOS App Icon draft for a future unnamed webapp.

Icon for the Soupyo.app (first soup.io client for iPhone)

Camera Mac OS icon with a cool "eye" illustration.

Unique and larger-than-life thai mackerel Mac OS icon from Mae-klong.

Comfortable and easy-to-use Address Book icon in Mac OS style.

A pillow shaped like an iOs Icon... what could be better?

Mac OS style icons are well known for their simple and elegant designs. Begin to use this icons!

It is hard to deny that icons are stunning examples of web works of art. Designers are spending many hours to create simple and elegant design of icons. Yes, they are small, but in the same time they are so time-consuming! Look at showcased icons again and check how detailed they are.