Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources

From Lifehacker: Top 10 Free Wallpaper, Fonts and Icon Sources

  1. Web site Pixelgirl offers several free sets of icons and desktop wallpapers for download, as well as a few handy tutorials for using them.
  2. Dual Screen Wallpapers, a collection of widescreen images for your desktop.
  3. A favorite among web designers, Veer’s collection of desktop wallpapers are modern and artsy and available for download in several resolution sizes (free site registration required to download).
  4. Talented designer Jos Buivenga offers 6 beautiful fonts as free downloads at his portfolio site, exljbris. Unlike many free font sources on the web, these are good-looking quality, work safe fonts that will make your documents and presentations look well-designed and unique.
  5. The Crystal Clear icon set, available at Wikimedia Commons, is an attractive collection of icons fit for web sites and desktops.
  6. Don’t let the title fool you; this collection of photos taken for Windows Vista’s default wallpaper selection will work on any operating system. These images, published by the photographer, weren’t selected by Microsoft to be included in Vista by default but they’re still gorgeous.
  7. Want the font from Alias, Buffy, Pez, Puma or Depeche Mode? Check out TypeNow.net’s collection of free themed fonts.
  8. Icon-lover Jonas took a gaggle of public domain images and made them into icons with transparent backgrounds, so you can have real world items like speakers, keys and bandaids represent documents and software on your desktop.
  9. InterfaceLIFT is a fantastic source of wallpapers of any size - from widescreen to handhelds (like the iPhone or PSP.) Use a convenient bookmarklet there to see your current resolution and choose the image size to download from a handy dropdown.
  10.  Fonts 500 is 5 pages of 100 free fonts that you can preview with your text right on the page before downloading.

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