famfamfam silk icons css-sprite version
Many of you have probably used or at least heard of the famfamfam silk iconset in the past. 1000 free 16×16px icons for every purpose you can think of. Many websites or software packages are using it.
But 1000 icons means (in case you really use all of them) 1000 HTTP requests which is really a lot. And even if you’re using only ~100 icons, that’s still a lot of HTTP requesting.
For this reason I created a small CSS sprite version of the popular iconset including all 1000 icons in one single 299K png file + 1 stylesheet (56 KiB). (Filesize was reduced almost by half! (355K instead of 646K, that’s a reduction by 46%)).
Usage
Very simple. Just add a span to your markup, then add the class „icon“ and „iconname„.
Example:
<span class="icon attach"></span>
Download
Grab the file here:
http://www.manuel-bieh.de/publications/download/fff-sprites.zip
License
As the original iconset, the sprite is filed under Creative Commons Attributions 2.5