60 Great RSS Icons for Your Blog
April 2nd 2008The standard RSS icon is too common. Everyone has seen it. Make your feed subscription more appealing by using one of the unique icons below.
The first 43 are all free, and many come with a range of color variations. The last section is probably free, but you'll need to email the authors to be certain. Click an image to visit the source of the icon.
Circular Feed Icons
Glossy Web2.0 RSS Icons
Rectangular
Miscellaneous
The "Probably Free, But Ask The Owner"s
The following icons are the ones I found in various blog sidebars or Flickr, but couldn't find the original source of. They link to the page I found them on. If anyone knows any of the sources, please let me know so I can give them credit.
With all those icons to choose from, you have no excuse for not finding an icon to suit your blog's design. And a huge thanks to all the designers who gave us these icons for free!
Bonus: Whatever you do, I wouldn't recommend using any of the alternative icons considered for Internet Explorer 7.
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April 2nd at 12:48 pm GMT
Comment #1
thanks.I need it.
April 2nd at 3:16 pm GMT
Comment #2
Nice RSS collection
I like the more creative ones when people use the icon in actual things... like the hot air balloon...
April 2nd at 3:57 pm GMT
Comment #3
Starfeeder,
I agree. Those 4 by Smashing were perfectly done. I'm not entirely sure I would put the hot air balloon in my sidebar, but the little newspaper man? Heck yeah!
April 2nd at 5:54 pm GMT
Comment #4
Michael,
nice collection.
I think the biggest RSS button is at HLWT (havelaptopwilltravel.com/biggestRSS.html)
April 2nd at 6:00 pm GMT
Comment #5
Franky,
Haha - I'd love to see that brute in a sidebar! Good find.
April 2nd at 8:54 pm GMT
Comment #6
Hellow m8
This is really great
It saved some for my blog. Thx men
Ronald
April 3rd at 1:01 am GMT
Comment #7
Wow this is an impressive list. Thank you so much..
The newspaper man is awesome. (At first glance I thought it was someone having a go)
April 3rd at 2:04 am GMT
Comment #8
Most of the RSS Icons are cool on one hand, but way too big on the other. In this size they are eye-catchers, like Ads, penetrating the sense of seeing, like "hey, click me..CLICK ME!!!"
But I like 4 of them, and I think the others are resizable in photoshop or whatsoever..
April 3rd at 9:00 am GMT
Comment #9
Circular ones always make me feel uneasy... I don't think I like circles as much as squares.
I love the ones that were on Smashing Magazine, and the tickets are cool. That little one with the shoes (not very clean around the edges) is from Vikiworks (see your own post reviewing the design!), but he's change to a little heeart RSS now.
I still like the standard ones too.
April 3rd at 10:10 am GMT
Comment #10
Superb icons, now the problem I have is to choose which one to use.
Regards.
April 3rd at 12:16 pm GMT
Comment #11
Ronald,
No problem. Glad you found it useful.
Black Zedd,
Haha - If you you really want, you could add the designer for a version like that?
Robby,
You can resize them all. I chose to use the biggest versions of most of them because resizing down is a lot better than resizing up (You lose a lot of the quality that way).
Kristarella,
The square is the more standard one, so I can see why it might seem better. But yep, I know the shoe one is from Vikiworks. Good idea though - The original icon might be in his theme download!
Jsanderz,
Haha, likewise! I think my standard icon needs an update.
April 3rd at 12:28 pm GMT
Comment #12
Oh, haha, I didn't hover over it to see that it actually linked there! It probably is in the theme download.
April 3rd at 2:12 pm GMT
Comment #13
Kristarella,
lol - Thanks for helping out any way.
April 3rd at 2:35 pm GMT
Comment #14
A great selection thanks!
April 6th at 7:18 pm GMT
Comment #15
thank you
April 7th at 5:13 pm GMT
Comment #16
Great list! I absolutely love them!!
April 10th at 2:06 pm GMT
Comment #17
Love these icons great work! will deffo use!
April 10th at 5:27 pm GMT
Comment #18
Waw, great idea, and nice blog either. thank`s..i will make for my own.. thank`s pro
April 11th at 2:14 pm GMT
Comment #19
You're all welcome. Glad you's liked the list.
April 12th at 6:38 am GMT
Comment #20
crazy... i like most of these rss-icons and i will use in my own blog in this summer
Ralph
April 12th at 3:26 pm GMT
Comment #21
Cool list. My favorites were the hot air balloon and the coffee mug.
April 12th at 11:31 pm GMT
Comment #22
this may be a stupid question...but how do i insert the icon to my new blogger.com page?
i used feed burner to put the regular icon there but i like the guy reading the newspaper so much more.
please answer quickly.
thank you in advance!!
April 13th at 9:00 pm GMT
Comment #23
Thanks for listing my RSS icon here Michael!
April 15th at 11:55 am GMT
Comment #24
OMG! The choices are endless...nice problem to have!
April 27th at 11:00 am GMT
Comment #25
I love the little guy sitting reading a newspaper. Got him on my blog.
April 27th at 12:19 pm GMT
Comment #26
No problem everyone. Hope yous all find a decent icon!
Brittany,
Sorry, I didn't see your question before now! Still need the help?
May 5th at 5:22 am GMT
Comment #27
thank you for this listing..
i'd stumble this..
May 7th at 5:54 pm GMT
Comment #28
Thanks for sharing these. I'll bue spicing up my blogs shortly.
May 8th at 3:03 pm GMT
Comment #29
im really feeling the circular ones
feel like a kid in a candy store
May 11th at 2:45 am GMT
Comment #30
Can someone provide detailed instructions on how to get the 'RSS Subscribe' icon on my blog so people can click it and subscribe to my entries? I don't know how to do it, what code to get, where to paste it in to my template or anything - I am a newbie! Thanks!
May 11th at 1:26 pm GMT
Comment #31
Yeeeha! Where has this page been all my life? Someone posted to these in the forum. I'm going to make some mods now. Thanks for compiling this extremely useful list. Consider it tweeted as well