Public Domain Icons

These icons were originally made for Mosaic for X and have been

included in the NCSA httpd and Apache server distributions in the

past. They are in the public domain and may be freely included in any

application. The originals were done by Kevin Hughes

(kevinh@kevcom.com).

Many thanks to Andy Polyakov for tuning the icon colors and adding a

few new images. If you'd like to contribute additions or ideas to

this set, please let me know.

Almost all of these icons are 20x22 pixels in size. There are

alternative icons in the "small" directory that are 16x16 in size,

provided by Mike Brown (mike@hyperreal.org).

Suggested Uses

The following are a few suggestions, to serve as a starting point for ideas.

Please feel free to tweak and rename the icons as you like.

a.gif

This might be used to represent PostScript or text layout

languages.

alert.black.gif, alert.red.gif

These can be used to highlight any important items, such as a

README file in a directory.

back.gif, forward.gif

These can be used as links to go to previous and next areas.

ball.gray.gif, ball.red.gif

These might be used as bullets.

binary.gif

This can be used to represent binary files.

binhex.gif

This can represent BinHex-encoded data.

blank.gif

This can be used as a placeholder or a spacing element.

bomb.gif

This can be used to repreesnt core files.

box1.gif, box2.gif

These icons can be used to represent generic 3D applications and

related files.

broken.gif

This can represent corrupted data.

burst.gif

This can call attention to new and important items.

c.gif

This might represent C source code.

comp.blue.gif, comp.red.gif

These little computer icons can stand for telnet or FTP

sessions.

compressed.gif

This may represent compressed data.

continued.gif

This can be a link to a continued listing of a directory.

down.gif, up.gif, left.gif, right.gif

These can be used to scroll up, down, left and right in a

listing or may be used to denote items in an outline.

dvi.gif

This can represent DVI files.

f.gif

This might represent FORTRAN or Forth source code.

folder.gif, folder.open.gif, folder.sec.gif

The folder can represent directories. There is also a version

that can represent secure directories or directories that cannot

be viewed.

generic.gif, generic.sec.gif, generic.red.gif

These can represent generic files, secure files, and important

files, respectively.

hand.right.gif, hand.up.gif

These can point out important items (pun intended).

image1.gif, image2.gif, image3.gif

These can represent image formats of various types.

index.gif

This might represent a WAIS index or search facility.

layout.gif

This might represent files and formats that contain graphics as

well as text layout, such as HTML and PDF files.

link.gif

This might represent files that are symbolic links.

movie.gif

This can represent various movie formats.

p.gif

This may stand for Perl or Python source code.

pie0.gif ... pie8.gif

These icons can be used in applications where a list of

documents is returned from a search. The little pie chart images

can denote how relevant the documents may be to your search

query.

patch.gif

This may stand for patches and diff files.

portal.gif

This might be a link to an online service or a 3D world.

ps.gif, quill.gif

These may represent PostScript files.

screw1.gif, screw2.gif

These may represent CAD or engineering data and formats.

script.gif

This can represent any of various interpreted languages, such as

Perl, python, TCL, and shell scripts, as well as server

configuration files.

sound1.gif, sound2.gif

These can represent sound files.

sphere1.gif, sphere2.gif

These can represent 3D worlds or rendering applications and

formats.

tex.gif

This can represent TeX files.

text.gif

This can represent generic (plain) text files.

transfer.gif

This can represent FTP transfers or uploads/downloads.

unknown.gif

This may represent a file of an unknown type.

uuencoded.gif

This can stand for uuencoded data.

world1.gif, world2.gif

These can represent 3D worlds or other 3D formats.