Free Solar System Icons

After the overwhelmingly positive response from the Apple TV Icons, I decided to make another icon set just for fun. It’s 13 solar system icons inspired by objects in the Milky Way. The set contains the Sun, Moon, 8 planets, and 3 dwarf planets. They are all HUGE 512×512 sized icons, and they’ll go quite nicely with our Celestial Background Set. So have fun, make some spacey designs and enjoy! - - Be sure to comment and tell us what you think!

Download all 13 Solar System Icons (512×512, PNG):

Add a Comment   |   August 30th, 2008 (3:23pm)   |   Insider   |   Posted by Dan

1. Richard  |   August 31st, 2008 at 11:38 pm  

   Thank you for your generosity in sharing your work!

2. Dan  |   August 31st, 2008 at 11:43 pm  

   You are very welcome! Thanks for taking the time to comment, it’s great to hear.

3. Vincent J. Bova  |   September 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 am  

   Guys, once again great work, and just a little information for those who want to scale these to the actual planet size you can use this site to obtain ratios. Set Jupiter as your biggest planet and scale to the ratios calculated for the other planets.

   http://www.sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/messenger/psc/PlanetSize.html

   Enjoy!
   Vincent

4. David G  |   September 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm  

   Thank you. Great Job and very generous.

5. Dan  |   September 3rd, 2008 at 2:30 pm  

   Hey Vincent, that is pretty neat! Thanks David!

   Also, I made some non-glossy versions of the icons. You can click here to download them. Enjoy!

6. Michael  |   September 9th, 2008 at 1:41 pm  

   What are these for?…i dloaded them from apple but they won’t open. Is it screensaver?

7. Dan  |   September 9th, 2008 at 2:20 pm  

   Hey Michael. The icons are available in 3 formats. The icons posted on Apple’s site are Mac formatted icon files (can only be viewed on a mac). The icons attached to the download button in the blog post above are PNGs (those can be used on any platform). I also created them in Windows icon format (which can only be viewed on Windows). Here’s all the links for your downloading pleasure.

   • Mac OS Icons (10.5 and above) [download]
   • Windows Icons [download]
   • PNGs (512×512) [download]

8. joeyCes  |   September 15th, 2008 at 3:08 pm  

   Great job Dan.

   Those look awesome.

9. Dan  |   September 15th, 2008 at 4:38 pm  

   Hey thanks Joey!

10. Maddz  |   September 24th, 2008 at 6:24 am  

    What happened to the 16×16 pngs on iconarchive.com? 512×512 is waay too large for what I was using them for…

11. wargsm  |   October 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm  

    Great set, much appreciated.

12. absolut-desing  |   November 6th, 2008 at 7:34 am  

    very very fantastic icon colletion thank you for share for al the people

13. Daniel  |   November 25th, 2008 at 11:47 pm  

    Thank you very much