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No matter how awesome the content and your presenting skills, your visuals are equally important when it comes to winning the audience’s attention. One of the best ways to direct attention to certain parts of your presentation is through icons. They look not only great, but also represent entire concepts and can replace a lot of text.  With this in mind, we did a lot of digging and collected a huge variety of free presentation icon sets that you can download and use in your future PowerPoint presentations.

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Icons for business presentations.

• Icons for educational and school presentations

Icons for marketing presentations

• More good icons you may need

Business presentations don’t have to be boring. Instead, you can add more “life” to them by adding some icons, which will visually improve your presentations and make them more legible for your audience.

1. Free Business Startup Icons

If you need some flat and colorful icons for your next project, this graphic icon set is the one for you. It uses a couple of colors, but all icons have interesting concepts that can grab the attention.

• Icons Included: 77
• Style: 2D, Flat
• File Formats: SVG
• License: Free for Personal and Commerical Use with Attribution

2. Free Lifestyle and business icon set

A collection of 108 various lifestyle and business icons. You can find a whole lot of interesting icons, including a birthday cake, a bunch of marketing tools, a first-aid kit, etc. What we loved here is that you can access the icon set as PNG images, too, so you won’t have to work with vector files .

• Icons Included: 108
• Style: Glyph
• File Formats: PNG, SVG
• License: Free for Personal use

3. Solid and Linear B&W Business icon pack

What you will find in this vector collection are 152 basic glyph icons that can fit many needs. Among them, there are many marketing and e-commerce icons that can serve your needs. Since they’re vectors, you can easily modify them afterward.

• Icons Included: 152
• Style:  Flat, Glyph
• File Formats:  SVG
• License:  Free for Personal use

4. Business Icons Free Hand-Drawn Set

An amazing hand-drawn doodle collection that consists of 46 EPS business icons. Among them, you will find 4 currency icons (USD, EUR, GBP, CNY), a calendar, a trophy, a crown, and a variety of other marketing tools, such as charts, different-shaped comment balloons, and others. If a green color palette is something that you like, you will definitely like this set.

• Icons Included: 46
• Style: Hand-Drawn, Doodle
• File Formats: EPS
• License: Free for Personal and Commercial Use with Attribution

5. Free Hand-Drawn Business Icon Collection

Not everyone favors colorful icons. If you’re searching for basic black-and-white doodles, then this free hand-drawn business icon collection might be the best fit for you. You will find plenty of business and marketing tools, such as a puzzle, a calendar, a badge, and even a tie!

• Icons Included: 25

6. Free Hand-Drawn Financial Icon Collection

This vector set of 25 financial icons is also attention-grabbing. While the icons aren’t that “playful,” as what we can see on the left, this vector graphic collection is formal and can fit many presentations and designs where attention to detail and clarity is prioritized over cool-looking designs.

• Style: Outlined

7. Realistic Business Set Free Icons

In case you’re looking for something realistic, this amazing set of 3D icons might be your best bet! While the icons are only 9, you will find everything you need to present yourself in a good light.

• Icons Included: 9
• Style: 3D, Realistic

8. 3D Business Icons Free Set

In a similar fashion to the previous set, this one is also coming with nine 3D designs that look realistic. Our favorite is the bow tie, as it looks stunning, and you can’t many 3D icons of that kind.

9. Finance Free Doodle Icons Set

A lovely hand-drawn collection of 20 business icons that can help you with your presentation designs. Among the cool doodles, you can find a bank, exchange, wallets, and even a piggy bank. These are great assets if you’re after financial icons.

• Icons Included: 20
• Style: Doodle, Hand-Drawn

10. Free Business Icons Set

If you’re looking for modern illustrations with a hand holding different business assets, this set of 16 free flat-style business icons might be your next stop. You’ll find a variety of financial instruments, cards, and charts.

• Icons Included: 16
• Style: Flat Style, Illustrations

11. Business Presentation Free Icons Set

A collection of 36 fancy two-color business icons that can help you boost your presentation. You can access this vector set for free, and you can even use the icons for commercial use. Among the designs, you will find plenty of unusual icons, including a lighthouse and a concept map.

• Icons Included: 36
• Style: Outline

12. Free Colorful Business Icons Set

If you like drop shadows, then this collection of 16 circular-shaped business illustrations will grab your attention. You can use all colorful designs free of charge for personal and even commercial use, and you can find everything needed to kickstart your presentations.

• Style: Colorful, Flat, Illustrations

13. Free eCommerce Icons Set

Another set of 16 flat colorful illustrations in a circular shape. The main difference is that, unlike the previous collection, you can find plenty of e-commerce icons here – such as shopping cart, bags, customer service, and different “sale” labels – all perfect for web UIs and presentations.

14. Office Life Free Icons Collection

Hunting for office life icons? Great! This hand-drawn collection of 12 office icons will perfectly suit your needs. The lovely doodles come in grey/white/blue, and you can find everything you need – a checklist, a contract, a printer, a wallet, books, and even a pyramid.

• Icons Included: 12

15. Teamwork Free Icon Set

The teamwork free icon set follows the pattern of the office life collection. It comes with 12 unique, hand-drawn illustrations, all of which are available for personal and commercial use (with attribution). Among them, you can find hands, people, and puzzle pieces, among other vectors.

16. 25 Office Life Yellow Icons Set

Yellow, yellow, yellow! That’s right. It’s a vector pack of 25 free office life vector icons. What we like about the collection is that every icon has a label under the illustration to ensure you have understood what it is about.

17. 25 Office Life Colorful Icons Set

Another office work icon set comes in 25 different graphics, this time more colorful. Red, blue, and orange are the standout colors among the beautiful outline icons. Again, you have labels for each illustration which is handy.

Icons for educational presentations

Well, business people are not the only ones who need icons for their presentations. That’s why we will present you with a variety of educational icon packs that you can apply to impress your audience.

18. Free Colorful Education Icon Pack

A collection of 40 two and three-dimensional illustrations that can help you present in front of your students. Among the educational icons, you will find plenty of books, sheets, awards, as well as subject-related icons, such as a telescope, a ruler and a compass, chemistry flasks, and others.

• Icons Included: 40
• Style: 2D/3D
• License: Free for Personal and Commercial use (with Attribution)

19. Free Linear School Icons

If you need to add simplicity to your presentation but want to do it with style, this free vector collection of 20 linear school icons is right for you. All the designs are education-related, and can be used for multiple purposes, as well as for specific subjects.

• Style: Linear , Hand-drawn

20. Free 3D School Icons

3D icons are cool, we have to admit it! On our website, you can find plenty of cool school icons that you can utilize in your practice. Feel free to check them out. The best of all is that you can apply them directly to your presentations, as they come with a transparent background (and a purple one!)

• File Formats: PNG
• License: Free for Personal and Commercial Use

21. Free Education Icons Collection

If you’re looking for more 3D educational icons, then we have another free bundle for you! While the icons are 8, they come in 4 different file formats and can be accessed as vector or raster files, depending on your needs.

• Icons Included: 8
• Style: 3D, Cartoon
• File Formats: AI, EPS, PDF, PNG

22. School Presentation Icons Pack

A collection of 16 free circular icons with drop shadow effects and lots of bright colors to attract attention! The illustrations can cover many school subjects and can perfectly fit educational presentations with their exquisite style!

23. 25 Education Outline Icons Set

On the contrary, the 25 outline educational icons are much simpler in terms of design, but this is where they shine the most. On top of that, each illustration has a text label below which makes the icons easy to guess.

Sales and marketing presentations are a great way to pitch to potential customers and drive success for your company, so any design that can grab attention, is more than welcome. In this section, we’ve selected some of the best marketing icon sets.

24. Free Income and Promotion Icon Set

If you’re looking for some beautiful icons for your marketing presentation, this set can provide you with just that! On top of that, the vector icon set uses modern gradients, so your icons won’t look outdated, and you can create a better experience for current and potential customers.

• Icons Included: 50
• Style: Linear, Gradient
• License: Free for Personal and Commercial use (Attribution is required)

25. Free Data Analytics Flat Style Icons Set

If you’re looking for modern and popular marketing illustrations, this data analytics presentation set is the one for you. What you’ll find in the file are 12 amazing vector designs with different charts and people working on them.

• Style: Flat style

26. Free Digital Marketing Icons Set

If you’re looking for free illustrations to boost your marketing presentations, this vector set of 12 graphics will perfectly suit your needs. You can find everything – from SEO icons, to labels, charts, targets, and even loudspeakers and playback buttons to bolster your slide designs.

27. Free Colorful Marketing Icons Pack

In case you would rather focus on simplicity and original concepts, then the filled outline marketing icons are the best pick. Within the pack of 25 vectors, you will find a concept map, charts, and other marketing tools that you can utilize in your presentations.

• Style: Filled, Outline
• File Formats: SVG, PNG

28. Free 3D Presents Icons Set

If you need free present icons, GraphicMama is at your disposal with 12 3D gift icons that come in 4 different file formats and can be applied directly to your presentations or further edited in any graphic design software. All designs are free for personal and commercial use.

More icons for presentations

In case you’re looking for some cool icons without any particular goal, or you just want to impress your audience with something more, maybe these suggestions might work well with you. Let’s find out what ends our list.

29. 28 Free Cute Icons

You can find 28 free hand-drawn trendy icons that you can apply to your presentation designs. Regardless of your intention and presentation, these icons can fit any need. Among the freebies, you can find emojis, charts, apples, etc.

• Icons Included: 28 Free Graphics
• Style: Hand-drawn

30. 30 Free Cartoon Arrow Icons

Are you looking for a fancy arrow for your presentation? Maybe you can consider GraphicMama’s arrow bundle, where you can find not 1 but 30 buzzing cartoon arrows that you can apply to your slides. And who would suppose that arrow clipart could drag so much attention?

• Icons Included: 30 Free Graphics

31. 18 Free Cartoon Hand Icons

If you need cartoon hands in your presentation designs, you can find 18 free cartoon hand icons that you can apply to your presentation slides. Among the designs, you will find “thumbs up,” “okay,” “the sign of the horns,” and other hand gestures that can set the mood of your presentation.

• Icons Included:   18 Free Graphics
• Style: Cartoon

32. Free Social Media and Contact Icons

Looking for social media icons? Great! In this free collection of 70 social media icons, you will find a combination of colorful and black-and-white icons, depending on your presentation goals. For each social media icon, you’ll get 4 unique versions, plus a variety of contact icons.

• Icons Included:  70
• Style: Material, Dual-Color

Final Words

It’s easy to go one small step further and make your presentations even more visually appealing with the use of the right icons. We hope you found the perfect free icon sets for your next project.

In the meantime, why not take a look at the related articles to get some more inspiration or grab a couple of freebies:

• Best Free Icon Packs in 2022: 30 Excellent Icon Sets For Every Project
• The Best Free PowerPoint Templates to Download in 2022
• How to Insert GIFs into PowerPoint: The Quick Step-by-Step Guide

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When you are preparing slides for your presentation, the best way you can create interest among your audience is by using some expressive icons. Here, we can help you with our free PowerPoint icons which are free to download and use. All our icons are easily editable and fully customizable. You can easily change the size, color even shapes as well. With the template file, you will get both PNG and PPT file formats. So, explore our icons library and use them creatively in your presentations or documents for free.

Free Business Icons PowerPoint Pack 02 (Editable 20 Icons Set)

This business icons pack includes a set of different line icons that are easily editable and you can change the size and color in any MS Office application.

With this pack, you will get 20 different line icons that include a clock, calendar, documents, server, dollar sign, power button, idea bulb, etc. To get more details and to download it for free, click on the Learn More button.

Free Business Icons PowerPoint Pack 01 (Editable 20 Icons Set)

This is our first icons pack that comes with 20 different business-related icons that you can use in your PowerPoint presentations or Word documents.

It includes icons for presentation, email, targets, location signs, contacts, customer service, devices, etc. With the template file, you will have a PPT file where you can easily customize the icons and use them in your way.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Let’s get the answer to your most-asked questions and discuss the details of our free PowerPoint icons.

Why you should use our icons?

We have a huge collection of professionally designed icons that give you the access to edit or customize in your desired way. That means one can easily change the size or color of our icons and then export or save them as a PNG format. The best thing is that here in PowerPoint School, you are getting that much power for free of any cost. So, we are providing the best value without charging our users.

Are these PowerPoint icons free to download?

Yes! All our icons are free for personal and commercial use. Though there are some restrictions, you can not redistribute or sell our templates to anywhere & anyone. However, you may give us a credit, though it is not mandatory.

How to edit or customize these icons?

The editing process is very simple. You need no expertise in any particular application. Just open the template file and select the icon that you need. Then, from shape fill, simply you can change the color or hold Ctrl+Shift & drag the anchor point to resize the icon (depending on your needs). That’s how easy it is!

Do we provide transparent PNG icons?

Yes! you will get PNG icons with a transparent background. However, you can always export your own PNG icons from our template file as well.

Where you can use these icons?

You can use our icons anywhere you want. As we provide the core template file, it is easy to edit and customize the icons in your desired format. So, you can use our icons in presentations, documents, or reports even as a web element as well. It will be perfectly compatible with any software or applications that you use.

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We are building a huge collection of fully animated icons library (comes with GIFs, and MP4s) that we will launch soon. So, subscribe to our weekly newsletters to get the updates.

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Yes, we have a lot of different types of PowerPoint templates such as presentation slides , resume templates , PowerPoint animations , and country maps . We also have a collection of  PowerPoint premium templates  that you will love to use in your presentations.

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Free Presentation Icons PowerPoint Template

Boring presentations should be a thing of the past. Nobody ever wants to sit in front of a mind-numbing, boring presentation. I know I don’t. The good news is there are so many ways you can transform a sleep-inducing presentation into something that will absolutely blow your audience away. You can use graphics, videos, and other graphic elements like icons to spice up your presentations.

Don’t worry if you don’t know anything about icons. I’ll show you where you can download the best free presentation icons for PowerPoint later on. For now, let me show you why icons are so powerful in presentations.

Why Use Icons For Your PowerPoint Presentation?

Icons are here to stay. They’re not going anywhere. In fact, icon use has been on the rise not just in presentations, but also on websites, mobile apps, flyers, leaflets, etc. If you don’t believe me, then let me illustrate the difference between a slide without icons and a slide that uses icons. Check out the two images below and decide which of these two slides look better:

Slide 1 (no icons):

Slide 2 (with icons):

Would you say Slide 1 looks better? You’re most probably shaking your head “no.” When compared with Slide 2, Slide 1 seems too basic and far too dull. The icons on Slide 2 make the text stand out; in fact, they help support the text. I think Slide 2 looks easier on the eyes too.

So, here are some of the top benefits of using icons in presentations:

• Icons help you save a lot of time creating slides

Instead of formatting your slides the traditional way, that is, by using bullet points (or worse, typing out entire paragraphs), you can simply insert icons on your slide. You don’t need to worry about typing out lengthy texts on your slides, and then worrying about the grammar and making it look good to your audience.

You simply need to locate the right icons for your text. If you’ve already downloaded icons to your computer, simply hit the insert button on PowerPoint and insert your selected icon. Move it around the slide until you find the right spot, add some text if you need to, and voila! You’ll have your slides ready in just a few seconds!

• Icons are easily understood by your audience

Many icons are universally recognized, hence, you don’t need to include any explanations for most of them. Of course, if you plan on explaining any of the icons verbally, that’s also fine. You’re pretty much free to say anything you want to your audience, it’s just that slide design is an entirely different thing. You want your audience to pay attention to what you’re saying, you don’t want them to read your slides!

With icons, your audience only needs to look at them on your slide and they’d usually know instantly what the icons stand for. This prevents them from spending too much time reading your slides. Instead, it allows them to focus their entire attention on your speech and your presentation’s message.

• Icons make your slides look ‘cleaner’

White space (or negative space) is important in any aspect of design, whether it be presentation design, website design, graphic design, etc. White space is the space between elements. The more space you have between elements, the better and easier it is for your audience to process the information you’re presenting on the screen.

When you use icons on your presentation slides, you’re essentially substituting all the space that several lines of text would have taken up with just a single icon. You don’t want too many things going on in your slides – that will be too distracting and will drive your audience’s attention away from your presentation.

The fact of the matter is you don’t want your audience playing on their phones instead of listening to your presentation! So, give them the incentive to do so – make sure your slides are easy on the eyes. Use icons wherever possible and declutter your slides.

• Icons and graphics are more memorable than plain text

I bet you already know this for a fact. Icons, especially well-designed ones, are bound to capture your audience’s attention. I’m sure you’d feel absolutely ecstatic if people came up to you after your presentation and told you how awesome your icons and graphics were!

Look at it this way: when you use icons properly, they’ll help drive your presentation message home. And that’s basically what every presenter wants to achieve – to have their message received and understood by their audience.

Top 5 Places To Download Free Icons PowerPoint Templates For Your Next Presentation

Downloading the right icons can mean the difference between your presentation’s success or failure. But where exactly can you download the best icons on the web? Well, there are quite a number of good places where you can download high-quality (and free!) icons. Here are some of the top ones:

1. PowerPoint itself

Surprised? You shouldn’t be! At least not anymore. Not too long ago, inserting icons meant downloading them from third party sites or even creating them from scratch! The good news is PowerPoint has finally caught up with the present and met their massive user base’s demand for easier icon insertion. The bad news? Not everyone who’s installed PowerPoint on their computers has access to the built-in icon search feature. Only Office 365 subscribers with the latest version of the software can take advantage of this new feature.

If you have an Office 365 subscription, try the steps below:

Click Insert > Icons . The Icons sidebar will appear on your screen (you need to be connected to the Internet). You’ll then be presented with hundreds of icons in 26 categories. Here’s a screenshot:

Once you’ve selected an icon(s) you want to use, just click it and hit the Insert button. The Design Ideas tab will then appear next to the Icons tab in the sidebar.

You can use any of the preformatted design ideas, or you can edit your icons manually. Just click on the icon and the Graphic Format tab will show up on the ribbon.

As you can see in the screenshot above, you have a lot of different options to customize your icon. If you want to edit specific components or elements that make up your icon, you’d need to hit the Convert to Shape button (or right-click to see this option). You’ll get an Alert message like below:

Hit ‘ Yes.’ You’ll then be able to ‘ Ungroup’ the various elements or shapes that make up your icon by right-clicking the icon itself.

Here’s what my icon looked like after I ungrouped it and moved some elements around:

As you can see, inserting icons on PowerPoint can’t get any easier than this. So, if you’re someone who uses icons a lot, then you may want to shell out some cash for an Office 365 subscription. If not, don’t worry, the next couple of websites below are going to help you out a ton with free PowerPoint icons and graphics.

2. Templates by 24Slides

Our professional in-house designers have created hundreds of free icons which you can use alongside our collection of free PowerPoint templates . From free business icons for PowerPoint to science icons – and everything in between – we’ve got you covered. Here’s a complete list of our most popular free presentation icons you can download today:

• Basic Icons PowerPoint Template

In this 3-slide PowerPoint template, you’ll have a select number of icon designs to choose from. These icons work particularly great for presentations that require the use of charts, show important messages or definitions. Or if you just want a simple PowerPoint person icon, you can also download this template. Additionally, you can also use these icons if you’re using a menu or navigation system for your slides.

• Financial Icons PowerPoint Template

Presenting financial data doesn’t have to be difficult and complicated anymore. You don’t need to bore your audience with plenty of texts and numbers. Most of them can easily be replaced with any of the icons included in this free 3-slide icon template pack. You can use these to present your financial reports, accounting reports, and other financial transactions.

• Presentation Data Icons Template Pack

Presentations are all about data – whether you’re presenting in front of an academic or business crowd, you’ll find something you can use in our data PowerPoint icons pack. Numerical or graphical data are best headlined by fun icons like you see in this template. It offsets the mind-numbing boringness of traditional data presentation styles and provides a burst of color and pizzazz that will surely impress (or at least awaken) your audience.

• Calendar Icons Template Pack

If you need to present your project milestones or share some very important dates with your audience, then you can’t go wrong with the icons in this 9-slide template pack. Whether you need to present individual, weekly or monthly dates, this template pack won’t disappoint you. The icons are super easy to edit so if you need to change the month or the date to something else, you can quickly do so.

The good news is this template pack isn’t just all about the icons. If you need to get something done by a certain date, you can use the to-do list template slide. Or if you need to add some text descriptions to a certain date or month, you can use one of the included slides for this very purpose. So, all you need to do is basically swap out the ‘Lorem ipsum’ text with your own, and you’re all set!

• Strategy Presentation Icons Template Pack

There’s a reason why you need a strategy to succeed in whatever it is you set out to do. Without the right strategy, you could very well be wasting your time. And that’s exactly what’s going to happen if you don’t make use of the right icons to present your strategy to potential investors, management, board of directors, CEOs, and similar audience members.

If your strategy isn’t presented in an easy to understand manner, then you may lose your only chance to persuade your audience to follow your call to action (that is, approve or suggest improvements to your strategy). Maximize your chances of approval by using the right icons that will help convince the people who’ve got the final say in your strategy’s sound implementation and eventual success.

• Corporate Color Icon Template Pack

Some people may perceive corporate presentation slides as bullet point-filled with very little white space. Some may even think that corporate presentations needs to be in either Times New Roman or Arial font. Not that there’s anything wrong with these fonts – it’s just that there are many new and exciting fonts to choose from nowadays.

In other words, some people think corporate presentations are the exact opposite of fun presentations. But it doesn’t have to be. More and more corporate presenters are now going for modern looking presentations and leaving behind the old way of presenting yawn-inducing slides (check out examples of our top corporate clients who’ve embraced this new corporate presentation culture)!

So, don’t get left behind – download this free icon template pack and be on your way to creating fun and color-filled corporate-themed slides!

• General PowerPoint Icons Template Pack

If none of the other icons template packs I’ve listed so far fit your needs, then you should check out this general PPT icons template pack. These icons work great for many different types of presentations. For example, if you’re presenting new ideas to your audience, you can make use of the human light bulb icon. If you want to show some charts, trends, or even financial data, you can choose from several suitable icons in this template pack.

• Science Icon Template Pack

You probably think you’ve only got a few choices when it comes to choosing the right icons for your Science presentation. Fortunately for you, our designers have made it their mission to make PowerPoint users’ lives easier. These fun icons will certainly breathe new life into your Science slides, so be ready to blow your audience (and your professor) away with the icons included in this 3-slide template pack!

3. Material Icons

If you’re a fan of material design , then you need to check out this website. They feature thousands of free icons in this particular design language. You can choose from various themes – filled, outlined, rounded, two-tone, and sharp. When downloading, you can choose to download in either SVG or PNG format. For best results, I recommend choosing SVG over PNG because you can easily scale your icon without degrading its quality (that is, no pixelation).

4. Flaticon

With more than a million vector icons, Flaticon is one of the biggest icon repositories on the Internet. Of course, if you want to access everything, you’d need to sign up for a premium subscription. For most people, however, a free membership would suffice. You still get access to thousands of free icons. Just remember, however, you’d need to attribute the author if you opt to remain a free member.

The good news is with Flaticon, you can download files in a variety of formats like PNG, SVG, EPS, PSD, etc. For best results, however, you need to download in vector icon format like SVG. You can then drag the icons you want to use to your slides, and then edit these as you see fit. You can resize, rotate, change the color, add effects, ungroup elements, and so much more . Note, however, that for this particular feature to work you need to have an Office 365 subscription.

5. The Noun Project

Another excellent site where you can download over a million free icons is the Noun Project. You simply sign up for a free account to start downloading icons. What’s really cool about this site is you can customize your icons before you download them. You can add a shape to your icon, you can change the background color, you can even change the icon color itself! Just take note, however, if you’re a free user, you will need to attribute the author.

If you don’t want to bother with attribution because it slows down your productivity or whatever your reasons may be, then make sure you sign up for the premium ‘NounPro’ membership. With a premium subscription, you’ll also get the added benefit of being able to access various apps for that super easy drag and drop functionality from Noun Project to your presentation slides (or any other graphics project).

Making Your Own Icons On PowerPoint

It may surprise you to know that PowerPoint is a powerful stand-alone graphics editor. So powerful in fact that you can easily edit all sorts of graphics yourself. Sure, it’s no champ like Photoshop, but for the most part, creating icons is a fairly straightforward process. You can either:

• edit existing PowerPoint vector icons by ungrouping the elements and then adding or merging different shapes, or
• create icons from scratch.

Here’s a short video to give you an idea on how you can make your own icons in PowerPoint:

Tips To Make The Most Of Your Free Presentation Icons

Now that you know where to find the top free icons on the web, it’s time to show you how you can make the most of these icons. You can’t just download 10 or so icons from various sites and then paste them all together on a single slide (sort of like a mishmash of different icons). If you want a clean and professional-looking presentation, check out the tips below:

• Use the right kind of icons

There are literally millions of icons you can choose from. Many of them are quite easy to understand, but some may require some analysis. You don’t want to confuse your audience, so make sure you use icons that accurately represent the point(s) you’re trying to make in your presentation. For example, if you’re talking about a particular book, then you may want to use a simple book icon instead of going for something a bit more complicated and hard to understand.

• Stick to a single icon style

There are generally 3 different styles of icons you can choose from – outline, single-color filled and color-filled. No matter which style you go for, it’s important to stick to that particular style. It’s not a good idea to mix and match different styles because your presentation design is going to look messy with no cohesiveness at all.

If you’re using a color-filled icon, then it’s important to use the same colors throughout your presentation. You don’t want to use red icons on one slide and then green ones on the next slide. You should also pay attention to your overall color theme and make sure your icon choices don’t clash with your color theme.

Remember, when it comes to design, less is often more. So, keep it simple and don’t overthink your icon styles!

• Not all icons will look good in presentations

Icons are used everywhere – in websites, in mobile applications, in presentation slides, etc. You see them everywhere. But it doesn’t mean that icons that look great on one platform are going to look awesome in all other platforms, too. Take, for example, the icons on your smartphone. Some of you may like seeing a variety of icons on your phone’s screen – it makes your phone look fun and exciting. However, if you try doing the same thing on your presentation slides, you’re only going to end up giving everyone in your audience a huge headache! So, in a nutshell, colorful 3D icons may look great on your phone, but it’s going to look horrible on your presentation, especially if it goes against your presentation’s overall design! Make sure you keep this in mind when choosing icons.

Presentation icons PowerPoint templates are here to stay

Icons aren’t going anywhere. If you’ve got a presentation coming up, then you better think of a way you can use icons to your advantage. Don’t settle for mediocrity. Let your creativity shine through. Choose the right icons to help you get your message to your audience.

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What are PowerPoint icons?

Icons and pictograms are simplified, visual representations of a specific object or situation. You can find many examples of these symbols in everyday life. As traffic signs, they tell us which road may be used and how. Pictograms found on cleaning agents or other chemical substances, tell us what is flammable, corrosive or otherwise hazardous. And in public places, pictograms often tell us where we can find something and where we can do certain things: arrows point the way, a man, woman or wheelchair identify different public restrooms and a crossed-out cigarette tells us that smoking is prohibited.

All these symbols have one thing in common: they are universally understood and make a clear, strong statement. This efficient form of communication is not only extremely useful in everyday life, but also lends itself to situations where conveying information clearly and effectively is essential: in PowerPoint presentations.

An extensive selection of icons and pictograms for your PowerPoint presentations

Compared to clip art or 3D figures, icons look more professional. That's why they have become a standard in modern corporate presentations. PowerPoint pictograms are versatile – our selection includes a wide range of useful PowerPoint icons for various topics.

They are vector graphics that, unlike other file types, can be easily customized and colored. They can be easily scaled in Microsoft PowerPoint without compromising quality.

Our product range includes hundreds of PowerPoint icons for various topics, such as business, science, medicine and social media. Their uniform style guarantees a consistent design in your presentation. And you don’t have to worry about licenses or usage rights; you can use them freely in your PowerPoint presentations and any other Microsoft Office program.

Advantages of PowerPoint icons and pictograms

Many presentations get weighed down with too much text. Visual elements, such as images and graphics, help break up and reduce text. But finding graphics that have the right symbolic content, are cohesive and can be easily integrated into a presentation is not always easy.

Our range of icons and pictograms provide the ideal solution. They are streamlined, coordinated and use clear symbolism. They allow you to reduce text and liven up your PowerPoint slides with simple, yet powerful visuals.

Image vs. text: why visual design is so important

Why should we use visuals in PowerPoint presentations? What's wrong with a lot of text on slides? Indeed, both text and images are visual stimuli but they require our brains to work differently. Written letters are, in principle, nothing more than symbols strung together to form words and sentences. For the brain, assembling and decoding the information they contain means work. Far more work than looking at a picture – which can be intuitively understood, regardless of language, in a fraction of a second.

Using images and symbols makes a presentation both easier to understand and more enjoyable to look at.

Icon vs. clip art: a small but key difference

The terms clip art and icon are often used synonymously. Understandably so – they are similar in terms of their use and purpose, making it hard to distinguish between the two. However, there is a fundamental difference between the two.

Clip art images are a lot like comics and usually provide more entertainment value than substance. On the other hand, icons are sedate and smartly designed, and communicate a clear message.

But the differences don’t stop there. Clip art is typically a bitmap graphic. They lose quality when they’re scaled and they become pixelated and blurred. The icons and pictograms in our range are vector graphics that can be scaled without any loss of quality. Icons in Microsoft PowerPoint are, in a sense, the professional alternative to clip art.

The best way to use icons in PowerPoint

One big advantage of Microsoft PowerPoint icons is that they are easy to understand and uncomplicated to use. So, there aren’t many rules to follow here.

But to give a presentation a clean and cohesive design, the PowerPoint icons need to complement each other and be as uniform as possible. We recommend using a high-quality set of matching icons instead of combining icons from different sources. This also prevents problems with licenses and poor graphic quality.

In addition, PowerPoint icons used in a presentation should support the topic, be clear, unambiguous and easy to understand.

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