Free Windows Phone 8 Icons Download

Do you know Windows Phone SDK 8.0 provides Windows Phone 8 icons for white and dark background for developers to use in their Windows Phone 8 app development projects in the following default SDK installation folder?
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.0\Icons
Before you use icons in your Windows Phone 8 app projects, you can read the guide and best practices published by Microsoft at MSDN

Unfortunately these free icons for Windows Phone 8 are not enough in many cases for developers to use in their WP8 apps. Just like me you can Google or Bing the web for free Windows Phone 8 icons. I wanted to share with you the Windows Phone icon packs I found on the web.

Windows Phone 8 Application Bar Icons

A good list of Windows Phone 8 icons for app developers to use in their Windows Phone 8 app development projects is provided by Pedro Lamas on his personal web site. You can download view the icons for Windows Phone 8 on his page and download icons for free for professional use. Thanks to Perdo for his help with 99 free icons for Windows Phone application bar.

Icon pack for Windows Phone 8 application bar available for free download

Windows RT and Windows Phone 8 Icons

An other must icon pack for Windows Phone 8 app development projects is the Austin Andrews's (aka Templarian) Windows RT and Windows Phone icons at GitHub

Metro Icon Editor Tool for Windows Phone 8 Icons

If you are looking for a free tool that you can customize icons easily, I can suggest you to use Metro Studio 2 with 1700 metro-style icons included in the tool download. You can easily change properties and customize existing icons like resizing, changing icon color and background color, applying transparent background, etc.

Free Windows Phone 8 Icons Downloads

An other free downloadable Windows Phone 8 icons package is from Icons8 with including more than a thousand icons.