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PowerPoint icons are very important and they can increase engagement and enhance visual impression. Check out our fully customizable icons library and get 1500+ free icons (including business icons, e-commerce icons, education icons, medical icons, science and tech icons, etc.). With each icon template, you will get a PPT file as well as PNG format icons . These icons are compatible with all MS Office Applications, Google Slides, Keynote, and Adobe Applications. So, do not wait! Get the icon that you need.

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PowerPoint Icons, Pictograms and Symbols

Here you’ll find a wide selection of icons for your Business PowerPoint presentation. Icons and pictograms are universally recognizable and can reinforce text or replace it altogether. PowerPoint icons help present complex facts simply and clearly. They help audiences intuitively understand connections and processes without the need for a lot of text. This effective way of presenting information is a great way for overcoming language barriers.

Our selection of PowerPoint pictograms and icons are vector graphics that can be scaled to any size without loss of quality. Their  streamlined aesthetics and clean design will add visual appeal to any presentation. They can be used in charts and infographics to clearly visualize and communicate facts and figures.

PowerPoint Icon Templates:

300 business icons infographics powerpoint template.

Choose out of over 300 different icons to create professional infographics and PowerPoint presentations.

Digital Business & IT – Icon Collection PowerPoint Template

A comprehensive icon collection for digital business and IT topics: High-quality line icons for software development, SEO/online marketing, network/process/service, data management, hardware/devices and cybersecurity.

EU GDPR – Icons & Seals PowerPoint Template

Collection of GDPR seals and icons with EU motifs

Isometric Icons PowerPoint Template

Create modern and exciting presentation designs with isometric icons for PowerPoint.

Line Icons - Business PowerPoint Template

Over 360 different line icons to create professional infographics and presentations in PowerPoint.

240 Line Icons - Medicine & Science PowerPoint Template

Set of scientific/medical icons with motifs like brain, telescope, heart, test tube, infant, Erlenmeyer flask, etc.

E-Mobility Line Icons PowerPoint Template

Comprehensive set of e-mobility icons and infographics in line design

Line Icons Artificial Intelligence / Robotics PowerPoint Template

Icons covering topics such as robotics, machine learning, the Internet of Things, digital networking, etc.

Flat Design - Icons Collection PowerPoint Template

Icons for business, communication, transport, finance, nature, and more in modern flat design 2.0.

Business Icons PowerPoint Template

Over 400 different icons to create professional infographics and presentations in PowerPoint.

Flat Design - Social Media PowerPoint Template

Present social media marketing strategies for the monitoring of B2B or B2C environment – with specific icons.

World Flag Toolbox PowerPoint Template

Toolbox with 207 country flags in five different designs

Icons Collection PowerPoint Template

1,700 icons on topics such as finance, energy, travel, weather, medicine, sports, and more

Human Resource Management Icons PowerPoint Template

Icons to create presentations showing employees, team members and corporate management.

PowerPoint Calendar Icons PowerPoint Template

More than 40 icons for presenting announcements, important appointments and deadlines.

Computer Network Icons PowerPoint Template

Conceptual computer network icons and symbols; display functions and usability.

Warning Signs PowerPoint Template

Present safety procedures & evacuation plans - includes warning signs (e.g. flammable, gas, poison, radioactivity etc.).

Social-Media Keyboard PowerPoint Template

Address your target grp. B2B or B2C with social media strategies - incl. popular media icons in numerous designs.

Stamps and Seals PowerPoint Template

Many stamp and seal graphics to create company logos and various symbols in a stamp design.

Buttons and Labels PowerPoint Template

Buttons, labels, sticky notes, reminders in various layouts and arrangements.

Financial Trading Icons 3D PowerPoint Template

Utilize significant financial trade symbols on designed layouts (e.g. barrel of oil, stack of coins, an ATM machine etc.).

Social Media Templates PowerPoint Template

Describe social media marketing plan for each individual network, use icons at your disposal.

Traffic Signs PowerPoint Template

Show goal destinations with traffic signs (incl. German and EU signs and a small toolbox with American road signs).

Highway Signs PowerPoint Template

Use conventional & imaginable highway signs (e.g. “strategy,” “future next exit” and many more editable).

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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The Best Free Presentation Icons For Your Project

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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:

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PowerPoint Icons, Logos and Symbols – Free Download

Are you looking for free PowerPoint Icons, Logos, and Symbols for your next presentation? Stop right there. We’ve compiled a list of the top-notch icon packs for your slides, all available for free download and use.

PowerPoint is the best tool for professionals, educators, and students When creating engaging and impactful presentations. Its capabilities and user-friendly interface make it a powerful tool for conveying information, ideas, and stories. 

When making a presentation using MS PowerPoint, it’s excellent to use icons, logos, and symbols. It enhances the visual appeal and clarity of your PowerPoint presentations. These are like little images that help make your presentation look better. 

These graphic elements also help you communicate your message effectively and add a professional touch to your slides. 

In this article, we will explore the best PowerPoint icon packs, logos, and symbols and provide you with resources for free downloads to enhance your presentation slides.

Why Use Icons, Logos, and Symbols?

Visual elements are essential in effective presentations. While words and spoken language remain necessary, including visuals boosts the ability to convey information and make a lasting impression. Icons and symbols are like little images that make your slides look nice.

Here’s why they are fantastic:

• Easy to Understand : Icons and logos can easily show ideas and things. For example, a lightbulb can mean “idea,” a checkmark can say “done,” and a magnifying glass icon can represent “search.”
• Help You Find Your Way : Logos and symbols can be like signposts in your presentation. They help the audience to focus on what’s important and where to look. For Example, When you use a “back” arrow symbol, it’s clear to your audience that you’re returning to a previous slide.
• Make Important Stuff Stand Out : Icons can help you show what’s essential. You put them where you want people to look.
• Show Your Brand : If you have a unique logo for your group or company, it’s good to put it in your presentation. This way, people know it’s from you. This is especially important in business and marketing presentations.

Where to Find PowerPoint Icons for Free

We’ve demonstrated the importance of icons, logos, and symbols. You might wonder where to find these icons, logos, and symbols for your PowerPoint presentation slides. However, numerous resources are available that provide free downloads of these elements.  

We have created a list of the best free PowerPoint icon packs. You can download and use it in your presentation for free. Here we go:

LineIcons is the first on this list of  free PowerPoint icons.  It is the best option for free icons for your next presentation for multiple reasons. 

It provides handcrafted UI icons for all modern user interfaces of web, mobile, and desktop app design and development projects. You can easily find the icons you need for the presentation. You can even change them to fit your style. 

It has over 8,400 icons with different variations. Whether you’re a professional or a student or want to make your PPT look better, LineIcons has icons for you.

You can easily convey ideas, concepts, and data, making your presentations more engaging and informative. In short, LineIcons is one of the best places to find icons online, and they’re easy to use in your PowerPoint presentations.

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Microsoft PowerPoint icons

It has a broad category of icons that align with Microsoft’s design standards, making your presentations not only visually appealing but also a consistent look. 

Access Now using the “ insert ” button for a trusted and authoritative source of icons to enhance your PowerPoint slides.

Streamline 3.0

Streamline 3.0 is a powerful icon collection tailored for PowerPoint presentations. With an extensive collection of over 12,609 free icons and 24 distinct free icon sets, it offers you a combination of visual resources to boost your slides. These icons are well crafted, providing a perfect balance between visual appeal and functionality.

Streamline 3.0 is designed to help you create engaging slideshows, saving you time and effort. It has icons for all needs, whether you’re preparing business PowerPoint presentations, educational PowerPoint presentations, or creative presentations.

Download Now to enhance your PowerPoint presentation slides.

Boxicons  –  Free PowerPoint Icons

Boxicons is a simple open-source icon carefully crafted for designers & developers. It is also a good resource for PowerPoint icons. It has a good collection of free icons for presentation. The icon pack covers many topics, making it an excellent fit for your PowerPoint slides.

Boxicons will enhance the visual appeal of your PowerPoint presentations and make them more engaging and informative. Download now to boost the impact of your PowerPoint PPT.

Feather Icons

Feather Icons is an elegant set of icons designed to enhance the visual appeal of PowerPoint presentations and add a professional touch. 

It has 287 icons divided into eight categories, and these icons are absolutely free. By offering different types, they make it easy for you to find the ones that are the most relevant to your slides. 

So, you can download the icon pack and use these  free icons  to enhance your PPT. 

LinearIcons –  Free PowerPoint Icons

LinearIcons offers a free collection of PowerPoint icons to streamline your presentation design. It has 170 free icons covering different categories. These icons are clean, minimalistic, and highly functional, making them ideal for conveying complex ideas and data clearly and concisely.

Download Now to create a minimalistic PowerPoint slide.

FontAwesome

FontAwesome has a comprehensive collection of icons to enhance the visual appeal and clarity of PowerPoint presentations.

It is one of the most popular icon font packs available. FontAwesome covers a wide range of categories, allowing you to find the perfect icons for your content.

It has both free and premium versions, and the free version has more than enough icons for most presentations. Download Now to make your presentations awesome with FontAwesome.

Material Icons

Material Icons provide a modern and sleek set of icons to elevate the visual quality of your PowerPoint slides. These icons follow the Material Design principles, ensuring a consistent and appealing visual style for your presentations.

For those of you who don’t know, Material Icons is a popular icon pack gle designs, and i. Download your PowerPoint now for a worldly look.

Ionicons –  Free PowerPoint Icons

Ionicons offers a free collection of PowerPoint icons designed to make your presentations more engaging and visually appealing. These versatile icons cover many topics, allowing you to find suitable icons for your content.

It is a handcrafted open-source icon pack designed using a simple and minimalist approach, making it ideal for minimalistic PowerPoint presentations. Download Now to enhance the effect of your PPT.

Zondicons is a unique collection of PowerPoint icons that can add creativity and uniqueness to your presentations. These icons have a different style and character, making them ideal for adding qualities and originality to your slides.

It is a minimalist icon font pack with a variety of cool icons in different categories, ideal for enhancing your presentations. The icons are available for free; you can use them for personal and commercial purposes. Download now to enhance your PowerPoint PPT with creativity and uniqueness.

IconFinder –  Free PowerPoint Icons

IconFinder is a valuable resource for discovering and downloading free PowerPoint icons to improve your presentations. It offers a diverse collection of free icons, making it easy to find the correct graphic elements for your slides.

Download Now to explore various heroes and enhance your PPT.

Tips for Using Icons, Logos, and Symbols in PowerPoint

While adding icons, logos, and symbols to your PowerPoint presentations can be a game-changer, it’s essential to use them effectively and judiciously. Here are some necessary tips to maximize the impact of these graphic elements:

• Maintain Visual Consistency: Choose icons and symbols that align with your presentation’s theme and style. Consistency in using these elements creates a cohesive and professional look throughout your slides. If your presentation has a specific color scheme or design aesthetic, ensure your icons match it.
• Keep It Simple: Make sure your slides have enough icons or symbols. It’s crucial to use them appropriately to maintain clarity and prevent overcrowding with too many icons and logos.  Use icons to highlight key points or to break up text, making your presentation more visually appealing and more accessible to follow.
• Size and Placement: Pay attention to the size and placement of icons. Icons should be big enough to be seen clearly but not so big that they take over your slide. Proper order is essential, as heroes can serve as visual alerts. They should guide the viewer’s eye and help them navigate the content.
• Use Color Wisely: Icons and symbols can be used in color or grayscale. Select colors that complement your presentation’s color scheme and help convey the right message. Avoid using colors that clash with your overall design. The goal is to enhance your slides, not to distract from the content.
• Test for Clarity: Before finalizing your presentation, preview it and ensure that icons and symbols are easily recognizable and don’t create confusion. If any icon needs to clearly convey its intended message or purpose, consider changing it or seek feedback from colleagues or peers.

In conclusion, PowerPoint icons, logos, and symbols are powerful tools for enhancing your presentations. They assist in conveying complex ideas, organizing content, and supporting branding. With lots of free resources, you can easily find and integrate these elements into your slides.

Use them wisely to keep your presentation neat and understandable and engage your audience effectively. Boost your presentations and make a long-lasting impact with the power of visual communication via icons, logos, and symbols.

Icons, logos, and symbols are great for making your PowerPoint presentations better, So go ahead and explore the resources. 🚀

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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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How many times have you faced a presentation with too much text in it?

Have you ever wondered how to squeeze all that important information into the presentation , in a way that ensures the slides are comprehensible?

I can answer to this questions, introducing the ultimate guide to PowerPoint icons for presentations .

You can’t summarize more than what you have already done, because otherwise it wouldn’t be readable.  

In some other cases, your boss wants as much text as possible on the slides . He probably doesn’t know his speech and he doesn’t think it is worthwhile to rehearse before the presentation . He wants to take part in the “ shared reading session ” with the audience , instead of offering a presentation .

This might give him the feeling of saving time, it dramatically impacts the quality of his communication, most likely causing the audience to fall asleep within the first 5 minutes.

Every presentation is a dialogue with your audience.

As a dialogue among people, you must be the focus of their attention during the whole speech, not your slides !

If you fill your slides with text, your audience will end up reading the slides and not paying attention to you.

We use slides because they boost our communication and help our audience remember what we say.

People remember longer when they visualize (not read) information.

Remember to Make It Visual if you want your audience to remember the information about your company’s products or services.

Infographics work so well because using text and images together helps people to retain the information. Remember, if it’s just words, people will only remember 10% of the information they read. But if you combine the text with a relevant image, they are likely remembering 65% of the information! While others may choose to work harder by crafting a perfectly written article or advertisement, it would be a smarter choice to use text and relevant images together. Randy Krum, author of the book “Cool Infographics”

Why Use PowerPoint Icons?

One of the most powerful tools easily accessible today to everybody working with presentations is icons.

Icons, nowadays, are an effective and powerful way to visualize abstract concepts and ideas.

I’m not talking about the ugly and old fashioned clip arts, I’m talking about beautiful PowerPoint icons in a vector format .

Let’s start learning how using PowerPoint icons for presentations .

One of the essential objectives of iconography is to help people absorb, retain and process your message more efficiently. When designed well, using icons enriches minimal content by empowering key points without all of the wordiness. Icons should be used to draw attention to your message and content—not to diminish or supplant it. Assess whether or not an icon would either help or denote the message, and use only with great purpose. Because icons are universal, it allows your audience to identify with that corresponding icon as an aid to represent your message. They are best used to represent a new section, category, sub-categories and various groups. PowerPoint icons come in handy for highlighting new, bold and exciting features within your presentation. Since they have the power to attract attention, they should be used with good intent and placed intelligently. Icons enhance readability within a deck. Lifeless slides could lose a client’s interest or appear boring and not well thought out. This, however, must take into accordance who your audience or client is. Always be aware of who you’re designing for and what their brand is. Icons also provide creativity in your company or product. When used creatively, you want to make sure that every message is conveyed in the right manner. Kaili Miyamoto, Creative Designer at Microsoft

Nevertheless, it still happens that I get clients who forbid designers to use icons because they believe it will turn their presentations into something too childish for their audience .

PowerPoint icons for presentations top expert roundup – Learn from the best!

Beyond my opinion, I selected some of the best Presentation and UX designer gurus and I asked them to contribute to this article and share their opinion about icons.

Let’s take the opportunity to learn from the best professionals in the field of PowerPoint icons for presentations .

PowerPoint icons: Do you often use vector icons for your design?

Yes, I do. Icons are an essential part of my presentation design toolkit. I keep a library of PowerPoint vector icons illustrating common themes we reference often in our presentations. Holly Robinson, Presentation Designer, PepsiCo

Yes, I always use PowerPoint icons for presentations. Erika Montoli, User Experience Designer, Accenture

Yes, daily! I use icons in most of my projects since it is probably the easiest way to add some visual elements to your design, and it works as a great complement to your text. And PowerPoint vector icons should be a given for all designers, since it gives the client the highest quality together with the ability to edit colors, outlines, transparency, etc. Damon Nofar, Presentation Designer & Consultant

Wrapping up

Yeah! Top experts use icons for their designs and they even suggest you to keep a library of the most used icons.

Therefore, I’ll shortly illustrate you how to tap into the biggest repository of icons ever imagined.

PowerPoint icons: For which kind of designs do you think icons are more suited?

Icons work well across many types of design. You seem them everywhere these days; from info-graphics and annual reports, to websites and apps. I feel icons fit quite naturally and beautifully with presentation design to help communicate concepts intuitively. They are especially useful in illustrating key overarching themes in a presentation/report, and giving the audience a visual anchor to follow throughout the story. Holly Robinson, Presentation Designer, PepsiCo

PowerPoint icons for presentations, for website, mobile app, invitation cards, posters. Erika Montoli, User Experience Designer, Accenture

Icons can work in any kind of design or project – there are really no limitations in my opinion. It can make the most complex message understandable, and it can also make the clearest message even more minimal and clean. With that said, icons work good in simplifying concepts and processes. E.g. if you have a flowchart or workflow diagram, PowerPoint vector icons can make it much easier to get an overview and understand the chart much quicker than by just using text. Damon Nofar, Presentation Designer & Consultant

PowerPoint icons for presentations are used in every form of design. Damon suggests icons help you to simplify processes and abstract concepts, as well as Holly, who says that icons improve communication effectiveness.

PowerPoint icons: What are Pros of using icons in your design?

Intuitive communication, consistency and speed. Effective presentation design needs to communicate the core message to the audience quickly and intuitively. Well-chosen, well-designed icons can help telegraph that connection. PowerPoint vector icons can also facilitate a consistent style through a presentation. From a production standpoint, icons offer a lot of design impact for a low time investment. In our world of ever-shorter deadlines, they are a quick design solution that’s relatively easy to source or create. Holly Robinson, Presentation Designer, PepsiCo

Good icons can make the look of a webpage more leasing, reduce the noise of the text and improve the user experience. When done correctly, they communicate the core idea and intent of a product or action, and they bring many nice benefits to user interfaces, such as saving screen real estate and enhancing aesthetic appeal. Other benefits are: 1. Icons can be compact enough to allow display more content on a relatively small space 2. Usually no need to translate icons for international users Erika Montoli, User Experience Designer, Accenture

There are many, to name a few: – Icons are a great support for your content, and sometimes can even replace your content – Icons can help you cut down on text – Icons draw attention Damon Nofar, Presentation Designer & Consultant

Holly suggests that PowerPoint vector icons are a great tool to achieve powerful communication in short matters.

When working with presentations , we always work under pressure, as most speakers tackle it last minute.

So icons could potentially save your life.

Icons are also a useful way to cut down some text from the slides and visualize contents, as per Damon’s reply.

Last but not least, icons speak an international language so they do not require translation efforts, as per Erika’s comment.

PowerPoint icons: What are the Cons/Risks of using icons in your design?

You want to use icons strategically to enhance your communication, but you don’t want to overdo it. Icons are like eye shadow… sometimes less is more. Too many icons in a design project risks creating confusion, rather than building clarity. Another risk is trying to force icons to illustrate overly complex concepts. Icons are, by their nature, simple. A simple icon may not appropriately capture the meaning of a complex concept, while alternatively an overly complex icon defeats its own purpose. PowerPoint vector icons work by simplifying a visual down to basics. However, there may be instances when sacrificing the nuance may work against you. For example, what is an appropriate icon to represent the age group 65+? Eyeglasses? A figure with a cane? Both icons place emphasis on disability and run the risk of offending seniors and perpetuating stereotypes. This is an example where the richer nuances offered by illustration or photography might better serve the communication goals. Holly Robinson, Presentation Designer, PepsiCo

PowerPoint vector icons are graphic symbols that refer to objects or actual actions and are used instead of words because they seem more intuitive. However, the icons are not always the best way to represent the data. They work well only when the relationship between the icon and its meaning is automatic and independent from learning. In other words, it is necessary that the icon evokes its meaning implicitly, without interpretation from the user. For this reason, the most functional icons are those that more concretely represent the object or the action to which they relate. If it uses the natural mapping between the action you can perform, and an icon to represent said action, you will get intuitive icons to minimize the user’s interpretative effort and not force him to learn anything new. An example of a natural mapping applied to the icons is the use of “trash.” In this case, the trash icon is used to indicate the action to delete a file; the metaphor fully performs its task and you understand intuitively what action it may make. On the web, in e-commerce sites, a much-used metaphor is the “shopping basket”: it allows, usually, to immediately understand what is that icon, but to make metaphors work, their meaning must be highly shared. Erika Montoli, User Experience Designer, Accenture

Using too many PowerPoint icons for presentations can work against you and become a distraction. Another risk is that the icon loses its meaning when used without a clear thought behind it. I work with presentations every day, and see abuse of icons daily. People need to think why they are using icons, and decide if it really adds any value to the communication of that message. Using icons just for the sake of it is a big mistake. Damon Nofar, Presentation Designer & Consultant

Holly notices that icons are simple so they are powerful when they need to illustrate simple concepts .

Also, sometimes they can convey the wrong message since they recall stereotypes so they might not always be an alternative to pictures that are clearly richer in details.

Erika and Damon agrees on the fact that the icons need to be intuitive because the audience need to immediately understand it without risking any misinterpretation.

PowerPoint icons: How do icons and labels interact?

Icons and labels work together to reinforce the communication. The icon is the visual cue, and the label literally spells it out for them. I don’t generally recommend using icons on their own, unless their meaning has been clearly established. A visual shortcut that confuses the viewer sabotages the design. The objective is always to help the audience understand, not make them work hard or guess. There are many creative and elegant ways to present an icon and its label. That’s the fun part. Holly Robinson, Presentation Designer, PepsiCo

Text labels are necessary when an understanding of an icon is not based on a previous experience, to communicate the meaning, reduce the ambiguity and improve the user experience. In terms of universal icons such as cart, search, and edit, labels are not necessary. An example of a necessary label icons with conflicting meanings, such as a star/heart. These icons are used for favorite, add to wish list action or rate action. Not only does the precise functionality associated to these icons vary from site to site, but these two icons compete. Erika Montoli, User Experience Designer, Accenture

In my view, the purpose of using an icon is to visualize the text label and make it easier to grasp the message. When the icon and text label are in harmony (complement each other), the communication becomes so much easier to understand and remember. PowerPoint vector icons also work great for creating structure in the text layout. E.g. If you have five bullet points in a slide, these look pretty much the same and have no distinction whatsoever. By combining these text labels with an appropriate icon, you instantly create a structured layout that is easier for the audience to follow. Damon Nofar, Presentation Designer & Consultant

Icons can be used to simplify bullet points, combining text and visuals , as per Damon’s comment.

As per Erika’s and Holly’s replies, icons and labels need to work in harmony to convey the correct message .

Some icons do not need text labels, as they have a clear, universal message , while others need a text label to refer to the specific message.

PowerPoint Icons in PowerPoint

I developed my personal collection of icons available in PowerPoint . They are all elegant and designed with the same style. 

How do you get access to them? 

Through the MLC PowerPoint Add-in !

Launch your Add-in , open the MLC Assets library:

Here you get my personal collection of icons available for you. 

Search for the icon that suits you and insert it with just one click. 

You can even apply the color you desire to the icon as it is an SVG vector file . 

Keep reading to discover the benefits of this file format. 

Free Icons for PowerPoint: Where can you find them?

There are multiple websites where you can find PowerPoint icons for presentations such as tons of free vector. I’m going to list some top-quality ones below:

• www.flaticon.com
• www.thenounproject.com
• www.iconfinder.com
• https://iconmonstr.com

Feel free to comment and add relevant websites.

Even though you can quickly tap into a huge offer of great free icons online , I’d suggest you to choose the website that you feel more comfortable to use and to go with it.

By just focusing on one site, you’ll be quicker every time you use it, as you’ll get accustomed to it. This will boost your effectiveness when you need to source many free icons for presentations .

For the above-mentioned reason, I chose Flaticon , which I find perfect for every use.

If you can’t find an icon that represents your concept, it’s often because you are not looking for the right thing.

When you scout for icons on these websites, you need to keep in mind that you are not using Google, so the results to your search will be exactly what you looked for, do not expect for related suggestions.

My suggestion is to think of the concept you are trying to visualize .

If a specific icon for that concept does not exist, jot down the word and brainstorm related alternatives that could be easier to associate to an icon.

For example, last week I was working on a presentation in the medical field and I had to find a way to visualize Erythema .

If you go to Flaticon and type Erythema, you won’t find an appropriate icon for that.

However, if you think at it as an inflammation , you could easily visualize it with a fire, which is what I did. Below, you’ll find some examples:

B&W vs colored icons in PowerPoint

My first tip concerning PowerPoint icons for presentations is to go to Flaticon where you will find hundreds of thousands of icons for every category you could ever imagine.

The first trick is to make a choice between black & white icons and colored icons. In the following image, you’ll see several icon packages:

As you can see, there are many beautiful PowerPoint vector icons and, at first, you could easily get caught by the joy of colored icons, but this is the point where I need to warn you to pay attention.

Colored icons are beautiful, but they introduce random colors in your presentation.

When you design a presentation and you want to use icons for PowerPoint presentations , one of the very first rules to respect is to be consistent with the color palette across all the slides (learn everything about how to use colors in a presentation in the extract of Lean Presentation Design – read more ).

Sometimes you build your color palette and you choose the colors, some others you must align with corporate brand guidelines.

In any case, you need to respect a guideline and to carefully control the colors of the elements that you introduce in your slides.

Therefore, I always recommend only using black and white PowerPoint icons for presentations.

I’m not telling you to limit yourself to B&W colors, but to apply to the mono-colored icons the one color that best fits with your color palette.

Finally, instead of having multicolored icons with uncontrollable colors that create visual noise, you’ll have all the icons consistent.

Remember “ less is more “, always.

PowerPoint icons: Which icon format shall we prefer for PowerPoint presentations?

When you choose free icons for presentations to download, you’ll have to choose the format you want to use.

Let’s see the opportunities that Flaticon gives you:

Download icons in PNG format

This is a well-known layered image format. It is typically used to create images without backgrounds.

Def. Portable Network Graphics (PNG /ˈpɪŋ/) is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was created as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format (GIF), and is the most widely used lossless image compression format on the Internet. Wikipedia

• From low- to high-resolution images : 16px to 512px pictures. I recommend you to use 512px pictures. You’ll have the time to compress them in PowerPoint if needed.

• Cutting possible : Images can be cut in PowerPoint to create nice graphics. For example, download an icon

Drag and drop it into PowerPoint (NB. I’m using Google Chrome, so I can drag it from the ribbon below directly).

Now place the icon, and then use the crop function.

As a result, you’ll get the image like it comes up from the outside of the slide, so it seems to be much longer than what it actually is.

• Color not editable : You would better select the color before you download the icon because in PowerPoint you won’t be free to change the color as you like. There is a very primitive image color editing menu in PowerPoint, but I wouldn’t rely on it, as the colors you can apply are mostly ugly and the choice is very limited.

• Hard to update : PNG Editing rigidity will create a problem every time you need to change it if you don’t remember how you found the icon. For example, you are making a presentation for your boss and you found a specific icon which he liked, but he just wants it to be a different color. You go back to Flaticon to find it again but you don’t remember what it was called and, in the meanwhile, Flaticon has also reordered the icons ranking. Trust me, it could take forever to find icons, even after only a week!

Download icons in EPS format

This is the most flexible vector format you could have in PowerPoint but you need to know a top-secret PowerPoint hack to unlock .eps icons’ editing functions.

Let me show you how to import and edit an .eps icon in PowerPoint:

• Download the .eps icon of your choice.

2. Import it in PowerPoint. Ungroup it.

3. You’ll notice a frame around the icon. At this point, your icon is editable.

4. Click several times to enter the group of items and select the border to remove it.

5. From now on, every piece of the icon will be editable. I’ll apply different colors to the parts, just to give you an example.

• Stretch the icons and keep the quality Vector icons can be stretched and resized without losing quality, as the vectors are rendered through formulas not through bitmaps. Therefore, every time you stretch the icon, the formulas behind will recalculate and proportionally render it.
• Customize your icons .eps files allow you to edit most of the Flaticon icons. You could take parts away or just color part of them.
• Change color whenever you want You’ll be always flexible to change colors in the icon or to parts of it at any time.
• Ungrouping takes time You need to ungroup the icon and remove the border to make it ready to be edited, this takes time, especially when you work with many icons

Download icons in SVG format

Concerning PowerPoint icons for presentations,  SVG is my favorite format because it’s flexible and very quick to edit. In the past, it wasn’t possible to import SVG files in PowerPoint, but recently, PowerPoint 365 began supporting them.

Here’s how to import an SVG icon in PowerPoint:

• Download the icons as an SVG file.

2. Drag and drop the icon into PowerPoint.

3. Select the icon and change the outline color of it.

4. Now try to play with the filling color (with regard to colors, I am not sure  you know that the attention of the audience is mainly attracted by the contrast that you can create, for example, with an intelligent use of colors.

• Quick to import From Flaticon to PowerPoint, you just need to drag and drop once downloaded.
• Flexible in colors You can change the color in PowerPoint as many time as you want directly in PowerPoint.
• Stretchable Stretch as much as you want because it is a vector format that will not lose quality.
• Not editable You cannot edit single parts like you would with an .eps

My recommendation is to always work with SVG files except for those icons that need a deeper editing in the way those are built. In those specific cases, go for an EPS and you’ll often be able to edit most of the icon.

PowerPoint icons: Convert fonts in vector icons directly in PowerPoint

Have you ever needed to use a font as part of a logo or for some specific part of your design?

In these situations, it becomes tough to work out the exact size of the font in points. Fonts are not comfortable to design things.

The best way to work this out is to convert the font into SVG icons tracing their outlines. Let me show you how to convert a font into an icon:

• Type a word and design a rectangle (all shapes would work but a rectangle is easier to overlap).

2. Overlap the rectangle to the word.

3. Keeping the selection as it is, use the fragment option

4. Get rid of the parts you don’t need.

5. Here you’ll have your letters turned into icons

Now that you can turn fonts into icons, you could use this technique for symbols. For example:

So, all of the sudden, every symbol included in your PowerPoint becomes an icon.

PowerPoint icons: Create PowerPoint icons for presentations

Turning a font into icons can go much further and let you access to tons of icons you could easily create. Let me show how it works.

Go to 1001fonts.com and you’ll find a huge repository of every kind of font. The cool thing is that the fonts are organized by categories. If you choose icons, 1001 fonts will sort out all the fonts where each letter corresponds to an icon:

• The first step to use PowerPoint icons for presentations is to choose a cool one with many icons.

2. Now download this font and install it in your system. My recommendation is to drag and drop the OTF file into the font repository of your computer so that, if the font has many installation files, you won’t have to click and install them one by one.

3. Now open PowerPoint, assign the font to a new textbox and type some letters on your keyboard. You’ll be writing symbols!

4. In order to sort out all the icons from the font you downloaded you would have to type all the letters and the special characters on your keyboard or, keep reading and I’ll reveal you a quick tip. Open the windows character map.

5. Select the font you downloaded.

6. Choose the free icons for presentations that bests suit your needs and click copy (you’ll notice that the character map shows you a zoom of the selected letter to help you visualize your choice – thanks Microsoft!)

7. Another step to edit PowerPoint icons for presentations is to paste the icon as a text into a textbox in PowerPoint and the magic will happen! You’ll have imported the glyph as a text.

Now you know how to proceed to convert these “letters” into editable icons. Using the techniques illustrated above, you’ll get the result shown below (I added some colors).

You have now learned how to leverage fonts online in order to source PowerPoint icons for presentations.

In order to be much faster, I prepared for you a full map of the main characters of all the fonts. Apply the new glyph font to them in order to have all the characters ready to turn into icons. Let’s see how it works:

• Download the character list I prepared for you.

2. Apply the font to the character map and you’ll have all characters discovered.

3. Now just proceed to convert the characters you prefer into PowerPoint icons for presentations as shown above.

I led you through this example with just one font taken from one of many font websites. From now on, you can apply these techniques to all the fonts you find.

PowerPoint icons: Using PowerPoint icons for presentations

PowerPoint 365 offered us a lot of inspiration and nice tricks. Amongst these, you’ll find beautiful icons ready to use.

• Open the insert menu and launch the icon panel.

2. Choose the category where you think you’ll find the icon you need and double click on the icon.

3. The icon is ready to use and it behaves as an SVG icon (check above for more information).

Even though I find this new feature a revolutionary improvement from Microsoft, I never really use it for two reasons:

• The set of PowerPoint icons for presentations is still very limited so I often don’t find what I need.
• There is no search function . This forces you to go through the categories and find something like what you need. This process quickly becomes like looking for a needle in a haystack, so I prefer to use flaticon.

Icons in PowerPoint: Conclusion

Nowadays, PowerPoint icons for presentations are a powerful tool to communicate in your presentations. Icons allow you to leverage a picture’s superiority effects thanks to their visual shapes.

Moreover, icons speed up your presentation design process, which is very useful when working on last minute presentations.

What do you think about PowerPoint icons for presentations ?

Do you know some alternative source for icons?

Icons for PowerPoint Presentations – SlideModel.com

Maurizio La Cava

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