For most people, customizing a desktop or home screen starts with changing the imagery on it – most notably the wallpaper and icons. And although changing the wallpaper on your Android device is the simplest of tasks, changing icons is not as easy. In fact, you simply can’t do it unless you are using a launcher replacement like ADW Launcher, LauncherPro, Go Launcher Ex or any of the dozens of other options available in the Android Market.

So having already discussed how to change icons on the home screen using any of the three aforementioned launchers, let’s take a look at some of the best icons sets out there for your phone.

Now since you can use pretty much any PNG file as an icon in Android, the possibilities are limitless. To avoid getting carried away with the thousands of options out there, we’ve gathered a set of the best and most beautiful free icon sets we could find. Note that not all of these are made for Android – some are in fact themes created specifically for the iPhone. But they all come with PNG files for icons and are therefore work perfectly on Android. In cases where pre-built themes for any of the popular launcher are available, I’m included links to those as well.

The Icon Sets

Aelous

• Aeolus HD ADW Theme

Android Mega Pack 2

Big Spender

Blawb

• blawb LauncherPro Theme

Boom

Buuf

• ADW.BuuF.Theme

Colorful Stickers

C’ups

Edius HD

Faenza

• ADW theme | Faenza
• Faenza Icons LauncherPro/ADW

Faience

Hyaline

iDroid

Inertia

iPhonious

Joker

M.jexlo

M22

• LauncherPro+ M22-3D Icons Pack

MiBadge

Michezo

Minimal Text

Miui

Miui-Signa

Oletus

Once Again

PurityFS HD

renewSet

Samoled

Scour

Sketchy

Suave HD

• Suave Theme for Go Launcher Ex
• Suave HD Icons LauncherPro/ADW

Tetra

Whiteout

Zorsha

Conclusion

Got a favorite set that is not featured here? Let’s hear about it in the comments.