Where to find icons for new applications?

[paws]

For my todo list app, which targets OS 7-9, I'm looking for a few small, generic icons for a toolbar - a pencil icon, a wastebasket, and a checkmark, maybe one or two more.

Short of just nicking some from an app I like, I wonder if there's somewhere I can look for pixel icons in an appropriate "late Classic" style? I've only ever done modern development with stuff like Font Awesome. Unfortunately I'm not much of an artist myself.

 

[Crutch]

My first stop would actually be nicking them. The Susan Kare MacPaint palette icons were pretty ubiquitous in the classic Mac era. I would personally grab that pencil probably, and use the Finder’s “small icon” version of the trash can for a wastebasket. That way you end up pixel-perfect vs. what Mac users expect.

For miscellaneous symbols like a checkmark, try the Cairo and Symbol fonts.

 

[Phipli]

In the absence of skill, you could always brute force it - write a little program that generates a random collection of black and white pixels and keep pressing refresh until you get an icon you like?

 

[Phipli]

A project I'm actually competent enough to attempt :

 

[paws]

Haha, might give that a try. For a 32x32 icon it seems like a lot of pressing enter, though.

 

[Phipli]

Haha, might give that a try. For a 32x32 icon it seems like a lot of pressing enter, though.

Yeah, 2^1024 variations, which my phone's calculator says "out of range" for.

There is a bug in that version that means it doesn't redraw properly if you cover it with another window, but I didn't want to spam the update.