A Roundup of Free Holiday Icon Sets and Vector Elements
With the holidays approaching, there’s no better time to add some festive flair to your projects. We’ve rounded up a collection of winter- and Christmas-themed icon sets and vector elements that are available for free download. Whether you’re designing last-minute Christmas cards, gift tags, or wrapping paper, these resources have you covered.
Before you use any of these freebies, be sure to check the license attached to each set or contact the creators directly. Many require attribution, and usage rights vary between personal and commercial projects. A big thank-you goes out to the designers who generously share their work with the community.
Detailed 3D Icons
Iconfinder’s set of wonderful Christmas 3D icons includes 12 detailed icons featuring Christmas mail, a decorated house, and a red-nosed reindeer. They are available as transparent PNGs in 10 different sizes, from 13×13px up to 1024×1024px. The set is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) license, so you can use and adapt them freely as long as you provide attribution.
Modern Illustrations and Hand-Drawn Sets
The Christmas Illustration Pack by Iconscout takes a playful approach, featuring a hipster Santa on an electric scooter and a car balancing a pile of gifts on its roof. The pack includes 14 illustrations in SVG, PNG, and EPS formats and is free to use with attribution.
For a cuter aesthetic, Freepik and Flaticon offer a hand-drawn Christmas set with 70 elements, including snowmen, ornaments, bells, and gift boxes. The elements come in PNG and SVG formats, in both color and lined versions. The color palette is editable, making them versatile for a range of projects.
Varied Styles: From Flat to Line Art
Zippypixels provides a set of 20 vector icons that combine a flat style with a circular shape and a fun color palette. Available in AI, EPS, SVG, and PNG formats, they can be used freely in personal projects with attribution.
Andrey Rubin’s Pixel-Perfect Line Icons for Kit8 give standard UI icons a festive makeover: the shopping cart becomes Santa’s sleigh, and notification bells are adorned with ribbons. The icons come in EPS, AI, and JPG formats.
Žarko Cvijović’s Christmas stamp icons use postage stamps as a motif to bring people together. The 12 stamps feature traditional holiday imagery with a modern twist and are available in three styles — lined, bold lined, and colored lined — as an AI file.
For character-focused designs, Freepik’s Pictogram Christmas Collection includes 50 holiday-themed characters such as angels, elves, and carolers. The set is fully editable in AI and EPS formats and comes in colored, lined, and colored-lined styles.
Animated Options
If you’re looking to add motion to a website or presentation, Iconfinder offers five animated Christmas- and winter-themed icon sets. All of them come in GIF, MP4, and JSON (for Lottie) formats, along with static PNG and SVG versions. They are free for both personal and commercial use.
Comprehensive Collections
Anastasia Kolisnichenko’s Christmas icon set is a thorough collection with 110 icons covering everything from roast turkey to gingerbread men and cozy sweaters. Available in AI, PSD, PNG, and EPS formats, the icons are customizable in stroke width, size, color, and shape. The license permits any use, including commercial projects.
For those with a more geeky taste, Tatiana Lapina offers 54 geeky Christmas vector graphics featuring characters from Star Wars and popular video games, as well as a delivery drone for presents. The illustrations come in SVG, AI, EPS, PDF, and PNG formats and are free for personal and commercial use.
Manuela Langella’s Christmas Tales icon set features 24 storybook-style icons, including unique motifs like Santa stuck in a chimney. Available in AI, PSD, EPS, PDF, SVG, and PNG formats, the fully layered files allow for extensive customization. The set is free for private and commercial use.
Langella’s second contribution, the Advent icon set, includes 25 icons celebrating the Advent season with decorations and food motifs. The download offers AI, EPS, SVG, PNG, and PDF formats. It is released under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license, permitting both private and commercial use.
Unique Motifs
For a more subtle approach, createvil’s hand-drawn Christmas icons feature a detailed pencil-sketch style that evokes nostalgic winter vibes. The set is available in EPS format.
The Ho Ho Ho icon set by James Oconnell includes ten line art icons, with dotted lines and accent colors adding a distinct twist. The centerpiece features a squiggly "Ho Ho Ho" framed by snowflakes. The icons are in AI format and free to use as you wish.
Icons8 offers a more realistic take with its set of 3D Christmas graphics depicting hands giving and receiving gifts and holding decorations. The graphics come in five skin tones and two styles, available in PNG and 3D formats. They are free to download, but you must link back to Icons8 when using them.
Meanwhile, George Neocleous’ festive Christmas icon set offers 20 minimal vector icons in EPS format, available in both color and grayscale. These are free to use without restrictions in personal and commercial projects.
Freepik’s Lovely Christmas Icon Set captures the feeling of a cozy cabin in the woods with classic, calm holiday colors. The 20 icons are available in EPS and AI formats and are free for personal and commercial use with attribution to the designer.
Specialized Selections
Glyph Color Christmas icons by Maverick Studio at Christmas HQ mixes Santa with Nativity scenes in a set of 36 holiday icons. The pack is available in SVG, Figma, Sketch, and PNG formats.
The Icojam design duo offers 25 Tidee XMAS icons with a minimalist take on traditional motifs. These complement the larger Tidee icon set and are available in AI, EPS, SVG, and PNG formats.
RocketTheme’s Christmas icon set is notable for its attention to detail, such as cracks in a gingerbread man and bubbles on milk. The ten icons come as 256×256 PNGs under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License, allowing commercial and private use with credit.
For fans of mid-century style, this Vintage Christmas Element Collection includes wrapped gifts, decorations, and a Christmas tree. The vector is available in AI and EPS formats and is free for personal and commercial projects with attribution.
Bold and Colorful Picks
Andrey Stelya’s cartoonish icon set stands out with its fresh colors and a unique technique of shifting the color layer outside the line art. The set includes twelve icons in SVG and PNG (90×90) formats.
Freepik also offers a collection of hand-drawn flat Christmas elements celebrating the perks of cold winter days, such as woolen sweaters, tea, and gingerbread men. Available in EPS format, it is free for personal and commercial use with attribution. A companion collection features a teapot, ice skates, and more.
Finally, Olha Filipenko’s set of 78 line art icons covers a wide range of winter and holiday themes, from sweets and snowflakes to candles and a postage stamp. The AI-format set offers a minimalistic yet sophisticated design style.
More Holiday Vector Packs Worth Downloading
This second round-up of free Christmas graphics covers hand-lettered badges, pixel-art sprites, watercolor botanicals, and a few unexpected styles such as neon and black-and-gold. All of the following links point to free downloads, though check each license if you plan commercial use — some require attribution and one is for personal projects only.
Typography And Badges
For festive text-based artwork, a collection of watercolor badges from Freepik pairs bold seasonal phrases ("Merry Little Christmas," "Let It Snow," "Ho Ho Ho," "Holly Jolly") with a hand-painted look. The EPS files are usable commercially with attribution — they could be printed for Christmas mail.
For pixel art fans, Anna Sereda's 16-item set of Christmas icons looks straight out of an arcade game. The bundle comes in AI, EPS, PSD, SVG, PNG, and JPEG formats and is free for both personal and commercial projects.
Minimal And Hand-Drawn Sets
Dasha Ermolova's small set covers four motifs — snow globe, stocking, wreath, and ball ornament — in minimalistic line art with fine details. The EPS download is free.
Another clean, line-art option is Žarko Cvijović's dozen icons, which revisit classics such as a present, snowman, reindeer, candle, and sleigh. These are available in EPS format.
Freepik's "Nostalgic Holidays" set gives you 16 AI and EPS icons with a cheerful mid-century look. Free for personal and commercial work, but credit the designer. For a bolder style, Freepik's flat Christmas elements collection is playful and bright, distributed as EPS with attribution required.
Watercolor And Botanical Themes
Freepik's watercolor leaves and branches celebrate winter flora — pine cones, fir needles, acorns. The AI and EPS files are free under the usual attribution terms.
Freepik also offers watercolor Christmas badges with bold type and a hand-painted feel, plus a set of flower wreaths with light colors that could double as print-at-home gift tags. Wassercolor vector elements from the same marketplace have a handmade look and arrive as a single EPS file.
For natural winter motifs, rawpixel.com's freely downloadable EPS set covers holly, pine cones, and fir branches. That same contributor’s Santa illustrations layer a fluffy white beard and a bit of gold on a cheerful figure, also as EPS with attribution required for commercial work.
Cookies And Snow
Anna Zhemchuzhina's six gingerbread-inspired icons carry a just-baked look and come as a PSD download.
Teela Cunningham's snowflake set is drawn by hand and converted to vectors, with AI and EPS files included. This one is marked for private use only.
Even More Holiday Looks
Pikisuperstar's flat vector set features a chubby Santa that recalls storybook illustrations; it's free with attribution. A muted red/green/gold palette defines another Freepik hand-drawn EPS set available for personal and commercial projects with credit. Freepik's black-and-gold background embellishes hand-drawn shapes with shimmer and ships in AI and EPS, while the neon Christmas element collection — available in the same two formats — mixes holiday motifs with bright, glowing accents.
Did you spot a free holiday icon set that deserves attention? Share it in the comments.
