Although e-mail subscriptions are related to RSS feeds, I didn’t like using the standard RSS icon next to my “Get Updates by E-Mail” link. I had trouble finding an icon that matched the standard RSS icon being offered for free, so I created the icon to the left for my own use.
Recently, I noticed that one of my favorite “how to make money” bloggers (Maki from doshdosh.com), was using the standard RSS icon next to his “Get Updates By E-mail” link. Because I take a lot of free information from DoshDosh, I thought I’d offer him the email icon as a small token of my appreciation. He graciously accepted it, and you can see it in action by visiting his site.
If any of you have been looking for a similar icon, I packed eight different sizes of the icon pictured above into a .zip file for you to download and use on your website for free, no strings attached.
Download the free email subscription icon pack here.
If you found this useful, be sure to let me know in the comments.
I think that icon looks great. Did you make it straight from scratch or did you use an RSS icon as the base?
If you did make it from scratch – you really oughta look into doing some freelance type graphic design type stuff. That way you’re not strapped down to a job.
I used the RSS icon as a base, but you can make things like this pretty easily with a free vector graphics program called Inkscape.
Thanks, Jon.. for the free email icon and cheers for offering it to everyone for free. That’s nice of you. π
IΒ΄m using your icon now. Like you, I was looking for something different that still kept the same feel of the RSS standard and since IΒ΄m on an extended stay out of the country I donΒ΄t have access to my Adobe CS2. Good thing I found your icon which saved the day.
You are a real star, Jon. I did a quick Google search for “icon email”. Your site came up on the first or second page and was EXACTLY what I was looking for!!
i just added the icon to my blog. it’s perfect. thanks very much.
Just what I was looking for. Thanks!
thanks for the icons, I typed email icon RSS and voila! this is what I was looking for, I’m still setting up the links, in few days it will be ready.
hi, thanks a mill for these icons. was desperately trying to find some way of giving users the option of subscribing via RSS or Email without having to waste space duplicating words. unfortunately standard email icons just don’t convey the message. double kudos on putting it out there for free. interesting that you don’t use it on your site, but you can see it in use on our blog at http://www.urbansurvivalproject.org
thanks again
Thanks very much. Nice icon. It would be nice if you also have printer icon similar to this one. Anyway simple and useful. Thanks
Game in from Google and grabbed the pack. Thanks much.
I’ve been looking for this for a while; guess I didn’t choose the right search terms last time I Googled. Thanks! In use at http://qarrtsiluni.com/
Jon,
I love your icons, and I’m using one on my blog. I’ve also blogged on where I got them.
Great icon! Thanks!
I will be using it on 2 different blogs.
Nice Job!
Beautiful email icon! Just what I was looking for. I’ll install it sometime over the next couple of days. Thank you!
Great icons – just what I needed for people to subscribe to deals on my UK discount code site. Thanks again – Martin.
Thanks for this!
Thanks a Bunch! Just what I was looking for!!
Thanks for the cool icon, couldn’t resist adding it to my site π
Thanks so much … just what I was looking for!
Wow, exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks Jon!
Thanks for the icon. It rocks!
Edgar
Loving that icon π
Great!! Thank you so much!
Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
Excellent. Thank you very much
Great!. Thank you.
Thanks so much – these will be perfect for our Group!
Fabulous! Thanks for these… I’d been looking everywhere for something like this!
Found this post after the hubby gave me the link to your beard page… nice. π
Hello!
Great icon. However, I’m quite new to blogs. How would it be possible to install it? π
Regards!
Thank you!!
Awesome – this is just what I was looking for. Thank you!
Thanks Mate!
Got one up on my blog now!
Thanks, this is just what I was looking for.
Hi,
I have been searching for something like this since a long time. Thanks for the icon.
Exactly what I was looking for – thanks for making this available!
Would be perfect on my blog but I have no idea how to install this icon into my Feedburner html script. Would really appreciate your help.
1. Copy the 16×16 version of the icon to your server
2. Look at your feedburner HTML for this:
3. Right before that insert the following making sure to insert the location of your image where it says [location of the image on your server]:
Worked like a charm Jon. Will be happy to spread the word. Many thanks.
Exactly what we were looking for. Thanks a million!
Thanks!
Thanks for the icon Jon, I’m using the 16×16 icon on my rat blog and it looks perfect right below my RSS button π
Jon –
Many thanks. The Mail icon looks right in place next to the RSS icon.
Thanks so much for this. It’s exactly what I was looking for when redesigning our email newsletter. Next up is incorporation into our new blog: Everything Communicates
http://blogs.rassak.com/everythingcommunicates
Thank you!! This is exactly what I was looking for! Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks! I’ve been looking all week for an icon for e-mail subscription that would fit my theme, and this matches perfectly with my design.
http://www.madstratter.com
Thanks! I’ve put this on my site now!
Do you have the RSS icon to match? I have an RSS icon and the color is subtly different… I want matching colors of both :/ Where did you get your RSS icon?
Thanks,
Jennifer
Thanks a lot! Looks great.
THX!! I was useful : ) I will be using it : D
Thanks so much for this!
Thank you for the icon π
This is a nice little icon – just what I was looking for. Many thanks for making it available.
Thanks for sharing.
Hey, great icon! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the neat icons. =)
Hey Jon, hi all,
I was inspired by your frustration at the poor choice of standard feed icons, and have created a WordPress plugin (my first ever) that you might be interested in. It is called Subscription Options.
It adds three subscription feed icons options for readers to place in any widget-ready area. Users can add a FeedBurner RSS feed URL; a FeedBurner Email service URL and a Twitter feed URL to the relevant images. Icon sizes and title text are totally user-defined.
I used the standard orange RSS icon that you used to create your mail icon, and I’ve remixed your mail icon and turned it green (you get credit in my readme). Finally, I’ve made a totally new Twitter feed icon in blue, which I hope your readers will like.
Please check it out here:
http://digitalcortex.net/plugins
All feedback appreciated.
Yours,
Tom
this is exactly what i have been looking for. thanks a lot for sharing!
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks!!
Nice icon, just what I was looking for. Thanks.
This is wonderful – exactly what I needed! Thanks!
Hey thanks for the icon. Just what I wanted!
Thanks, fits perfectly next to the free animated RSS icon I found π
Cheers from Germany…
Jon, thanks for the icon, it’s exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks a lot Jon, have created a new one of 48 x 48 and have started using it on my blog… π
You’re the top hit on Google for “RSS email icon” now… well done! Was just what I needed. The snip of code in the comments was a real time-saver too.
High-five for free beer (and speech)!
This is great, Jon! Just what I was looking for… I changed it to 20×20 and used it on my website.
Thanks!
Awesome. Thanks for doing this!
Thanks. This is perfect. Exactly what I was looking for to flesh out my subscription section.
Thank you very much! Grateful.
This is perfect, just what I was looking for. Thanks so much!! π
perfect, just the email icon i was looking for!
Perfect, just what I was looking for. I agree the usual feed icon isn’t right for it.
Thanks for making this email feed icon freely available. Just what I needed. I’ve intalled it on my main site http://deswalsh.com for now and will probably use it on a couple of other sites. Take a bow!
When I originally left a comment I appear to have clicked the -Notify me when new comments are added- checkbox and from
now on whenever a comment is afded I recieve four emails
with the same comment. Is there an easy method you can remove
me from that service? Appreciaate it!