I definitely have a love-hate relationship with icons. It reminds me of the days in the nineties when I had five million fonts (thank you, USENET) and nowhere to put them. Now, of course, I've learned that less is more; my font collection is much smaller and yet far more useful. I have adopted the same philosophy with icons; however, I still have many icon packs I can turn to when the need arises.

For the purposes of this series, I've defined "small" as 16×16 or smaller; some icon sets have a few members that break this rule, but the bulk of their icons are small enough for my purposes.

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