Question

While there are many resources for Icons, free graphic files why can’t i find any that hosts CSS Sprite images so that as a web developer that saves me time from uploading, stacking and doing nonsense stuff rather than developing the website.(I am not looking for css sprite generator but one that provided css sprite images as a whole that i can readily use)

Best i could find was this one :

http://www.spritecow.com/

I picked some from jQueryUi, Yahoo YUI anymore ??

Some More Examples:

http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/button/img/buttons.png

http://static.jquery.com/ui/css/demo-docs-theme/images/222222_256x240_icons_icons.png

http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/icons/preview/diagona.png

http://p.yusukekamiyamane.com/icons/preview/fugue.png

Answer 1

Interesting question.

I have never seen a CDN (content delivery network) for sprites, in the same way that there are CDNs for javascript libraries, etc.

I am guessing the reason is this: CSS spites are usually particular to a specific site. They are usually clips of various images related to a specific design. So they might not be as portable as a framework.

If you were to have several of your own sites using similar designs, you could “roll your own” sprites file and serve it from one domain to all your sites.