Noun Project

aid: noun-project
name: Noun Project
description: The Noun Project is a visual language platform providing access to nearly 10 million royalty-free PNG and SVG
  icons through an OAuth 1.0a-secured REST API. The v2 API supports icon search with style and line-weight filtering, similar-icon
  lookup, collection browsing, custom recoloring, autocomplete, per-client blocklists, and usage telemetry. Built on AWS,
  it serves more than 300 million requests per month at 99.99% uptime.
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: open
  trial: true
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Freemium (free trial) · Open access
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://thenounproject.com/icon.png
url: http://api.thenounproject.com/index.html
humanURL: https://thenounproject.com/api/
baseURL: https://api.thenounproject.com
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-05-28'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-type: company
x-category: Art & Design
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
- Art And Design
- Icons
- SVG
- Visual Language
- Design Assets
- Public APIs
apis:
- aid: noun-project:noun-project-autocomplete-api
  name: Noun Project Autocomplete API
  description: Suggest search terms based on a query prefix.
  humanURL: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: https://api.thenounproject.com
  tags:
  - Autocomplete
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noun-project-autocomplete-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://thenounproject.com/developers/apps/
  - type: APIExplorer
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/explorer
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
- aid: noun-project:noun-project-blocklist-api
  name: Noun Project Blocklist API
  description: Manage per-client blocklists for icon IDs, collection IDs, and terms.
  humanURL: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: https://api.thenounproject.com
  tags:
  - Blocklist
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noun-project-blocklist-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://thenounproject.com/developers/apps/
  - type: APIExplorer
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/explorer
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
- aid: noun-project:noun-project-collection-api
  name: Noun Project Collection API
  description: Search and retrieve curated icon collections (icon sets).
  humanURL: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: https://api.thenounproject.com
  tags:
  - Collection
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noun-project-collection-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://thenounproject.com/developers/apps/
  - type: APIExplorer
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/explorer
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
- aid: noun-project:noun-project-icon-api
  name: Noun Project Icon API
  description: Search, filter, retrieve, and download icons from the Noun Project library.
  humanURL: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: https://api.thenounproject.com
  tags:
  - Icon
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noun-project-icon-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://thenounproject.com/developers/apps/
  - type: APIExplorer
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/explorer
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
- aid: noun-project:noun-project-usage-api
  name: Noun Project Usage API
  description: Inspect current API key usage against documented quotas.
  humanURL: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  baseURL: https://api.thenounproject.com
  tags:
  - Usage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/noun-project-usage-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/documentation.html
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
  - type: Signup
    url: https://thenounproject.com/developers/apps/
  - type: APIExplorer
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/explorer
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://api.thenounproject.com/getting_started.html
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/noun-project-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/noun-project-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/noun-project-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://thenounproject.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://thenounproject.com/api/
- type: Signup
  url: https://thenounproject.com/developers/apps/
- type: Support
  url: https://thenounproject.zendesk.com/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.thenounproject.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/TheNounProject
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://thenounproject.com/legal/api-terms-of-use/
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
- type: Plans
  url: plans/noun-project-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/noun-project-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/noun-project-finops.yml
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/noun-project-vocabulary.yml
- type: SpectralRules
  url: rules/noun-project-rules.yml
- url: https://blog.thenounproject.com/feed/
  type: Blog
features:
- name: Icon Search
  description: Search nearly 10 million icons by query term, with optional filters for style (solid/line), line weight (1-60
    pixels at 512px rendering), public domain status, and thumbnail size.
- name: Similar Icons
  description: Discover stylistically similar icons by providing a seed icon ID, enabling consistent visual language across
    a project.
- name: Icon Download with Recoloring
  description: Download any icon in SVG or PNG format with a custom hexadecimal color and pixel size (20-1200 for PNG).
- name: Collection Browsing
  description: Search and retrieve curated icon collections (icon sets) with full metadata and member icons.
- name: Autocomplete
  description: Suggest search terms based on a query prefix, returning up to 10 matches.
- name: Per-Client Blocklist
  description: Maintain a per-API-key blocklist of icon IDs, collection IDs, terms, and phrases to filter out unwanted content
    from search results. Blocklist is cached for 10 minutes.
- name: Usage Telemetry
  description: Retrieve current API key usage against hourly, daily, and monthly limits via the /v2/client/usage endpoint.
useCases:
- name: Icon Library Integration
  description: Embed Noun Project's visual language into a design tool, no-code builder, or web/mobile application so end
    users can pick from millions of icons without leaving the host product.
- name: Branded Iconography
  description: Recolor icons to match brand palettes on the fly using the hex color parameter on the download endpoint, eliminating
    per-icon design work.
- name: Style-Consistent Design Systems
  description: Use the more-like-this endpoint to source visually consistent icon sets from a single seed icon, accelerating
    design system curation.
- name: Content Moderation
  description: Apply per-client blocklists to suppress icons that conflict with brand safety, regional, or audience-appropriate
    guidelines.
- name: Educational and Reference Tools
  description: Pair the autocomplete and icon search endpoints to power glossary-style visual references and learning tools.
integrations:
- name: OAuth 1.0a Client Libraries
  description: Compatible with any standards-compliant OAuth 1.0a library, including requests_oauthlib (Python), oauth1 (Node.js),
    Faraday-OAuth (Ruby), DotNetOpenAuth (.NET), and Guzzle OAuth Subscriber (PHP).
- name: Sketch
  description: The provider maintains Sketch plugin tooling (SketchPluginReloader) and historically distributed a Noun Project
    Sketch plugin.
- name: Microsoft Office and Google Workspace
  description: Provider-distributed plugins for Microsoft 365 and Google Slides surface the same icon catalog backed by this
    API.
solutions:
- name: Design Tool Vendors
  description: Power icon pickers, asset browsers, and template galleries inside design, presentation, and document-creation
    tools.
- name: Marketing and Brand Teams
  description: On-demand recoloring of icons to enforce brand palettes across web, print, and presentation assets.
- name: Education Platforms
  description: Add visual reference material to learning content with royalty-free, commercially-licensed icons.
- name: No-Code and Low-Code Builders
  description: Expose a curated icon library to citizen developers building dashboards, portals, and forms.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com