# Noun Project

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/noun-project/  
**Website:** https://thenounproject.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 5

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.

## Kin Score — 35.6 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 35.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 22.7 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |
| Access Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 35.0 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Open access — onboarding: open, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (5)

- **Noun Project Autocomplete API** — Suggest search terms based on a query prefix.
- **Noun Project Blocklist API** — Manage per-client blocklists for icon IDs, collection IDs, and terms.
- **Noun Project Collection API** — Search and retrieve curated icon collections (icon sets).
- **Noun Project Icon API** — Search, filter, retrieve, and download icons from the Noun Project library.
- **Noun Project Usage API** — Inspect current API key usage against documented quotas.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Noun Project Agentic Access** — 11 operations · 2 acting

## Security (2)

- **Noun Project Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Noun Project Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Noun Project Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Art And Design, Icons, SVG, Visual Language, Design Assets, Public APIs

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/noun-project/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.