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Noun Project

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.

agent ready

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Noun Project the way a machine reads it — 63 machine-readable artifacts across 5 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Noun Project scores 58.7/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 58.7/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.9 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Noun Project

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Noun Project. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 5

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

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.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Noun Project API V2

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Noun Project Rate Limits

12 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Noun Project Context

16 classes · 61 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Noun Project API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Noun Project API Rules

49 rules · 18 errors · 24 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 16

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AutocompleteResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlocklistIdRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlocklistResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Blocklist

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlocklistTermRequest

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Collection

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CollectionSearchResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IconCreator

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IconResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Icon

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IconSearchResponse

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tag

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UsageResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Usage

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UsageWindow

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 16

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Noun Project Blocklist Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Blocklist Structure

4 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Collection Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Collection Structure

13 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Icon Creator Structure

7 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Icon Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Icon Structure

25 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Tag Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Usage Response Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Usage Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Noun Project Usage Window Structure

6 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 16

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Noun Project Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Noun Project Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Noun Project Agentic Access

11 operations · 2 acting

11 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Noun Project — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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