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The Noun Project
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Where it stands
3.5 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health3.6 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.9 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
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Rank by signals
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Measured signals
3.6 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from The Noun Project's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 178 ms.
- Security2 / 50 of 5 protective headers set.
- Privacy4 / 51 third-party tracking service found: Google Tag Manager.
- Transparency3 / 5No privacy policy linked; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.9 / 5 · 15 commenters93% of the 15 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about The Noun Project; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“While The Noun Project is good for common nouns, if you're looking for something slightly out of the norm, you'll have to scroll through endless pages to find something that will fit. Other than this, it's an excellent…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“Agreed re: consistency -- good icon design requires understanding what people expect and matching it, which isn't always easy (as the referenced project demonstrates!)”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Forcing an open source project to pay roughly $200 for a one time use is a bad decision. Using such a typeface in a logo is a poor choice because that mean you can't embed it easily for free on the product's website…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Noun Project – Icons for Everything (2017, 141 comments) · The Noun Project: Icons for everything (2012, 67 comments) · NounProject - Icons in Black and White (2011, 3 comments)
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Tasks and scores
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