Help Build the World’s
Visual Language

Quick and Easy

Easily upload your icons and define them.
Global Recognition

Become iconic and get the visibility you deserve.
Royal Perks

Earn money each time your icons get purchased.

To upload photos, please use our Photo Upload Tool.

Upload your icons and make them discoverable by adding search words.

License them under
Creative Commons or Public Domain
Learn More

Creative Commons gives you ownership of your icon. If anybody wants to use it, they have to give you credit or give you money.

Public Domain gives your icons to the world for free. When someone uses them, credit is not required.

Once uploaded, icons are put through our moderation and curation process. If they meet our standards, they will be accepted as part of our visual language.

Earn royalties on your icons

Millions of users search Noun Project for all types of icons. When they purchase any of yours through single, prepaid, subscription, or API, you earn royalties.

Someone pays for your icon through a single purchase.

You earn 60% royalties.

When a Noun Project user purchases your icon, you earn 60% of that payment.

Someone uses your icon through pre–paid, subscription, or API.

You earn 40% royalties.

When a Noun Project user pays for a subscription, pre-pays for future icons, or uses our API, 40% of their payment is added to each royalty pool. At the end of each month, we divide each royalty pool by how many icons were used to get the royalty rate per icon. Then we tally up how many of the icons used were yours and add the total to your monthly royalty payment.

Making icons makes money

Single Purchases

Fixed Royalties

Get 60% of each icon purchased.

Each time someone purchases your icon for $2.99, you earn $1.80.
And we pay all transaction fees.

Subscriptions

Sliding Scale

Get 40% of the total shared Subscription revenue.

Subscribers get unlimited access to all of our icons, including yours.
So we add up all the subscription fees and divide it by all the icons that got downloaded through subscriptions, including yours.
All that crazy math gives us a rate-per-icon downloaded. The number will change every month, but we always give 40% of it back to the creators, including you.
And we still pay all transaction fees.

API Usage

Sliding Scale

Get 40% of the total shared API Usage revenue.

We divide the entire month’s API fees by the total number of API icon uses.
That gives us a rate-per-icon used. You still get 40% of it for every one of your used icons.
And we still pay all transaction fees.

Getting paid is really simple. We use PayPal to pay our creators. If you‘ve made at least $25, your royalties will be delivered to your PayPal account by the last day of the following month.

Help Build the World’s Visual Language

Quick and Easy

Global Recognition

Royal Perks

Upload your icons and make them discoverable by adding search words.

License them under Creative Commons or Public Domain Learn More

Once uploaded, icons are put through our moderation and curation process. If they meet our standards, they will be accepted as part of our visual language.

Earn royalties on your icons

Someone pays for your icon through a single purchase.

Someone uses your icon through pre–paid, subscription, or API.

Making icons makes money

Single Purchases

Fixed Royalties

Subscriptions

Sliding Scale

API Usage

Sliding Scale

Getting paid is really simple. We use PayPal to pay our creators. If you‘ve made at least $25, your royalties will be delivered to your PayPal account by the last day of the following month.

Help Build the World’s
Visual Language

License them under
Creative Commons or Public Domain
Learn More