Noun Project Seamless Patterns

Stock-icon search page: 1,873 pattern-themed glyphs, CC BY free or paid royalty-free

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This is a search-term page inside Noun Project, the long-running stock icon marketplace, filtered to the term 'seamless pattern' and returning 1,873 contributor-uploaded glyphs. These are single-colour icons that depict or reference patterns — they are not tileable pattern fills. Download is free as black-only PNG or SVG with mandatory CC BY attribution to the artist, or royalty-free without attribution under a NounPro subscription. Useful if you need a pattern-themed pictogram; the wrong tool if you need an actual repeating background.

For an agent

Do not reach for this to build a background — the results are pictograms of patterns, not tileable fills; use Hero Patterns or fffuel for that. Reach for it only when a project needs a specific, obscure pictogram that Lucide, Phosphor and Heroicons do not cover, and remember the free tier legally requires a visible artist credit in the shipped product, which is a licensing trap in commercial work. There is a public API, so prefer programmatic search over scraping this browse page.

Why it is here. Noun Project is the deepest icon corpus on the web (nearly 10 million assets), so it is the fallback when a curated open set has no match — but the attribution requirement on the free tier makes it a deliberate, not a default, choice.

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Facts

License: CC BY, Commercial license
Pricing: Freemium, Subscription, Free but account required
Framework: Not applicable
Styling: Not applicable
Distribution: Web app / online tool, Direct download / asset pack, Public HTTP API, Marketplace listing
Platform: Web
Content type: Icons, Images / textures / backgrounds
Agent readiness: Public API without auth, Login required
Accessibility: Not applicable
Maturity: Actively maintained
Pricing detail: Free download with CC BY attribution (black only, no editor). Single icon $4.99. NounPro $3.33/mo billed yearly (unlimited icons). NounPro Plus $9.99/mo billed yearly (icons, icon sets, photos). Paid tiers are royalty-free, worldwide, perpetual, no attribution.

Notable for

1,873 results for this term
nearly 10M icons site-wide
CC BY free tier needs artist credit
public API available
black-only export without a subscription

Provenance

Verified 2026-08-15. HTTP 200. https://thenounproject.com/browse/icons/term/seamless-pattern/ (WebFetch), https://thenounproject.com/pricing/ (WebFetch)

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