License & credits
Every icon in IconVault is sourced from the open-source OpenMoji v15 dataset and is redistributed here under the original license, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. CC BY-SA 4.0 permits both commercial and non-commercial use as long as you (a) credit OpenMoji as the original artwork source, and (b) release any derivative works under the same license.
Attribution
The minimum attribution requirement is a credit line that includes the words “OpenMoji” and a link back to openmoji.org. A simple example you can paste into your blog footer or sidebar:
Icons by OpenMoji · License: CC BY-SA 4.0
What you can do
- Use the icons in commercial blog posts, newsletters and printables.
- Recolour, resize, crop and remix the icons.
- Use the icons in YouTube thumbnails, podcast covers and social tiles.
- Embed the icons in physical merchandise, signage and printed publications.
What you cannot do
- Sublicense the icons under a different license that removes the ShareAlike requirement.
- Imply that OpenMoji or IconVault endorses your project.
- Strip the attribution credit from a derivative collection.
About IconVault's contribution
The artwork is OpenMoji's. IconVault adds the editorial framing — niche classification, sub-collections, blogger-focused use cases, tag pages, search and individual detail pages with at least 300 words of original copy. That editorial layer is also released under CC BY-SA 4.0 to keep the entire site freely usable.
If you have specific questions about license edge cases (large-scale merchandise, derivative emoji fonts, broadcast use, etc.), please reach out and we will point you to the right OpenMoji resource. We are not lawyers and the OpenMoji team is the canonical source on edge cases.