ui-avatars

Nice idea! What surprised me most: It is also very well executed, with a sane and simple API, good performance considerations, and it fits its purpose almost perfectly. Having…

I love you for creating this.

Two of my favorite avatar generators: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article391/cat-avatar-generator the furry version of https://robohash.org/

Woah, Robohash is 6 years old now, time goes so fast... https://robohash.org/

Nice idea. As one wrote, this can easily done with one line of JS but having this as an web API which returns an image file is definitely neat. However, I see a privacy issue…

If you use only the initials, you can cut or fake the other letters since they're ignored anyway. Not 100% privacy but better than sending the full name

For web this is done with 1 line of Javascript and a div with rounded borders, really ``` const initials = name.split(' ').map((n) => n.substr(0,1)).slice(0,2).join('') <div…

SVG is awesome... but this is a basic enough subset of SVG that SVG is unwarranted. CSS will do this just fine (and any browser capable of displaying this SVG can probably…

I don't understand why one would prefer an API to a CSS for this? I'm not even saying don't add the dependency - why should this project be an API instead of some CSS that I…

Cool to see thai on the header example. However the results doesn't really make sense, for example this "name" โจ เคน (Jo Keen) has the first letters of each word จ (j) and ค (k)…

Note that the "take the first codepoint" approach doesn't work for all languages. Take Hindi for example. This is a name: ``` प्रेरणा 'preraṇa' ``` The convention for initials…

Brilliant - thanks for this. Also, would be a nice feature to have the colours randomise themselves as an option, so that I could have different coloured avatars on my people…

I'd say random is better than generated from initials, to avoid two persons with same initials having the same avatar! Random with font color depending on background color (so…

Why don't you rather provide a service which generates more complex avatars such as those from Github[1] or Slack. Your API consumer sends some unique string (user-id, hashed…

No Chinese? https://ui-avatars.com/api/?name=马云

Nice service - I was looking for something like this to generate default avatars for our SaaS app recently. How does it handle middle names? i.e., does "John Arthur Smith" still…

Nice service - I was looking for something like this to generate default avatars for our SaaS app recently. How does it handle middle names? i.e., does "John Arthur Smith" still…

Ut stores the avatars on the server, cached by all parameters (not the name, but the generated initials) to avoid generating them again. Also some response headers are set to ask…

Two of my favorite avatar generators: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article391/cat-avatar-generator the furry version of https://robohash.org/

Haha, they're so great! There's also this one: http://avatars.adorable.io

I like using http://avatars.adorable.io/

I pulled invatar (https://github.com/Bekt/invatar) into my code base for Remarkbox (https://www.remarkbox.com) invatar generates SVG and the way I use it is slightly different, I…

There's also this: https://github.com/tobiaslins/avatar