Boring Avatars

Name: Boring Avatars
Rating: 5.0 (2 reviews)

JavaScript library to generate SVG avatars based on text

5.0•2 reviews•

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JavaScript library to generate SVG avatars based on text

5.0•2 reviews•

54 followers

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Boring avatars is a tiny JavaScript React library that generates custom, SVG-based, round avatars from any username and color palette.

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Launch tags:Design Tools•Emoji•Branding

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Great Idea and wonderful implementation!! Do you also provide some kind of apis to return an avatar? It would be great if you can please provide some access points as well

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5yr ago

Boring Avatars

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Hey @prajjyadav0904 👋, yes, we recently released a service where you can get a random SVG avatars via HTTP. You'll find more information in the README. https://github.com/hihayk/boring...

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5yr ago

This is very cool. Can I use these avatars as default profile pictures for customers that sing up in my platform?

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5yr ago

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@fatosbediu Thank you Fatos! Of course you can :) the library is open source and free to go for that use case (specially those use cases)

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5yr ago

Nice work! Personally, love the beam icons :) Do you have an api that returns an avatar image (maybe in png)? I have an npm package called give-me-an-avatar that returns an avatar from a collection of different services - happy to include yours.

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5yr ago

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Maker

@clydedsouza Thank you Clyde! We have a service that returns the SVG in case you don't want to use the library. https://github.com/hihayk/boring...

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5yr ago

@josep_martins Awesome - will include it in the npm package soon. Thanks for sharing the GitHub link :)

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5yr ago

Love the Beam variable, great work! I will definitely use it on Figma for placeholder avatars. (Maybe a Figma plugin is a possible next step, @josep_martins? :P)

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5yr ago

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Maker

@davtun Thank you David. We have the Figma plugin in mind too

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5yr ago

leerly

Wow, I was just looking for something like this! Is it deterministic? As in, will the resulting image always be the same for the text input? I'd love to use this for default avatars based on a user's email.

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5yr ago

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@sweetheart Hey James 👋, yes, the avatar are generated in a deterministic way. Any email, username or any random text will produce the same output 😊.

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5yr ago

I was just thinking something like this, glad to stumbled here. Sending to our developer @yulafezmem and we will implement this in our projects, it is soo boring to serve empty avatar spaces, and wait for people to upload. Website is nicely executed, when you hover to the gradients, "COPY SVG" reveals at the bottom and you can click and copy the SVG code. OK, but I think we can do this by clicking right on to the gradient circles, without moving the cursor to the bottom each time, and also simple feedback would be nice on top of it "copied". Notable Women is also a nice touch. These things always add value, no matter where they used.

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5yr ago

Boring Avatars

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@yulafezmem @boraoztunc Thank you Bora for all your feedback ✨. Our intended approach, as you mentioned, was to change the way we use the user avatar placeholders in those projects were we don't want to fall into the boring-letter-based avatars libraries 👍

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5yr ago