Boring avatars

Boring avatars is an open source React library and a subscription-based service that generates unique SVG-based user profile avatars from usernames, emails or any random strings.

Install

npm install boring-avatars

Usage

import Avatar from 'boring-avatars';

<Avatar name="Maria Mitchell" />;

Props

Prop	Type	Default
size	number or string	40px
square	boolean	false
title	boolean	false
name	string	Clara Barton
variant	oneOf: marble, beam, pixel,sunset, ring, bauhaus	marble
colors	array	['#92A1C6', '#146A7C', '#F0AB3D', '#C271B4', '#C20D90']

Name

The name prop is used to generate the avatar. It can be the username, email or any random string.

<Avatar name="Maria Mitchell"/>

Variant

The variant prop is used to change the theme of the avatar. The available variants are: marble, beam, pixel, sunset, ring and bauhaus.

<Avatar name="Alice Paul" variant="beam"/>

Size

The size prop is used to change the size of the avatar.

<Avatar name="Ada Lovelace" size={88}/>

Colors

The colors prop is used to change the color palette of the avatar.

<Avatar name="Grace Hopper" colors={["#fb6900", "#f63700", "#004853", "#007e80", "#00b9bd"]}/>

Square

The square prop is used to make the avatar square.

<Avatar name="Helen Keller" square/>

API service

If you need to generate avatars on a large scale or if you just want to avoid using the React library, we offer a subscription plan for our API service.

Gumroad subscription.

Sponsors

Boring avatars is generously sponsored by TestMu AI.

TestMu AI (formerly LambdaTest) is the world's first full-stack agentic AI quality engineering platform. Autonomous AI agents plan, author, execute, analyze, and optimize tests with humans in the loop, across 3,000+ browser/OS combinations and 10,000+ real devices. Trusted by 18,000+ enterprises including Microsoft, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Vimeo.

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