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Dev tools · January 8, 2023

Boringer Avatars

Procedurally generated avatars for your JS applications

Boringer Avatars launched on January 8, 2023 with 168 votes, #214 of 3,901 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

I ported boringavatars.com to several frameworks using Mitosis from builder.io. All design work goes to Boring Designers. It supports Angular, Qwik, React, Solid, Svelte, Vue2, and Vue3. Overall, it was a fun process.

Boringer Avatars is a tiny JS library that generates custom, SVG-based avatars from any username and color palette and supporting many different frameworks.

Give your app some flair instead of using some generic user icon from some icon library. Use it in your frontend framework offrom cmgriffing.github.io

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