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Dev tools · October 7, 2017

UI Avatars

Generate avatars with initials from names

UI Avatars launched on October 7, 2017 with 10 votes, #1,027 of 3,169 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

What it does

UI Avatars has a simple-to-use API with no limiting or login. No usage tracking and no information is stored. The final images are cached, but nothing else. Just write name or surname, or both.

Generate image avatars with user initials for free, just specify name. No limits or registration.

UI Avatars has a simple-to-use API with no limiting or login. No usage tracking and no information is stored. The final images are cached, but nothing else. Just write name or surname, or both. All requests returns a image stream to be used directly in a <img/> tag. Avoid passing color as it will be automatically set between black and white. Avatar image size in pixels. Between: 16 and 512. Default: 64 Font size in percentage of size . Between 0.1 and 1. Default: 0.5 The name used to generate initials. You can specify the initials yourself as well. Default: John Doe Boolean specifying if the returned image should be a circle. Default: false Boolean specifying if the returned letters should…from ui-avatars.com

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