boring-avatars vs hashicon

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

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Generates a beautiful representation of any hash. (by emeraldpay)

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boring-avatars		hashicon
	Project
5	Mentions	2
5,418	Stars	187
1.1%	Growth	0.5%
4.9	Activity	2.7
28 days ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	Apache License 2.0

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boring-avatars

Posts with mentions or reviews of boring-avatars. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-31.

Boringavatars.com is down, 402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Dec 2022

Discussion on GitHub: https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-avatars/issues/57
Third-party deployment of the site: https://www.boringavatar.com/ (without the 's')
A little React library to replace your boring fallback avatars
1 project | /r/programming | 1 Jun 2021
🧢 Stefan's Web Weekly #21
4 projects | dev.to | 31 May 2021

boringdesigners/boring-avatars – A JavaScript React library that generates custom, SVG-based, round avatars from any username and color palette.
Boring avatars: a tiny JavaScript React library generating custom SVG avatars
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 30 May 2021
Boring Avatars – react library to generate custom avatars
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2021

It creates SVGs using React[1], it would be nontrivial to support another view library with this design and if you're going to support only one at initial release React is probably the most popular bet.
[1]: https://github.com/boringdesigners/boring-avatars/blob/maste...

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Posts with mentions or reviews of hashicon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-28.

Questions about the cool account icons (Phoenix Wallet)
1 project | /r/Signum | 30 Oct 2021

Phoenix uses hashicon - https://github.com/emeraldpay/hashicon
Boring Avatars – react library to generate custom avatars
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 28 May 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing boring-avatars and hashicon you can also consider the following projects:

dicebear - DiceBear is an avatar library for designers and developers. 🌍

og-image - Open Graph Image as a Service - generate cards for Twitter, Facebook, Slack, etc

tailwind-figma - FlowBite is a free and open-source set of UI components and pages in Figma built for Tailwind CSS

static-tweet

minidenticons - Super lightweight SVG identicon (pixelated avatar) generator

unicornify - Took the liberty to put this wonderful unicorn generation script on GitHub :)

utterances - :crystal_ball: A lightweight comments widget built on GitHub issues

react-nice-avatar - react library for generating avatar

react-avatar-editor - Small avatar & profile picture component. Resize and crop uploaded images using a intuitive user interface.

stylegan2-pytorch - Simplest working implementation of Stylegan2, state of the art generative adversarial network, in Pytorch. Enabling everyone to experience disentanglement