Boring Avatars Avatar Generator

6 geometric themes: marble, beam, pixel, sunset, ring, bauhaus

MIT SVG npm runs locally

Ready-to-use samples

Generated with the Boring Avatars package, served from this site.

felix
aneka
jasper
luna
milo
sage
nova
remy

Run Boring Avatars in your project

Boring Avatars' hosted preview endpoint (source.boringavatars.com) is no longer live. Install the npm package to render its geometric themes, or try the closest URL-driven look below.

GitHub repo Project page

Want a live playground instead?

DiceBear has a hosted URL API with a similar look, so you can preview and download without installing anything.

Open DiceBear playground Avataaars UI Avatars Robohash

Usage

npm

npm i boring-avatars

import Avatar from 'boring-avatars';

<Avatar
  size={80}
  name="felix"
  variant="marble"
  colors={['#264653', '#2a9d8f', '#e9c46a', '#f4a261', '#e76f51']}
/>

React

import Avatar from 'boring-avatars';

function UserAvatar({ name }: { name: string }) {
  return <Avatar size={40} name={name} variant="beam" square />;
}

About Boring Avatars

Lightweight React component that generates SVG avatars from a name seed using six minimal geometric themes. Zero external API calls, fully client-side, and tiny in bundle size. Ideal when you want personality without visual complexity.

Best for: Minimal UI systems, comment threads, team directories

License: MIT
Output: SVG
Deterministic: Yes
Hosted API: No
Package: boring-avatars
Links: Docs GitHub

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is Boring Avatars free to use commercially?

Boring Avatars is licensed under MIT. This is a permissive license: you can use it in commercial projects with no royalties, though MIT requires keeping the license notice.

What output formats does Boring Avatars support?

Boring Avatars generates avatars as SVG. SVG output scales to any size without quality loss, useful for retina displays and print.

Is there a hosted Boring Avatars API?

No. Boring Avatars ships as an npm package that renders locally, there is no hosted HTTP endpoint to call. The samples on this page were generated with that package.

Does the same seed always produce the same Boring Avatars avatar?

Yes. Boring Avatars is fully deterministic: the same seed value always renders the identical avatar, so you never need to store the generated image.