After your team has signed up for a new SaaS or service, I find it bland when everyone has the same generic, grey avatar. I'm a visual person and find it helpful to distinguish users by colors in their avatars, but many people never change from the default avatar. So I thought to myself, why not generate interesting avatars for users when they sign up.

The result is this little gem. It randomly chooses from a set of backgrounds, colors and head shapes, and put a letter on the generated avatar. This should be enough combinations so the change of users getting the same avatar generated is next to zero. It can produce SVGs or JPEGs, depending on your use case. More styles can be added somewhat easily.

I'm already using it for https://magicell.com/ and haven't seen any duplicates.

I am very open to feedback on this so please let me know what you think.

How is the background chosen? Can it be generated from a hash like Gravatar?

Also, I get an error when I go to magicell.