[IgorPartola]

Not to hijack this (I have zero affiliation with this project), but RoboHash has been my absolute favorite version of this: https://robohash.org/

[postalrat]

Not to hijack robohash. But hashicon is better:

https://github.com/emeraldpay/hashicon

https://schumanncombo.com/hashicon

[randomhodler84]

I don’t know man, robots are much cooler than color boxes. I think the robots win here.

[FreakyT]

Agreed -- the problem with most dynamic avatar generators is that all the avatars look basically visually indistinguishable, which pretty much defeats their purpose. I prefer ones like Wavatar and Robohash because they generate unique looking avatars for each user with minimal visual collisions.

[fouc]

I recognize robohash from gravatar mainly.

https://en.gravatar.com/site/implement/images/

Gravatar provides 5 fallback custom avatars:

  identicon: a geometric pattern based on an email hash
  monsterid: a generated 'monster' with different colors, faces, etc
  wavatar: generated faces with differing features and backgrounds
  retro: awesome generated, 8-bit arcade-style pixelated faces
  robohash: a generated robot with different colors, faces, et