avatar icon generator

A simple avatar generator script for Node.js (on npm).

install and usage

npm i avatar-icon

import/require

import avatarIcon from 'avatar-icon'
// const avatarIcon = require('avatar-icon')

dataURL

let dataURL = avatarIcon()

// <img src={{dataURL}} alt="">

image file

import fs from 'fs'
// const fs = require('fs')

let buffer = avatarIcon({
  returnType: 'buffer'
})

fs.writeFileSync('./icon.png', buffer)

options and defaults

let icon = avatarIcon({
  size            : 72,   // px
  density         : 10,   // max amount of shapes in one row
  colorRange      : 12,   // amount of different colors
  brightness      : 40,   // make it bright: start at 40 from 255 colors
  contrast        : 50,   // %, take similar colors
  backgroundColor : '',   // #hex or empty
  fillRatio       : 60,   // %, some white space
  rectangleRatio  : 60,   // %, ratio of rectangles
  triangleRatio   : 40,   // %, ratio of triangles
  circleRatio     : 0,    // %, ratio of circles
  returnType      : '',   // default dataURL || 'buffer'
});