# laravolt/avatar

Plug n play avatar, turn name, email, and any other string into beautiful avatar (or gravatar), effortless.

Repository: https://github.com/laravolt/avatar
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/avatar
Language: PHP
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: avatar, php, laravel-package, php-library, gravatar
Last push: 2026-08-06T15:54:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 92/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 96, release rhythm 82, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3978, "days_push": 27, "days_rel": 43, "gap_med": 43.5, "n_releases_24m": 11}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1981, forks 186 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:01.800298+00:00)

## What it is
A PHP/Laravel package that generates avatar images from names, emails, or arbitrary strings, producing initials-based avatars as base64, PNG, JPG, SVG, or Gravatar URLs. It works out of the box with Laravel via auto-discovery and can also be used in any PHP project.

## Use cases
- generate initials avatars for users in a Laravel app
- turn a user's name into a profile picture automatically
- fall back to generated avatars when users have no photo
- generate gravatar URLs from email addresses
- output avatars as base64 data URIs for inline images
- create SVG avatars for crisp rendering at any size

## When to choose
- you need plug-and-play avatar generation in Laravel or plain PHP
- you want initials-based avatars without external services
- you need multiple output formats (base64, file, SVG, Gravatar)

## When to avoid
- you need photo uploads and storage rather than generated avatars
- your stack is not PHP
- you need highly customized illustrated or 3D avatars

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: image-processing, ui-components
- domain: web-development, frontend
- platform: php
- tags: avatar-generation, initials-avatar, gravatar, laravel-package, svg, php, web-server

## Member repositories
- laravolt/avatar (main) score 92

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.800298+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:58.698214+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/laravolt/avatar (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.800298+00:00, sha 197265b3fb02)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.