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Re:Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials by donohoe on Saturday October 07, 2017 @07:12AM (#15423321)
That was the approach I took to same probelm for users on an annotation service.

This seems nice but still overkill.

Re:Show HN: Generate avatars from user initials by lasserafn on Saturday October 07, 2017 @07:15AM (#15423327)
Yeah, it absolutely is (ui-avatars). I think its a neat little think to act as fallback for gravatar, but I totally agree that it's overkill