A curated list of Identicons-like (Avatars, Identicons, and Hash Visualization) original ideas and libraries, sorted by date of appearance
The drunken bishop algorithm for OpenSSH RandomArt, by Alexander von Gernler — 2008, based on random art concept of Perrig and Song paper — 1999
MonsterID, by Andreas Gohr — 2007
Wavatars, by Shamus Young — 2007
WP-Identicon, by Scott Sherrill-Mix — 2007
Retro, by Gravatar — 2010?
Vash, by Terrence Cole — 2011
RoboHash, by Colin Davis — 2011
Stitchy, by Martin Schneider — 2012
Moji, by Michael Luggen — 2012
Github Identicon, by Jason Long — 2013
Bubble Identicons, by Doug Akridge — 2014
jdenticon, by Daniel Mester Pirttijärvi — 2014
Blockies, by Alex Van de Sande — 2014
Adorable Avatars, by Jim Remsik— 2014
FlatHash, by Roberto Horta — 2014
IdentiHeart, by Guillaume Schlipak — 2015
Florash, by Francois Lafortune — 2015
Jazzicon, by Dan Finlay — 2016
Ringicon, by Andreas Gohr — 2016
Circular Identicons, by Agni Flechette — 2017
Gradient Avatars, by Tobias Lins — 2017
Snowflakes, by Raph Levien — 2018
ShapeAddress (MomCode), by Husam Abboud — 2018
HashIcon, by Richard Schumann — 2018
Hexicon, by Jon Van Oast — 2018
Hydro-Snowflake, by Rawad Ahmad Salhab — 2018
Pictogrify, by Lúcio Rubens — 2018
monKey, by Amir Hagafny — 2018
Polkadot-Identicon, by Pokadot — 2018
LifeHash, by Wolf McNally and Blockchain Commons - 2018
Solacon, by Jon Van Oast - 2021
CircIdenticon by Joseph E. Van Riper - 2026
Hashvatars, by François Best – 2021
QR-code, by Denso-Wave — 1994
It’s not clear who come first with the First Letter & Initials Avatars concept, (widely used by Google GMail) but there are several open source libraries from 2014, such as LetterAvatar, Letterpic and ngletteravatar
Letter Avatar — 2014
Anonymous animals, by Google docs — 20??
- Fork it
- Create your update branch (
git checkout -b my-new-identicon) - Commit your changes (
git commit -am 'Add some identicon') - Push to the branch (
git push origin my-new-identicon) - Create new Pull Request