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https://github.com/drhus/awesome-identicons

A curated list of "Visual Hashs" (Identicon, Avatar, Fractal, RandomArt and general Hash Visualization)
https://github.com/drhus/awesome-identicons

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A curated list of "Visual Hashs" (Identicon, Avatar, Fractal, RandomArt and general Hash Visualization)

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# Awesome Identicon [![Awesome](https://awesome.re/badge.svg)](https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome)



> A curated list of Identicons-like (Avatars, Identicons, and Hash Visualization) original ideas and libraries, *sorted by date of appearance*



## RandomArt

![RandomArt by Alexander von Gernler — 2008,](media/RandomArt_OpenSSH.png) 



[The drunken bishop](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.424.4771&rep=rep1&type=pdf) algorithm for [OpenSSH](https://www.openssh.com/txt/release-5.1) RandomArt, by Alexander von Gernler — 2008, *based on random art concept of [Perrig and Song paper](https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~adrian/projects/validation/validation.pdf "Hash Visualization: a New Technique to improve Real-World Security") — 1999*



## Identicon

![Identicon by Don Park — 2007](media/Identicon_Don-Park.png)



[Identicon](https://github.com/donpark/identicon), by [Don Park](https://github.com/donpark) — 2007



## MonsterID

![MonsterID by Andreas Gohr — 2007](media/MonsterID_Andreas-Gohr.png)



[MonsterID](https://github.com/splitbrain/monsterID), by [Andreas Gohr](https://github.com/splitbrain) — 2007



## Wavatars

![](media/Wavatars_Shamus-Young.png)



[Wavatars](http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1462), by [Shamus Young](https://github.com/ShamusYoung) —  2007



## WP-Identicon

![](media/wp-identicon_Scott-Sherrill-Mix.png)



[WP-Identicon](http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/blogger/wp_identicon/), by [Scott Sherrill-Mix](https://github.com/sherrillmix) —  2007



## Retro

![](media/retro.png)



[Retro](), by Gravatar —  2010? 



## Vash

![Vash, by Terrence Cole — 2011](media/Vash_Terrence-Cole.png)



[Vash](https://github.com/thevash/vash), by Terrence Cole —  2011



## RoboHash

![](media/RoboHash_Colin-Davis.png)



[RoboHash](https://github.com/e1ven/Robohash), by [Colin Davis](https://github.com/e1ven)  —  2011



## Stitchies

![Stitchy, by Martin Schneider — 2012](media/Stitchy_Martin-Schneider.png)



[Stitchy](https://github.com/craftoid/stitchies-p5), by [Martin Schneider](https://github.com/craftoid) — 2012



## Github Identicon

![](media/Github-Identicon_Jason-Long.png)



[Github Identicon](http://identicon.net/), by [Jason Long](https://github.com/jasonlong) — 2013



## Bubble

![Bubble Identicons, by Doug Akridge — 2014](media/bubble-identicon_Doug-Akridge.png)



[Bubble Identicons](https://github.com/dakridge/identicon), by [Doug Akridge](https://github.com/dakridge) — 2014



## Jdenticon

![jdenticon, by Daniel Mester Pirttijärvi — 2014](media/jdenticon_Daniel-Mester-Pirttijarvi.png)



 [jdenticon](https://github.com/dmester/jdenticon), by [Daniel Mester Pirttijärvi](https://github.com/dmester) — 2014



## Blockies

![blockies by Alex Van de Sande — 2014](media/Blockies_Alex-Van-de-Sande.png)



[Blockies](https://github.com/ethereum/blockies), by [Alex Van de Sande](https://github.com/alexvandesande) — 2014



## Adorable Avatars

![Adorable Avatars, by Adorable IO — 2014](media/Adorable-Avatars_Adorable-IO.png)



[Adorable Avatars](https://github.com/adorableio/avatars-api-middleware), by [Jim Remsik](https://github.com/bigtiger)— 2014



## FlatHash

![FlatHash, by Roberto Horta — 2014](media/flathash_Micah-Nordland.png)



[FlatHash](http://flathash.com/), by [Roberto Horta](https://www.linkedin.com/in/bertohorta/) — 2014



## IdentiHeart

![IdentiHeart, by Guillaume Schlipak — 2015](media/IdentiHeart_Guillaume-Schlipak.png)



[IdentiHeart](https://github.com/Schlipak/IdentiHeart), by [Guillaume Schlipak](https://github.com/Schlipak) — 2015



## Florash

![](media/florash_Francois-Lafortune.png)



[Florash](https://github.com/AKRFranko/Florash), by [Francois Lafortune](https://github.com/AKRFranko) — 2015



## Jazzicon

![Jazzicon, by Dan Finlay — 2016](media/Jazzicon_Dan-Finlay.png)



[Jazzicon](https://github.com/danfinlay/jazzicon), by [Dan Finlay](https://github.com/danfinlay) — 2016



## Ringicon

![Ringicon, by Andreas Gohr — 2016](media/Ringicon_Andreas-Gohr.png)



[Ringicon](https://github.com/splitbrain/php-ringicon), by [Andreas Gohr](https://github.com/splitbrain) — 2016



## Circular

![Circular Identicons, by Agni Flechette  —  2017](media/Circular-identicons_Agni-Flechette.png)



[Circular Identicons](https://github.com/ea7ababe/identicon), by [Agni Flechette](https://github.com/ea7ababe)  —  2017



## Gradient

![Gradient Avatars, by Tobias Lins  —  2017](media/Gradient-avatars_Tobias-Lins.png)



[Gradient Avatars](https://github.com/tobiaslins/avatar), by [Tobias Lins](https://github.com/tobiaslins)  —  2017



## HashIcon

![HashIcon, by Richard Schumann — 2018](media/HashIcon_Richard-Schumann.png)



[HashIcon](https://github.com/ETCDEVTeam/hashicon), by [Richard Schumann](https://github.com/scco) — 2018



## Hexicon

![Hexicon, by Jon Van Oast — 2018](media/hexicon_Jon-Van-Oast.png)



[Hexicon](https://github.com/naknomum/hexicon/), by [Jon Van Oast](https://github.com/naknomum) — 2018



## Hydro-Snowflake

![Hydro-Snowflake, by Rawad Ahmad Salhab — 2018](media/Hydro-Snowflake_Rawad-Ahmad-Salhab.png)



[Hydro-Snowflake](https://github.com/cyphercodes96/Hydro-Snowflake-Identicon-Generator), by [Rawad Ahmad Salhab](https://github.com/cyphercodes96) — 2018



## Pictogrify

![Pictogrify, by Lúcio Rubens — 2018](media/Pictogrify_Lucio-Rubens.png)



[Pictogrify](https://github.com/luciorubeens/pictogrify), by [Lúcio Rubens](https://github.com/luciorubeens) — 2018



## monKey 

![monKey, by Amir Hagafny — 2018](media/monKey-Amir-Hagafny.png)



[monKey](http://www.monkeygen.com/), by [Amir Hagafny](https://medium.com/@amirhagafny) — 2018



## Polkadot-Identicon 

![Polkadot-Identicon, by Pokadot — 2018](media/polkadot-identicon_Polkadot.png)



[Polkadot-Identicon](https://github.com/polkadot-js/apps/tree/master/packages/ui-identicon), by [Pokadot](https://polkadot.network/) — 2018



## LifeHash

![LifeHash, by Wolf McNally and Blockchain Commons, 2018](media/LifeHash_Wolf-McNally.png)



[LifeHash](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons/bc-lifehash), by [Wolf McNally](https://github.com/WolfMcNally) and [Blockchain Commons](https://github.com/BlockchainCommons) - 2018



## Solacon

![Solacon, by Jon Van Oast - 2021](media/solacon_Jon-Van-Oast.png)



[Solacon](https://github.com/naknomum/solacon/), by [Jon Van Oast](https://github.com/naknomum) - 2021



# Honorable mention

## QR-Code

![](media/QR-code_Denso-Wave.png)



[QR-code](http://www.qrcode.com/), by [Denso-Wave](https://www.denso-wave.com/) — 1994



## Letter Avatar

*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](https://github.com/ksz2k/letter_avatar), [Letterpic](https://github.com/yakovlevga/letterpic) and [ngletteravatar](https://github.com/uttesh/ngletteravatar)*



![Letter Avatar — 2014](media/First-Letter-Avatars.png)



Letter Avatar — 2014



## Animal Identicon

![](media/animal-identicon.png)



Anonymous animals, by Google docs — 20??



# Contributing



1. Fork it

2. Create your update branch (`git checkout -b my-new-identicon`)

3. Commit your changes (`git commit -am 'Add some identicon'`)

4. Push to the branch (`git push origin my-new-identicon`)

5. Create new Pull Request