Glyphs

Glyphs is a minimal abstract vector avatar style that pairs a flat shoulder silhouette with a unique glyph-like hat or headpiece inside a soft tinted circle. Generate identity-light SVG profile icons that work well as placeholders in user lists and chat sidebars.

Preview

Open Playground

LICENSE

This avatar style is a remix of: Abstract Avatars for All Creative Profile Use by Matt Houser, licensed under CC BY 4.0. See details for more information.

Usage

Use this URL to request this avatar style via our HTTP API.

https://api.dicebear.com/10.x/glyphs/svg

You can use the URL directly as image source.

<img
  src="https://api.dicebear.com/10.x/glyphs/svg"
  alt="avatar"
/>

See HTTP-API docs for more information.

First install the required packages via npm:

npm install @dicebear/core @dicebear/styles --save

Then you can create this avatar as follows:

import { Style, Avatar } from '@dicebear/core';
import definition from '@dicebear/styles/glyphs.json' with { type: 'json' };

const style = new Style(definition);
const avatar = new Avatar(style, {
  // ... options
});

const svg = avatar.toString();

See JS docs for more information.

First install the required packages via Composer:

composer require dicebear/core dicebear/styles

Then you can create this avatar as follows:

<?php

use Composer\InstalledVersions;
use DiceBear\Style;
use DiceBear\Avatar;

$basePath = InstalledVersions::getInstallPath('dicebear/styles');
$definition = json_decode(file_get_contents($basePath . '/src/glyphs.json'), true);

$style = new Style($definition);
$avatar = new Avatar($style, [
  // ... options
]);

$svg = (string) $avatar;

See PHP docs for more information.

First install the required packages via pip:

pip install dicebear-core dicebear-styles

Then you can create this avatar as follows:

import json
from importlib.resources import files

from dicebear import Avatar, Style

definition = json.loads(
    files("dicebear_styles").joinpath("glyphs.json").read_text("utf-8")
)

style = Style(definition)
avatar = Avatar(style, {
    # ... options
})

svg = avatar.to_string()

See Python docs for more information.

First add the required crates via Cargo:

cargo add dicebear-core serde_json
cargo add dicebear-styles --features glyphs

Then you can create this avatar as follows:

use dicebear_core::{Avatar, Style};
use serde_json::json;

let style = Style::from_str(dicebear_styles::GLYPHS)?;
let avatar = Avatar::new(&style, json!({
  // ... options
}))?;

let svg = avatar.to_svg();

See Rust docs for more information.

First add the required modules with go get:

go get github.com/dicebear/dicebear-go/v10
go get github.com/dicebear/styles/v10

Then you can create this avatar as follows:

import (
	dicebear "github.com/dicebear/dicebear-go/v10"
	"github.com/dicebear/styles/v10"
)

style, _ := dicebear.NewStyle([]byte(styles.Glyphs))
avatar, _ := dicebear.NewAvatar(style, map[string]any{
	// ... options
})

svg := avatar.SVG()

See Go docs for more information.

First install the CLI package via npm:

npm install --global dicebear

Then you can create this avatar as follows:

dicebear glyphs

See CLI docs for more information.

Options

Details

Naming

Definition Import	import definition from '@dicebear/styles/glyphs.json' with { type: 'json' };
CLI	dicebear glyphs
HTTP-API	https://api.dicebear.com/10.x/glyphs/svg
Definition	https://cdn.hopjs.net/npm/@dicebear/styles@10.1.0/dist/glyphs.min.json

Source

Title	Abstract Avatars for All Creative Profile Use
Creator	Matt Houser
Website	https://x.com/mattkhouser
License	CC BY 4.0
Source	https://www.figma.com/community/file/1249154526125777853