> **Source:** [https://faq.remarkbox.com/cb1f36b6-ab5c-11e7-bf44-040140774501/how-do-you-generate-default-avatars](https://faq.remarkbox.com/cb1f36b6-ab5c-11e7-bf44-040140774501/how-do-you-generate-default-avatars) > **Snapshot:** 2026-06-18T16:48:58Z > **Generator:** Remarkbox `3053704` > > *This is a thread snapshot. The living document lives at the source URI above — it may have been edited, extended, or replied-to since.*

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I take the first two letters of the [randomly generated username](https://faq.remarkbox.com/537e41bc-a1f5-11e7-9e83-040140774501/why-is-my-username-random-letters-and-numbers){target="_blank"} and use those as the initials. If you log into Remarkbox you may set your username and optionally enable Gravatar from the [user settings](https://faq.remarkbox.com/u/settings){target="_blank"} page. The logic comes from [invatar](https://github.com/russellballestrini/invatar){rel="nofollow" target="_blank"} which I pulled into my codebase so that I may inline embed the SVG into an HTML `img` tag. All you have to do is \"encode\" or \"quote\" the SVG. For example: `

` --- **Source:** [https://faq.remarkbox.com/cb1f36b6-ab5c-11e7-bf44-040140774501/how-do-you-generate-default-avatars](https://faq.remarkbox.com/cb1f36b6-ab5c-11e7-bf44-040140774501/how-do-you-generate-default-avatars) **Snapshot:** 2026-06-18T16:48:58Z **Generator:** Remarkbox `3053704`