genidicon

an identicon is a visual representation of a hash value, usually of a unique user ID, that uses the form of an avatar to quickly identify the user, while protecting the user's privacy.

genidicon is a simple CLI tool written in gleam. it takes an input string and uses it to generate an identicon! it's a simple project that glues together other packages from the gleam ecosystem:

• clad, the command-line argument decoder
• glidicon does the heavy lifting of encoding our text to an image
• simplifile handles file I/O

usage

$ genidicon --input <STRING>

your identicon will be saved to the current directory as <STRING>.png

install

gleam run -m gleescript
cp ./genidicon <YOUR_PATH>

disclaimer

i made this to satisfy my own itch to learn gleam and explore its ecosystem. i may or may not decide to flesh this project out with more features later!