Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service
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Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service
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Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service
#2Could be useful to have an option to specify adult/child/all ages. I mean, I know they're placeholders. But it would seem odd to see children in our staging app since I don't think many children are involved in B2B sales.
Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service
#3Nice! I love the unique ID option. Makes it easy to give some fake users for prototypes a consistent identity.
Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service
#4Could be useful to have an option to specify adult/child/all ages. I mean, I know they're placeholders. But it would seem odd to see children in our staging app since I don't think many children are involved in B2B sales.
It would also be nice if there were an option to specify male or female. I could see this being useful for randomly generating some users for prototypes and it would be nice if it were possible to have the name more consistent with the photo.
Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service
#5Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)
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#6CC0 is a Creative Commons Licence: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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#7Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)
What does that have to do with placeholders? Lorem Ipsum doesn't accurately represent all the types of things people write.
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#8Neat! I like how you can get the same placeholder by referencing its ID.
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#9Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)
What does that have to do with placeholders? Lorem Ipsum doesn't accurately represent all the types of things people write.
No, but the point of Lorem Ipsum is it blends into the page reasonably, real text or not. If you were writing e.g. a template for a piece of forum software which doesn't use real names, the vast majority of people use avatars that are not pictures of faces, and if you wound up designing around face pictures (bright, certain colour tones, etc etc), your design might clash slightly with what people actually use.
Re: Show HN: CC0 Avatar placeholder service
#10Not everybody uses a photo of a face for an avatar. :)
What does that have to do with placeholders? Lorem Ipsum doesn't accurately represent all the types of things people write.
Right, which is why designers in fact often turn to placeholder text closer to English (or their language).
I only felt like pointing that out.