Absolutely, but it’s not that simpel, it’s made to be flexible and handle different logic. Not that it’s magic by any means, it’s fairly simple but you’d want to generate the initials on the server anyway, to acomplish similar results
For example, it takes first letter of first name, and 2 letters from last name if only two names supplied and desired length is 3.
However if 3 names are supplied, it uses a letter from each name.
It’s not magic, but doing it in CSS wouldn’t be easy, I imagine
Absolutely, I've played around with this. There are tons of open source libraries to determine gender from name. Obviously it cannot be 100% correct, but it can provide a guess
I think it's interesting how much thought goes into default avatars, and that it can be used as a marketing tactic. Thanks for providing link to Twitter as well. Guess I'll have to think more about it in the future.