Transparent background

[jvherck]

The possibilities with this api are truly amazing! However it would be very handy and cool to have an option for a transparent background. That way we could easily change background too after downloading the image from the link, or just have a cool transparent avatar.

Much appreciation for your time on this project and I hope this would be implemented :)

[FlorianKoerner]

Hi @jvherck.

Actually, the background of almost all avatars is transparent by default. Do you have an example?

[jvherck]

The background here is white, which is the default I think. Is there a way to make the background transparent? I've made the background transparent by replacing every pixel with a certain color by an RGBA pixel that's transparent, however it also makes pixels in the avatar itself transparent if it's got the same color. So it would be a great asset to have the possibility to put transparent as backgroundColor in the API url.

[jvherck]

Wait, I always see a white background even if I open it up, and I see in the svg file code that it has a white background, yet now on GitHub I see this is transparent... however on Discord it does show a white background. This is kind of confusing for me...

[FlorianKoerner]

The API outputs the avatars with transparent background - no matter if SVG or PNG.

https://codepen.io/FlorianKoerner/pen/yLpLyyL

GitHub

GitHub sets a white background via CSS - but your uploaded image actually has a transparent background as well.

When I change the color in the CSS,...

Discord

When I share a link to the API in Discord, the background is also transparent.

Even if I upload your example.

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So, unfortunately, I can't reproduce your problem.

[jvherck]

I didn't it was possible to just change backgrounds of an png like that, I thought it's just an image. I guess it's a cool special feature of png that I didn't know of yet and that would be the reason why sometimes it's transparent and sometimes not.
Thank you for your extensive and clear answer! 😄