mdiamondstone

authorGrid is a sidebar widget that displays the avatar of any author on your blog with at least one published post in grid form. You 
can set how large the avatar should be, how many columns (or rows) you’d like in the grid, and the display title of the widget.

Author Grid

Sidebar widget that displays the avatar of all of the authors on your blog in grid form.

echo1consulting

Simple jQuery plugin to make gmail like text avatars for profile pictures. These avatars can be scaled up to any size as they are SVG based.
This is an integration of the initial.js jquery plugin (http://judelicio.us/initial.js/). This plugin contains hooks for extensibility, and modifications of avatars.
The avatar will be the first initial of the username. Colors are set by default, but can be manipulated using built-in hooks.

Echo1 Consulting – Inital JS Avatar

Simple jQuery plugin to make gmail like text avatars for profile pictures. These avatars can be scaled up to any size as they are SVG based.

Author Grid vs Echo1 Consulting – Inital JS Avatar