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Leví Arista
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A simple but nice header generator for your Github profile

Overview of My Submission

"Github Profile Header Generator" is a simple but nice header image generator for your Github profile Readme.

Github Profile Header Generator

Submission Category:

Wacky Wildcards

Link to Code on GitHub

GitHub logo leviarista / github-profile-header-generator

A header image generator for your Github profile Readme

Github Profile Header Generator

What is it?

A simple but nice header image generator for your Github profile Readme. Website Link.

How to use it?

  1. Create a nice github header image.
  2. Create your GitHub profile README following this guide.
  3. Upload your header to your profile repo.
  4. Add this line to your README:
    ![Header](./[Your header image])
    Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Examples

Example 1 Example 2 Example 3 Example 4 Example 5

Features list

  • Edit title and subtitle texts.
  • Choose colors for text, background and borders.
  • Set dimensions and padding.
  • Align text and decorations.
  • Change fonts.
  • Set the size and radius of the border.
  • Set background pattern image, its color, size and opacity.
  • Add decorations.
  • Upload your own decoration, octocat or profile pic.
  • Toogle Github dark and light mode.
  • Download image as png.
  • Randomize between predefined themes.

Tech used

Get started

  • npm run dev- starts dev server
  • npm run build - builds for production

Additional Resources / Info

Examples of header images

Example 1

Example 2

Example 3

Example 4

Example 5

Features list

  • Edit title and subtitle texts.
  • Choose colors for text, background and borders.
  • Set dimensions and padding.
  • Align text and decorations.
  • Change fonts.
  • Set the size and radius of the border.
  • Set background pattern image, its color, size and opacity.
  • Add decorations.
  • Toogle Github dark and light mode.
  • Download image as png.

Screenshots

Main tools:
Home: Main

Background tools:
Home: Background

Decorations tools:
Home: Decorations

Github Dark/Light mode:
Home: Light Mode

** I invite you to contribute to this project with ideas/code contributions/etc 😊.

Latest comments (39)

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Nandhakumar Subramanian

Looks great! Thanks for sharing.

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Teodoro Pedro

I appreciate it!

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Nguyen Hoang Linh

great

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Nguyen Hoang Linh

wonderful

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Leví Arista

Thanks!!

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Akin C.

Hello Leví Arista,

thanks for your article!
I made a GitHub header image and I really like it.
Thank you for sharing such a simple but very useful tool in my opinion :D!

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Leví Arista

Hi Akin. Thank you!
Glad you liked it. your header looks great! 👍

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Andrew Baisden

Wow this is a pretty good tool to use.

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Leví Arista

Hey! Thank you so much Andrew 😊

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Govind Kumar

github.com/elngovind - This is Mine!

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Leví Arista

Looks great! 👍

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Yash Chaudhari

Thank u so much....

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Leví Arista

Thank you Yash 👍

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Amrin

this is interesting. I'm gonna create on for my github.
thanks for building this nice tool

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Leví Arista

Cool! Glad you liked it Amrin 😊

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Federico Roman

Hey! Pretty cool, thanks for the info github.com/dashpy/dashpy

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Leví Arista

Thank you so much Fede! 🤙

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Anamika

It's really nice! 👍 👍

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Leví Arista

Thank you Anamika! 😊😊