---
category: Display
created: '2019-12-04'
description: Create an initial avatar with CSS
keywords: css avatar
thumbnail: /assets/css-layout/thumbnails/initial-avatar.png
title: Initial avatar
---

## HTML

```html index.html
<div class="initial-avatar">...</div>
```

## CSS

```css styles.css
.initial-avatar {
    /* Center the content */
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;

    /* Colors */
    background-color: #d1d5db;
    color: #fff;

    /* Rounded border */
    border-radius: 50%;
    height: 3rem;
    width: 3rem;
}
```

<Playground>
```css styles.css hidden
body {
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;
}
.initial-avatar {
    /* Center the content */
    align-items: center;
    display: flex;
    justify-content: center;

    /* Colors */
    background-color: #d1d5db;
    color: #fff;

    /* Rounded border */
    border-radius: 50%;
    height: 3rem;
    width: 3rem;
}
```

```html index.html hidden
<div class="initial-avatar">
    PN
</div>
```
</Playground>