Beautify README files with badges

Following the README hype!!!

Not to long ago I discovered an awesome tool for adding badges to your various markdown files.

https://shields.io

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API based badges

Looking at the landing page we can already see a various set of categories:

From their you can navigate and choose a service that interests you for instance:

social --> twitter follow

You can then fully customize basic settings:

Result:

Here are a few possibilities:

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Custom badges

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, shields.io let's you create custom badges

This lets you create everything and anything and even use data urls.

Here are a few possibilities:

For more badges and cool stuff check out https://shields.io

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Burlet Mederic
https://mederic.me
https://twitter.com/crimson_med

Comments

[Keagan Van Rooyen]

I didn't even think of using these in posts 🙈 great article and thanks for the idea

[Médéric Burlet]

You can add them at the bottom for links! it gives some vibrance!