README Badge Generator
Generate shields.io-compatible badges for GitHub READMEs — pick style, color, and copy Markdown.
Presets
Markdown
HTML
<img alt="build" src="https://img.shields.io/badge/build-passing-brightgreen?style=flat">
URL
https://img.shields.io/badge/build-passing-brightgreen?style=flat
How shields.io badges work
Shields.io generates SVG badge images from a URL pattern:https://img.shields.io/badge/<left>-<right>-<color>. Hyphens in the text are escaped as double-hyphens (--), underscores as double-underscores (__), and spaces as underscores. Colors can be named (brightgreen, blue, red, yellow, orange, lightgrey) or hex codes without the #.
For Markdown help, try the Markdown Converter.
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