badges/shields
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Concise, consistent, and legible badges in SVG and raster format
11 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 4 stories, 7 comments · first 2016-10-25 · latest 2024-11-30
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…development processes to maintain those integrations with the help of hundreds of collaborators: https://github.com/badges/shields/tree/master/services I've been keeping an eye out for similar shapes of project ever since I noticed this.…
comment by simonw · 2024-11-30 · in Shields is 10 years old (2023) -
…of its tweet text fallback, and the caniusewidgets doesn't offer a png fallback (at first glance). https://github.com/badges/shields uses svg so you can do this without complaining about bandwidth too. Would be funny to include this in an…
comment by hn92726819 · 2022-09-06 · in TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML -
I took a look. The rendering code of shields.io is here: https://github.com/badges/shields/blob/779c1ffaadfcd53ac20b5... text width is computed in preferredWidthOf, which computes the width of the text in 11px Verdana, either normal or…
comment by oefrha · 2022-02-24 · in Show HN: Supershields.io – smart, Lua-powered SVG status badges -
…APIs would be a completely insane idea - but it works great when 300+ people help you out! https://github.com/badges/shields/graphs/contributors
comment by simonw · 2019-11-06 · in Shields.io: Quality metadata badges for open source projects -
…seem to be getting more popular, a manual way to show this information in project readme files: https://github.com/badges/shields
comment by DougBTX · 2019-01-23 · in Our Software Dependency Problem -
…- https://img.shields.io/badge/rate-limited-red.svg The API is open source: https://github.com/badges/shields I started the project although it's maintained by Thaddée Tyl and Paul Melnikow these days. Here's a bit of backstory: http:
comment by olivierlacan · 2018-03-08 · in Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub account suspended -
Nice! Can I use it? (If you want, you can also submit a patch in https://github.com/badges/shields. )
comment by espadrine · 2016-12-09 · in Saving the Internet 2000TB a Day: Fixing Font Awesome’s Fonts