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Custom Icon Badges

Allows users to more easily use Octicons and their own icons and logos on shields.io badges.

⚡ How to use

Get a badge URL from shields.io.
Replace img.shields.io with custom-icon-badges.demolab.com
Use any available slug as the logo query parameter or upload your own.

https://custom-icon-badges.demolab.com/badge/custom-badge-blue.svg?logo=paintbrush&logoColor=white

Preview:

You're done! Use the image URL in your HTML or markdown! Star this repo if you find it useful! ⭐

🖼️ Existing logos

The following are examples of existing icons and logos that are already available.

Simple Icons

Over 2,000 brand icons from Simple Icons are already supported by shields.io.

You can find a list of slugs for each brand here.

Octicons

All 250+ Octicons from GitHub are supported by Custom Icon Badges.

Slug	Example
`issue-opened`
`repo-forked`
`star`
`git-commit`
`repo`
`git-pull-request`
`heart`
`mail`
More Octicons	View all ⇨

Feather Icons

All 250+ Feather Icons are supported by Custom Icon Badges.

Note: To use Feather Icons, you must use add the query parameter logoSource=feather to the URL in addition to the logo parameter.

Slug	Example
`activity`
`alert-triangle`
`award`
`bar-chart`
`box`
`camera`
`cast`
`command`
`dollar-sign`
`download-cloud`
`upload-cloud`
`tv`
`youtube`
More Feather Icons	View all ⇨

Miscellaneous





Add your own!

➕ Adding a new logo

Upload new icons using the demo site!

The file type can be SVG, PNG, etc. but only SVG format supports the logoColor parameter for overriding the color of the logo.

If you think your icon is useful to others, feel free to open a PR to add it to the README above!

Demo site: https://custom-icon-badges.demolab.com

🚀 Example Usage

Click to get the URL!

🖥️ Using a Different Badge Host

By default, fetching a badge from Custom Icon Badges will use img.shields.io as the badge host.

You can set the host parameter to one of the following to override the hostname of the badge URL:

If you would like to use a different badge host, fork and modify this repository. Create a PR if it may be useful to others.

🤗 Contributing

We welcome contributions!

Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

📤 Deploying it on your own

Deploying on your own is optional. See the steps below.

<details> <summary>Deploy to Heroku</summary>

Sign in to Heroku or create a new account at https://heroku.com
Click the Deploy button below

Add the URL of a Mongo database as the DB_URL config var. The database should have a collection called icons. See getting started for more info on setting up a free Mongo Atlas database.

Click "Deploy App" at the end of the form
Once the app is deployed, you can use <your-app-name>.herokuapp.com in place of custom-icon-badges.demolab.com

</details>

💬 Questions?

Feel free to open an issue.

🤩 Support

💙 If you like this project, give it a ⭐ and share it with friends!