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A curated collection of awesome things related to status badges.

While this list is maintained by Paul Melnikow from the Shields core team, it includes Shields-related and non-Shields-related resources.

Dynamic badge services

Badge tools

Raster badges

SVG badges are encouraged because they render better on Retina displays and scale up beautifully. However in a few environments, such as Slack and HTML email, SVG images won't render, so PNG badges are preferred. Shields offers raster badges through its raster server, raster.shields.io.

Static badges

Static badge collections

Dynamic data providers

Dynamic data providers are third parties who publish data APIs which can be used to back one of the dynamic badge services:

Badge-rendering software

Icons

Academic articles

Historical articles

Talks

Hosting your own badge service

Achievement badges