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introduce a flat badge #107
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Just so you can have my point of view, the reason I made this little project, is because the current style of any of the status badges I see on GitHub do not fit GitHub's style at all, and yet this is the place where they'll be most often seen. My point is not to make all of them flat, but maybe at least try to make them fit in and not stand out in a GitHub README. |
@olivierlacan at travis-ci/travis-ci#630 (comment) :
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Perhaps flat vs gradient could simply be a "style" option parameter that defaults to the current gradient style? I think the added value of Shield.io badges are that they're standardized in certain aspects like information contained within, sizing, etc... flat vs gradients is in my opinion the same as a blue vs green vs red discussion. |
+1 I support the no gradient all flat style by param option, there's no point in saying the gradient makes for a better button, it this was true the 3d border will still be around and is not, besides every GH user knows what the badges are for these days. |
+1 on providing this option. The gradient looks kinda silly when you have multiple badges side-by-side, and is far less legible (though not in the PNGs which started this thread, due to their poor antialiasing) I think redesigning the badges every so often to fit the design of the time would be wise: otherwise we risk looking horribly outdated. Perhaps decouple the badge from the design somehow? Move the definitions of gradients and/or colors to another file and allow swapping that file maybe? |
I just opened a pull request that implements a |
Discussion on this topic will continue here: #185 |
was: discuss impact of badger on the Specification
@rafalchmiel has implemented badges using a style that is different from the Shields specification. From the badger README:
Here's the result:
What can we learn from this?
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