⭐Create

This command displays prompts to create your own badge.

To start, run:

mdb create

then follow the prompts that follow.

In the below guide, we will create a custom GitHub badge which links to the mdbadges-cli repository.

Yellow text is the area that your answers to the prompts will fill out.

Prompts

Alt Text

This is the text enclosed within the first square brackets.

In our example, this is [![mdbadges-cli]...

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Text On Badge

This is the actual text that will be shown on the badge image.

In our example, we enter mdbadges-cli within the prompt, so this becomes https://img.shields.io/badge/mdbadges-cli-%... in the URL.

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Hexadecimal value

This is the hex color for the background of the badge.

In our example, this is ...mdbadges-cli-000000...

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Logo

This is the logo that will be displayed on the badge, which is taken from SimpleIcons.

In our example, this is logo=github...

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Logo Color

This is the color that will the logo will use on the badge.

In our example, this is logoColor=white...

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Style

This prompt will determine the style that the created badge will use.

There are 5 styles you can pick from to use in the badge. These include the following:

• flat

• flat-square

• plastic

• social

• for-the-badge

In our example, this will be style=for-the-badge...

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Link (Optional)

This is an optional prompt that will let you enter the link that the badge will redirect to when clicked.

• In our example, this is ...)](https://github.com/inttter/mdbadges-cli)

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If you have been following this guide, this is what the prompts should look like:

The above guide as performed in the terminal.

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With those steps completed, you should have a badge that you can now use in either your Markdown or your HTML webpage. You can run this command again to create another new badge!

Aliases

This command has 1 alias, which is as follows:

• generate