Badges for the openSUSE Kudos recognition system. Each badge celebrates contributions, collaboration, and creativity across the openSUSE community.

🎨 Design Guidelines

🌈 Color Palette

Generic badges should follow the hellcp's (Jay Michalska) amazing color parellte to ensure a consistent visual identity. Platform-specific or hardware-related badges (e.g. POWER, System-Z, ARM) may use distinctive colors for quick recognition.

orange:        #f68946
radish-red:    #0a0a0a
plum-purple:   #a498ff
butterfly-blue:#00c8ff
turquoise-teal:#20caa3
bagel-beige:   #fff8ee
gabbro-gray:   #b8aeab
maple-maroon:  #301a14

🖼️ Resolution & Format

Preferred resolution: 800×600 px
Preferred formats: .png for production, .svg as editable source
Export badges using nearest-neighbor or pixel-perfect scaling for a crisp 8-bit look.
File names should be lowercase and hyphen-separated, for example:
```
mentor.png
bug-squasher.png
systemz-hero.png
```
After exporting a badge, run it through optipng
```
optipng -o7 badge-name.png
```

✍️ Font Guidelines

Badges should use Pixel Operator (or Pixel Operator Bold) for all text. The font itself is not listed in Google fonts api so it has to be selfhosted. This font maintains the consistent pixel-art aesthetic used across openSUSE Kudos visuals.

Primary font: Pixel Operator licensed under SIL Open Font License 1.1
Recommended sizes:
- Titles: 24–32 px
- Subtext / labels: 16–20 px
Style: All-caps or small-caps when appropriate.
Color: Use one of the approved palette colors for text, typically butterfly-blue, geeko-green, or bagel-beige, depending on background contrast.

🧠 Badge Criteria

Each badge should have a clear, measurable reason for being awarded. This ensures fairness, consistency, and transparency across the recognition system.

Explain what the badge represents and why it’s awarded
Include measurable criteria where possible (e.g. “Merged 10 pull requests”, “Mentored 3 new contributors”).
When submitting a new badge, include its description and criteria in your PR.

Detailed criteria for existing badges are maintained in the openSUSE Kudos repository.

🧩 Usage of badges

This repository is intended to be used as a submodule of the openSUSE Kudos webapp.
It provides assets for rendering printable achievements and peer-to-peer kudos by the Kudos app designed for sharing on social networks.

Please do not use badges from this repository outside of the Kudos application or its official promotion.
These badges are meant to recognize specific contributions, and using them elsewhere would diminish their intended value and meaning.

🪪 License

All badge designs are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) license.

You are free to share and adapt these badges, provided you give proper credit and distribute derivative works under the same license. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ for full details.

🧩 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! When submitting new badges:

Follow the LCP color palette and 800×600 px layout.
Provide a short reasoning or measurable criteria for the badge.
Include both PNG and SVG if possible.
Add yourself to AUTHORS.md.

💚 Geeko thanks you for helping recognize our contributors!

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