Try selecting a color or gradient in the browser, copy the list of tags, and paste it into your README. No installation required. GitHub's README CSS forces the underlining of tags that contain text. Underlines may look fine, but they can clutter the list of items, especially if each item already has an icon, name, and description. There is no price reduction switch to turn it off. Not stripped: Elements that contain only elements. There are no text nodes and no underscores. So if you render the project name to SVG, and then put SVG in the link, the underline disappears and other styles remain clean. You can also control the color-choose a color that matches your project's brand, rather than GitHub's default blue link. Here's a small Python command-line (and a web app) that can help you do just that. It will use Helvetica Bold to measure the width of your project name (so that the SVG canvas fits the glyphs without clipping or filling), then write to SVG, and then print out a markdown summary ready to paste into README.
