From e1f5760875658241d678759a9793971155350ee9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Littauer <richard.littauer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Jun 2016 10:53:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added Badge

Related to #18
---
 README.md | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ce71b31..84d48e7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/made%20by-Protocol%20Labs-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://ipn.io)
 [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/project-IPFS-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://ipfs.io/)
 [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/freenode-%23ipfs-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23ipfs)
+[![standard-readme compliant](https://img.shields.io/badge/standard--readme-OK-green.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/RichardLitt/standard-readme)
 
 > Readme Standard Style
 
@@ -69,13 +70,21 @@ $ npm i -g standard-readme
 
 ## Usage
 
-Currently, this is only a Readme spec. 
+Currently, this is only a Readme spec.
 
 ```
 $ standard-readme
 // Will output spec (this Readme)
 ```
 
+### Badge
+
+If your README is compliant with Standard-Readme and you're on GitHub, it would be great if you could add the badge:
+
+[![standard-readme compliant](https://img.shields.io/badge/standard--readme-OK-green.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/RichardLitt/standard-readme)
+
+This allows people to link back to this Spec, and helps adoption of the README. The badge is **not required**.
+
 ### Example Readmes
 
 To see how the specification has been applied, see the [example-readmes](example-readmes/).