Show HN: Minimalistic “Fork Me on GitHub.”

Here's another minimalistic approach:

    <a href="https://github.com/yourname">Fork me on GitHub</a>

You can now use the <a> tag anywhere in your code.

http://tholman.com/github-corners/ is another, which gives you straight SVG to inline. This one with a couple of minutes of minification and inlining comes to about 1 170 bytes (no gzip); that one after similar time comes to about 985 bytes and more accessible (see its aria-label/aria-hidden) if you remove the fancy animation which is a bonus.

(I confess I’m addicted to shaving bytes.)

FYI, the "original" ribbons are at

https://github.com/blog/273-github-ribbons

They use PNG images which are around 8kb. The SVG from this project (which lacks the text) is 1kb.

On my screen I can see color difference between the Octocat and the background (on your demo website).

Design suggestion: increase the padding of the GitHub logo. It looks quite crowded.