Taxonomy badges with type-specific styles

[RxChi1d]

Summary

Propose optional styling hooks so taxonomy badges can use different colors for categories and tags.

Problem

Taxonomy badges currently share a single style, making categories and tags harder to distinguish at a glance.

Proposed solution

Allow badge.html to accept a type (e.g., category / tag) and emit corresponding classes for easy CSS overrides.

Details

• Call site (taxonomy output): When iterating taxonomies in article-meta/basic.html, pass a dict so the badge knows its source type. Example:

  {{ partial "badge.html" (dict "text" .LinkTitle "type" $taxonomy) }}

  $taxonomy would be values such as categories / tags.
• badge.html behavior: Accept both strings and maps.
  If given a string, keep current behavior (backward compatible). If given a map, read text and type, and append a type-specific class.
• Styling hooks: Add type-specific classes (e.g., .badge-category / .badge-tag or .badge--categories / .badge--tags) so users can override colors via CSS.
• Default behavior: No change to existing output unless type is provided.

Why this might be useful

A small visual improvement with broad applicability that doesn’t change existing behavior.

Alternatives considered

Overriding badge.html or article-meta/basic.html, but that adds maintenance overhead and upgrade friction.

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Demo / screenshots

Below are example screenshots from my own site built on Blowfish:

1. Article list

2. Article page