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 # YARTSU
 
-yartsu, another rich terminal screenshot utility
 
-![YARTSU LOGO](https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/blob/main/assets/logo.svg)
-![YARTSU HELP](https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/blob/main/assets/yartsu.svg)
+<div id="top"></div>
+
+<!-- PROJECT LOGO -->
+<div align="center">
+  <a href="https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu">
+    <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/main/assets/logo.svg" alt="Logo" width=600 >
+  </a>
+  <p align="center">
+    yartsu, another rich terminal screenshot utility
+  </p>
+</div>
+<br />
+
+<!-- PROJECT SHIELDS -->
+[![Stargazers][stars-shield]][stars-url]
+[![Issues][issues-shield]][issues-url]
+[![MIT License][license-shield]][license-url]
+
+
 
 **NOTE**: this is a currently in a beta release and the API is subject to change (feedback welcome)
 
@@ -25,6 +41,8 @@ pip install yartsu
 
 ## Usage
 
+<div align="center"><img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/main/assets/yartsu.svg" alt="Logo" width=600 ></div>
+
 Getting a properly formatted output from a terminal screenshot is challenging.
 
 There are three options for generating a screenshot.
@@ -39,7 +57,7 @@ you to force ANSI color codes to be included even when piping output.
 In these cases you can simply pipe the output directly into `yartsu`
 
 ```bash
-ls --color=always / | yartsu -w 50 -o assets/ls_color.svg
+ls --color=always | yartsu -w 50 -o assets/ls_color.svg
 ```
 
 ### Option 2: Subprocess/Pty
@@ -60,7 +78,7 @@ Finally, if you neither of the above options work and you can
 manage to preserve the codes in a plain text file you can pass this as input to `yartsu`.
 
 ```bash
-ls --color / > ls.txt
+ls --color > ls.txt
 yartsu -w 50 -i ls.txt -o assets/ls_color.svg
 ```
 
@@ -84,3 +102,16 @@ See [here](https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/blob/main/docs/themes.md) a pr
 - [ ] add support for nerd-fonts
 - [ ] add optional shadow
 - [ ] add more themes
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+[forks-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/forks/daylinmorgan/yartsu.svg?style=flat
+[forks-url]: https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/network/members
+[stars-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/stars/daylinmorgan/yartsu.svg?style=flat
+[stars-url]: https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/stargazers
+[issues-shield]: https://img.shields.io/github/issues/daylinmorgan/yartsu.svg?style=flat
+[issues-url]: https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/issues
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+[license-url]: https://github.com/daylinmorgan/yartsu/blob/main/LICENSE.txt