diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.rst b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
index 7b74d58..b3d0065 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING.rst
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING.rst
@@ -33,3 +33,7 @@ Beeref files are sqlite databases, so they can be inspected with any sqlite brow
For debugging options, run::
beeref --help
+
+The Python version badge in the README is generated with pybadges::
+
+ python -m pybadges --left-text=Python --right-text="3.6 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9" > images/python_version_badge.svg
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 5b65dad..5784bbd 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -3,10 +3,9 @@ BeeRef — A Simple Reference Image Viewer
View your references while you art!
-.. image:: https://github.com/rbreu/beeref/blob/main/images/screenshot.jpg
-
|python-version| |github-ci-flake8| |github-ci-pytest| |codecov|
+.. image:: https://github.com/rbreu/beeref/blob/main/images/screenshot.jpg
.. |python-version| image:: https://github.com/rbreu/beeref/blob/main/images/python_version_badge.svg
diff --git a/images/python_version_badge.svg b/images/python_version_badge.svg
index 551ae04..703ab8f 100644
--- a/images/python_version_badge.svg
+++ b/images/python_version_badge.svg
@@ -1 +1 @@
-
\ No newline at end of file
+
\ No newline at end of file