How to add color to Github's README.md file

Question

I have a README.md file for my project underscore-cli, a pretty sweet tool for hacking JSON and JS on the command-line.

I want to document the -

Answer 1

As an alternative to rendering a raster image, you can embed a SVG file:

You can then add color text to the SVG file as usual:

Unfortunately, even though you can select and copy text when you open the .svg file, the text is not selectable when the SVG image is embedded.

Demo: https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/95621a949b07db295000