# K-Merge — README Reference > A conference title slide pinned to a white wall: one centred heading, a quiet credit block, a short strip of grey-and-color tags, then a pastel block diagram that tells the story before a word of prose. **Theme:** light Read from `README.md` on the default branch `main` of github.com/donaldssh/K-Merge (last commit touching the file 6c4d531, 2026-10-06; captured 2026-10-28). Evidence is the raw Markdown, the HTML that GitHub's API returns for it, a 1440×900 first-screen capture and a 2700px tall capture of the light theme, with the README column 920px wide (856px content width). Badge colors come from the SVGs that shields.io returns for the badge URLs, checked against pixels in the capture; the teaser's size and colors come from `docs/images/teaser.jpg` fetched from the repo. GitHub sets the type (its system stack, Segoe UI in the Windows captures), the 16px body size and the heading rules; nothing in the README overrides them. ## Overview The whole header sits inside one `
` and is written in plain Markdown rather than HTML paragraphs. A single `#` heading carries the full paper title on two lines with GitHub's grey rule under it. Below it come one line of six linked author names with superscript affiliation numbers, one line of three affiliations, a bold venue line "ACL 2026 (main, oral)", a row of five small flat shields.io badges, and a 660×536 teaser diagram shown at its natural size, narrower than the column and centred. The diagram uses soft pastel blocks (pale yellow, green, lilac, pink, peach) on white, so the first screen reads as light and calm. After the teaser the page turns into a long left-aligned working document: an `## Abstract` of one paragraph, then setup, a LoRA library table, an experiments table, acknowledgements and a citation, with emoji in four of the six `##` headings. There is no news list, no results table and no logo. ## Header Block Rendered positions are y values in the 1440×900 capture (the README box starts at y≈25 with its "README.md" file bar; content starts at y≈80). 1. **Centring wrapper**: `
` opens on the first line and closes after the teaser. Everything inside is ordinary Markdown separated by blank lines, so each item becomes a centred paragraph or heading. 2. **Title** (y≈140 to 180, two lines): `# K-Merge: Online Continual Merging of Adapters for On-device Large Language Models`. GitHub h1, 2em (32px), weight 600, with a 1px grey rule under it across the 856px content width. The title wraps after "On-". 3. **Authors** (y≈236): six Markdown links, each on its own source line, written as `[Donald Shenaj](https://donaldssh.github.io/)1,2,3 `. The newlines and ` ` render as a double space between names, all on one line. The first line carries a stray `` after the link; GitHub's sanitiser drops it and it has no visible effect. No equal-contribution or corresponding-author marks. 4. **Affiliations** (y≈277): `1 Samsung R&D Institute UK   2 University of Pisa   3 University of Padova`. Plain text, one line. 5. **Venue line** (y≈318): `**ACL 2026 (main, oral)**`. Body size, bold, no link and no badge. 6. **Badge row** (y≈344 to 364): five `[![alt](https://img.shields.io/badge/...)](url)` lines in one paragraph. Each badge is 20px tall; the row spans about 480px. Details in Badges. 7. **Teaser** (y≈390 to about 926): `![Paper teaser](docs/images/teaser.jpg)` with no width. The JPEG is 660×536 and renders at that size, centred, leaving about 98px of white on each side of the 856px column. Its lower edge falls just below the 900px fold. No caption. 8. **Close**: `
`, then `## Abstract` left-aligned below the fold. ## Badges All five use the static path form `https://img.shields.io/badge/