diff --git a/badge.js b/badge.js
index 588a1eef434d5..cdc5da2cb1959 100644
--- a/badge.js
+++ b/badge.js
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ function makeImage(data, cb) {
     data.format = 'svg';
   }
   if (!(data.template + '-' + data.format in templates)) {
-    data.template = 'default';
+    data.template = 'flat';
   }
   if (data.colorscheme) {
     var pickedColorscheme = colorscheme[data.colorscheme];
diff --git a/templates/default-template.svg b/templates/default-template.svg
deleted file mode 120000
index 96c8fbd259b05..0000000000000
--- a/templates/default-template.svg
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-flat-template.svg
\ No newline at end of file