diff --git a/src/components/Markdown.svelte b/src/components/Markdown.svelte
index e92f54a32..486280e89 100644
--- a/src/components/Markdown.svelte
+++ b/src/components/Markdown.svelte
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
     twemoji,
     scrollIntoView,
     canonicalize,
+    canonicalizeGithubImageUrl,
     isCommit,
   } from "@app/lib/utils";
   import { Renderer, markdown, sanitizeConfig } from "@app/lib/markdown";
@@ -226,10 +227,14 @@
       const imagePath = i.getAttribute("src");
       const imageClass = i.getAttribute("class");
 
-      // Make sure the source isn't a URL before trying to fetch it from the repo
       const emoji = imageClass && imageClass === "txt-emoji";
-      if (imagePath && !isUrl(imagePath) && !emoji) {
-        i.setAttribute("src", `${rawPath}/${canonicalize(imagePath, path)}`);
+      if (imagePath && !emoji) {
+        if (isUrl(imagePath)) {
+          // Rewrite GitHub "blob" URLs so the raw image content is rendered.
+          i.setAttribute("src", canonicalizeGithubImageUrl(imagePath));
+        } else {
+          i.setAttribute("src", `${rawPath}/${canonicalize(imagePath, path)}`);
+        }
       }
     }
 
diff --git a/src/lib/utils.ts b/src/lib/utils.ts
index b2a20b0cb..90dbd1c00 100644
--- a/src/lib/utils.ts
+++ b/src/lib/utils.ts
@@ -184,6 +184,29 @@ export function isUrl(input: string): boolean {
   return /^https?:\/\//.test(input);
 }
 
+// Rewrite GitHub "blob" image URLs so they resolve to the raw image content.
+// A URL like https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/blob/<ref>/<path> serves an
+// HTML page rather than the image bytes, so appending `?raw=true` makes GitHub
+// redirect to the raw content. URLs already pointing at the raw content (either
+// via `?raw=true` or raw.githubusercontent.com) are returned unchanged.
+export function canonicalizeGithubImageUrl(input: string): string {
+  let url;
+  try {
+    url = new URL(input);
+  } catch {
+    return input;
+  }
+  if (
+    (url.hostname === "github.com" || url.hostname === "www.github.com") &&
+    /^\/[^/]+\/[^/]+\/blob\//.test(url.pathname) &&
+    url.searchParams.get("raw") !== "true"
+  ) {
+    url.searchParams.set("raw", "true");
+    return url.toString();
+  }
+  return input;
+}
+
 export function isCommit(input: string): boolean {
   return /^[a-f0-9]{40}$/.test(input);
 }
diff --git a/tests/unit/utils.test.ts b/tests/unit/utils.test.ts
index 424354be0..e9f6fdce4 100644
--- a/tests/unit/utils.test.ts
+++ b/tests/unit/utils.test.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,57 @@ describe("String Assertions", () => {
   ])("isUrl $url => $expected", ({ url, expected }) => {
     expect(utils.isUrl(url)).toBe(expected);
   });
+
+  test.each([
+    {
+      url: "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png",
+      expected:
+        "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png?raw=true",
+    },
+    {
+      // Already has ?raw=true, leave it untouched.
+      url: "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png?raw=true",
+      expected:
+        "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png?raw=true",
+    },
+    {
+      // Raw content host is already correct, leave it untouched.
+      url: "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/master/img.png",
+      expected:
+        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/master/img.png",
+    },
+    {
+      // An existing query string is preserved.
+      url: "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png?token=abc",
+      expected:
+        "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png?token=abc&raw=true",
+    },
+    {
+      // The www subdomain is handled too.
+      url: "https://www.github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png",
+      expected:
+        "https://www.github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/blob/master/img.png?raw=true",
+    },
+    {
+      // A "blob" segment that isn't in the <owner>/<repo>/blob/ position is
+      // left untouched.
+      url: "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/raw/master/blob/img.png",
+      expected:
+        "https://github.com/radicle-dev/radicle-explorer/raw/master/blob/img.png",
+    },
+    {
+      // Non-GitHub URLs are returned unchanged.
+      url: "https://example.com/img.png",
+      expected: "https://example.com/img.png",
+    },
+    {
+      // Not a valid URL, returned unchanged.
+      url: "not a url",
+      expected: "not a url",
+    },
+  ])("canonicalizeGithubImageUrl $url => $expected", ({ url, expected }) => {
+    expect(utils.canonicalizeGithubImageUrl(url)).toEqual(expected);
+  });
 });
 
 describe("Parse Functions", () => {