Proceedings Bookmark Best Paper Award Badge
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A digital badge for the author of a conference's best paper: a dog-eared journal page with a gold bookmark tail, the event name, BEST PAPER and the year.
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Updated 31 October 2026 · Designed by the Hyperstack studio
See it where it lives
Drawn to read at small sizes
A badge is mostly seen small. These are its real sizes on screen.
On a profile
120 px
In a list of badges
64 px
In an email signature
40 px
What is on it
A badge people are proud to show
You write once
The same for everyone. Keep the template’s words or change them.
- Badge words
- Annual Research Conference
Filled in for each person
Hyperstack fills these from your list when you send.
- The recipient’s name and the award, in the badge’s verified record
- The issue date and a credential ID
- A link anyone can click to verify it
Specifications
Sizes, fonts and colours
Sizes
- Badge
- 470 × 470 px, round · Reads at 120 px on a profile
Fonts
- EB Garamond
- Title, Text, Recipient name
- Source Sans 3
- Labels
Google Fonts, free for commercial use.
Colours
- Paper#fbf8f1
- Ink#1b2a41
- Accent#1f3b63
- Second accent#b8893b
- Muted text#5b6472
Change any colour in the studio.
Design notes
The badge takes the shape of a single page from the proceedings, with a navy rim, a folded top corner and a gold silk bookmark hanging below its foot. On the page sit the organisation in small capitals, the conference name in a book serif, BEST PAPER on a navy band, the place and the year. It stays legible as a small profile thumbnail and matches the two certificates in this set.
About
Best Paper Award Badge Template, Proceedings Bookmark
Conference programme committees, learned societies and student research symposia increasingly pair the printed best paper certificate with a digital badge. The author, often a PhD student or early-career researcher, can show it on a faculty page, a lab website or a LinkedIn profile, where a hiring panel sees at a glance that peer reviewers ranked the paper first among every submission.
More wording ideas for best paper award certificatesWords that go with it
The email and the post, written for you
Email to send with it
Subject: Congratulations, name: your paper won the Best Paper Award
Dear name,
On behalf of the programme committee, congratulations. After reading every accepted paper again, the committee chose yours as the best paper of this year's conference. It stood out for the quality of its research and the care with which it was written.
Your Best Paper Award certificate is ready. Open it to view it, download a copy to print or frame, and add the badge to your LinkedIn profile or faculty page so colleagues can see the recognition.
With warm regards and congratulations from the committee.
Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.
Post for the recipient to share
Happy to share that our paper received the Best Paper Award at this year's conference. Thank you to my co-authors, my supervisor and the reviewers whose careful comments made the work better. It means a lot to see research we spent so long on recognised by the community. #BestPaperAward #Research #AcademicConference
Recipients share it with one click from their credential page, with the badge attached.
Certificate or badge?
Send both. They do different jobs.
Certificate
- A full record: name, statement, skills, dates and signatures
- Printed and framed, or kept as a PDF
- Opens to a page anyone can verify
Digital badge
- A small image people put on LinkedIn and in email signatures
- Carries the verified details inside it (Open Badges 2.0)
- One click shows who earned it and who issued it
How to send it
From template to everyone’s inbox
- 01
Make it yours
Open the template, add your logo and change any colour or word.
- 02
Add your people
Upload a spreadsheet, or connect your LMS, HR tool or form.
- 03
Send it
Each person gets an email and their own credential page, in one go.
- 04
They share it
Recipients add it to LinkedIn; anyone can verify it from the QR code.
The badge is a round image on a 470 × 470 px board, drawn to stay readable at 120 px, the size of a profile picture.
EB Garamond (title, text, recipient name), Source Sans 3 (labels). All are Google Fonts, free for personal and commercial use, and you can swap any of them in the studio.
Yes. Every text, colour and drawing is its own layer in the studio. Add your logo in the logo spot; the design keeps its balance with a wide or a square logo.
Each person gets the badge with their own verified record. They add it to LinkedIn or an email signature, and anyone who clicks it sees who earned it and who issued it.
Yes. This design is part of a set: Proceedings Bookmark Best Paper Award Certificate and Proceedings Bookmark Best Paper Award Certificate, Portrait. Issue them together so the certificate and the badge read as one award for best paper award.
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