Year Calendar Employee of the Year Badge
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A navy employee of the year badge with twelve month tiles and a gold December star, for annual staff awards. Clear at 120 px on a profile or email.
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Updated 30 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
- Employee of the Year
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
Colours
- Paper#fbf8f2
- Ink#17223a
- Accent#1c2d4f
- Second accent#c09848
- Muted text#5c6576
Change any colour in the studio.
Design notes
The badge shows the whole year as twelve small tiles of day dots in a navy field with a gold rim. Eleven tiles stay quiet; the December tile is solid gold and holds a dark faceted star, the last day of a year earned in full. EMPLOYEE is set in a formal serif with OF THE YEAR in spaced capitals beneath it. The grid and the words stay sharp at 120 pixels, which suits a LinkedIn profile or a team chat avatar.
About
Employee of the Year Badge Template, Year Calendar
An employee of the year badge is the digital half of a company's top annual honour. HR teams and leaders announce the winner at a year-end party, an annual awards night or the first town hall of the new year, and the badge lets that person carry the honour into a profile, an email signature or an internal directory long after the event.
More wording ideas for employee of the year certificatesWords that go with it
The email and the post, written for you
Email to send with it
Subject: name, you are our Employee of the Year
Dear name,
This year your name came up again and again: in results, in client notes and in what your colleagues told us. It is our pleasure to name you Employee of the Year.
Your award certificate and badge are ready. Open them to read the citation, download the certificate to print and frame, and share the badge on LinkedIn so your network can see the year you had.
Thank you for twelve months of work that made all of us better.
Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.
Post for the recipient to share
I am honoured to be named Employee of the Year. Looking back over the last twelve months, the moments I am proudest of were shared: late fixes with my team, a hard launch we finished together, clients who trusted us. Thank you to my colleagues for nominating me and to our leaders for the chance to grow. On to next year. #EmployeeOfTheYear #Grateful
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.
Cormorant Garamond (title), Manrope (text, 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: Year Calendar Employee of the Year Certificate and Year Calendar Employee of the Year Certificate, Portrait. Issue them together so the certificate and the badge read as one award for employee of the year.
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