Judges Ring Essay Competition Badge

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A digital badge for essay competition winners and placed entrants: a book pilcrow ringed once in the judge's red ink on a cream disc with a navy rim.

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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: Award

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, Labels, Recipient name

Google Fonts, free for commercial use.

Colours

Paper#fbf7ee
Ink#1e2433
Accent#a8322a
Second accent#2c3f63
Muted text#6b6457

Change any colour in the studio.

Design notes

The badge keeps one sign of the written page: the pilcrow, the paragraph mark of book printing, set in blue-black ink in the centre and circled once by a quick red ring, the way a judge marks the winning entry. ESSAY COMPETITION follows the top of the cream disc and AWARD stands straight below, inside a single navy rim, so the words stay readable at thumbnail size. It belongs to the same set as the landscape and portrait certificates with the judge's ring.

About

Essay Competition Award Badge Template, Judge's Ring

Writers who place in an essay contest often want to show the result beyond the prize assembly: on a school profile, a university application portfolio, a personal website or a professional network. Schools, libraries, literary societies, foundations and youth programmes can send this badge alongside the printed certificate once the judges' results are final. It links back to the verified award, so an admissions tutor or a teacher can confirm who won and when.

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Words that go with it

The email and the post, written for you

Email to send with it

Subject: Your essay competition certificate, name

Dear name,

Congratulations. The judges read every entry to this year's essay competition with care, and your essay stood out for the strength of its argument and the clarity of its writing.

Your certificate is ready. Open it to see the full record of your award, then download a copy to print or share it with your family, your teachers and your friends online.

Thank you for writing for us, and we hope to read your next essay.

Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.

Post for the recipient to share

I am happy to share that my essay won a prize in this year's essay writing competition. Writing to a strict word limit taught me to build an argument with care and to choose my evidence well. Thank you to my teachers for their feedback and to the judges for reading every entry. #EssayWriting #Writing #Education

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

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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

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Make it yours
Open the template, add your logo and change any colour or word.
02
Add your people
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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.