Key Of Honor Honorary Award Badge

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A digital badge for an honorary award, shaped like a gilt ceremonial key with HONORARY on a crimson band and Honoris Causa set round the rim.

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Updated 7 November 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: Honorary 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

Cinzel: Title, Labels

Google Fonts, free for commercial use.

Colours

Paper#fbf7ee
Ink#1d2535
Accent#7b2230
Second accent#b98a3e
Muted text#5e5a54

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Design notes

This badge takes its shape from the ceremonial key a city hands to a person it wants to welcome as one of its own. The round head of the key holds HONORARY on a straight crimson band, Honoris Causa curves over the top of the gilt rim and Distinguished Service under it, and below the head the collar, shaft and bit hang down so the outline still reads as a key at thumbnail size. A slot under the band takes the issuer's logo. It suits clubs, alumni groups and civic bodies that want an award with some ceremony to it.

About

Honorary Award Badge Template, Gilt Key of Honor

An honorary award is given for the sake of honour rather than for passing a course: a board names a long-serving volunteer an honorary member, a school thanks a benefactor or a retiring caretaker, a society recognises a guest speaker who gave years of help. Because the person was not assessed, the award usually comes with a short citation and a public moment, and a badge is the part they carry onto their profile afterwards.

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Words that go with it

The email and the post, written for you

Email to send with it

Subject: name, you have been named an honorary member

Dear name,

It is our pleasure to tell you that our board has conferred an honorary distinction on you, in recognition of everything you have given to our community over the years.

Your certificate of honor is ready. Open it to read the citation, download a copy to print and frame, or add the badge to your LinkedIn profile.

Thank you for your service and your example. We are proud to count you as one of our own.

With warm regards and our thanks.

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

Post for the recipient to share

I am honoured to have been named an honorary member by an organisation I have worked alongside for many years. Being welcomed in this way by people I admire means more to me than I can easily say. Thank you to the board and to everyone who made the work worth doing. #HonoraryMember #Community

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

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Make it yours
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02
Add your people
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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.