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An innovation award badge for staff and teams whose ideas made a real difference, styled as a violet GRANTED stamp around an ink paper dart drawing.

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Round badge, readable at profile-picture size
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Each badge links to a verified record
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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: Innovation 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

IBM Plex Mono: Text, Labels

Google Fonts, free for commercial use.

Colours

Paper#fcfbf7
Ink#1d1b22
Accent#5b2d86
Second accent#ebe5f2
Muted text#5f5b68

Change any colour in the studio.

Design notes

The badge reduces the set's idea to a rubber stamp: a violet double ring with INNOVATION AWARD curved along the top and NO. 1 along the bottom, a paper dart drawn in black ink line at the centre, and GRANTED struck across a bar beneath it. Its few fixed words stay readable at profile size, so a winner can show it on LinkedIn, in an email signature or on a credential page.

About

Innovation Award Badge Template, Patent-Style Stamp

Innovation awards exist because the best ideas in an organisation rarely come from a job description. Someone spots a slow process and redesigns it, a lab team finds a cheaper material, a hackathon group ships a feature that customers adopt. Companies, universities and professional associations recognise that work with an award for innovation, often at an annual awards evening, an innovation programme's demo day or a quarterly all-hands.

Wording on the template“For an original idea, put into practice, that changed how the work is done: a better process, real savings and a hard problem solved in a way no one had tried before.”

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Words that go with it

The email and the post, written for you

Email to send with it

Subject: name, your idea won the Innovation Award

Hi name,

Congratulations. The judges picked your idea for this year's Innovation Award. What started as a suggestion is now part of how we work, and the difference it has made is clear to everyone who uses it.

Your award certificate is ready. Open it to see it, download a copy to print, or share it on LinkedIn so your network can see what you built.

Thank you for asking how things could work better, and for doing something about it.

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

Post for the recipient to share

Proud to share that my idea won our company's Innovation Award this year. It started as a small fix to a process that frustrated our whole team, and it is now how we work every day. Thank you to the colleagues who tested it, argued with it and made it better. #Innovation #InnovationAward #ContinuousImprovement

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

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.