Handshake Line Sportsmanship Badge

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A round digital sportsmanship badge: two players shake hands across a blue and red ring that reads GOOD GAME on top and FAIR PLAY below.

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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 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: Sportsmanship

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

Saira Condensed: Title, Labels, Recipient name
Hanken Grotesk: Text

Google Fonts, free for commercial use.

Colours

Paper#fbfaf6
Ink#17213a
Accent#1f4e9c
Second accent#c7352c
Muted text#5f6676

Change any colour in the studio.

Design notes

The badge keeps only one pair from the handshake line: a blue player and a red player, shown from the waist up, clasping hands at the centre. The outer ring is split into the two team colours, with GOOD GAME curved over the top and FAIR PLAY under the bottom, as if each side said one word. A navy band reads SPORTSMANSHIP, with AWARD and your organisation name beneath it. The handshake and the band stay clear at small profile sizes.

About

Sportsmanship Badge Template, Good Game Handshake

A sportsmanship badge lets a club, school or league recognise fair play where players and parents actually look: on a team app, a credential page or a LinkedIn profile. It works for a weekly fair play award as well as the end-of-season honour, and for youth teams, college sides and adult recreational leagues alike. Many organisers pair it with a printed certificate so the player has something to frame and something to share.

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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 won this season's Sportsmanship Award

Hi name,

Congratulations! You have been chosen for this season's Sportsmanship Award. Every week you showed respect to referees, opponents and teammates, and you played fair even when the game got tough. That example made every match better.

Your certificate and badge are ready. Open them to have a look, download a copy to print for your wall, or share the award with your family and friends online.

Thank you for showing everyone how the game should be played.

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

Post for the recipient to share

Proud to receive the Sportsmanship Award this season. Winning matters, but how you play matters more, and this award comes from the officials and the teams we played against. Thank you to my coaches for teaching respect before tactics, and to my teammates for making every game worth playing. #Sportsmanship #FairPlay

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.