Event badge maker

Design the name to be read

At an event the badge does its real work during a handshake, so the name has to be legible from a step away. The design here makes the name the dominant element, with the role and company set smaller and quieter, and the event name carried as the organisation line. That hierarchy is what lets two people read each other's badges without leaning in.

Keep the supporting text short. A role and a company are usually enough; a long department or a string of fields shrinks the name and defeats the point. If you run speaker, delegate and volunteer tiers, a colour change or the category label is a cleaner signal than extra lines of text.

Size it for a lanyard holder

Conference badges are larger than a credit card so the name can be big. The landscape badge size here suits the common A7-ish lanyard sleeves, and the tool renders at the true millimetre size at 300 DPI, so a printed batch sits correctly in the holders rather than swimming in them.

Print a run by downloading each badge as a PDF or a high-resolution PNG and sending the set to a printer, or print on perforated badge stock in-house. A barcode strip on the badge pairs with check-in scanners if your event uses them.

From one badge to a batch

Set the event name, colours and the badge category once, then change only the attendee's name, role and company for each badge. Because nothing is uploaded, a registration desk can keep producing badges on the day without sending the attendee list anywhere.

A single-visit pass for a building rather than an event is better made with the visitor pass maker, and a permanent staff card with the employee ID card maker. To trim a finished badge image to an upload limit, compress it to a KB size.