Top Marks Employee Excellence Award Badge
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A digital badge for employee excellence: a five-point rating track with the top mark in claret on a graphite disc, above the word Outstanding.
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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
- Employee Excellence 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
Colours
- Paper#faf7f3
- Ink#26262c
- Accent#8c1d3c
- Second accent#f1e0e2
- Muted text#6b6670
Change any colour in the studio.
Design notes
The badge reduces the set's rating scale to one row. On a graphite disc with a fine blush ring, four open grey rings run along a track to a fifth ring filled in claret inside a short blush capsule: the top mark. EMPLOYEE EXCELLENCE sits above in a crisp serif and OUTSTANDING below in bold capitals that stay readable at thumbnail size. It matches the landscape and portrait certificates of the same set.
About
Employee Excellence Badge Template, Top Marks
An employee excellence badge travels where a framed certificate cannot. After the annual review or the year-end awards, the employee can add it to a LinkedIn profile, an email signature or an internal profile page, and one click leads to the verified award and the reasons it was given. HR and people teams often issue it together with the printed certificate, so colleagues and the wider network see the recognition, not only visitors to an office wall.
More wording ideas for employee excellence award certificatesWords that go with it
The email and the post, written for you
Email to send with it
Subject: name, you have earned our Employee Excellence Award
Hi name,
Your work this year was rated outstanding, and we are proud to present you with our Employee Excellence Award. The quality you brought, the goals you went beyond and the example you set for the team did not go unnoticed.
Your certificate is ready. Open it to see the award, download a copy to print, and add it to your LinkedIn profile to share the news with your network.
Congratulations, and thank you for an exceptional year.
Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.
Post for the recipient to share
I am honoured to receive this year's Employee Excellence Award. It means a lot to see a year of hard work recognised, and none of it happened alone: thank you to my manager and my team for the support, the feedback and the high standards we set for each other. On to the next year. #EmployeeExcellence #Recognition
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
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.
The badge is a round image on a 470 × 470 px board, drawn to stay readable at 120 px, the size of a profile picture.
Fraunces (title), Manrope (text, labels). All are Google Fonts, free for personal and commercial use, and you can swap any of them in the studio.
Yes. Every text, colour and drawing is its own layer in the studio. Add your logo in the logo spot; the design keeps its balance with a wide or a square logo.
Each person gets the badge with their own verified record. They add it to LinkedIn or an email signature, and anyone who clicks it sees who earned it and who issued it.
Yes. This design is part of a set: Top Marks Employee Excellence Award Certificate and Top Marks Employee Excellence Award Certificate, Portrait. Issue them together so the certificate and the badge read as one award for employee excellence award.
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