Classic Graduation Badge
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Give graduates a digital graduation badge with this mortarboard and gold tassel template. Easy to share online and clear at small sizes.
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Add your logo and wording, then send it to everyone at once, each with a link anyone can verify.
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- Round badge, readable at profile-picture size
- Your logo, colours and wording
- Each badge links to a verified record
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Updated 26 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
- Graduate
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#faf6ec
- Ink#16213a
- Accent#1c2c4c
- Second accent#b8892f
- Muted text#5c6275
Change any colour in the studio.
Design notes
This badge shows a mortarboard seen from above with a gold tassel hanging on the left, and a GRADUATE ribbon across the lower corner. The navy and gold colours stay readable at small sizes, even in a thumbnail. It suits any level, from preschool to postgraduate study, and it can sit beside the certificate as proof of the same achievement.
About
Graduation Badge Template for Graduates
A graduation badge is the digital mark of a finished program. Schools, colleges, training academies and bootcamps issue it alongside the certificate so graduates can share it on LinkedIn, in email signatures and on their profiles. It tells employers and admissions teams that the person completed every requirement.
More wording ideas for graduation certificatesWords that go with it
The email and the post, written for you
Email to send with it
Subject: Congratulations, name, on your graduation
Dear name,
Congratulations on reaching graduation day. All the lessons, late nights and hard work led to this moment, and we are proud of what you have achieved.
Your graduation certificate is ready. Open it to see it, download a copy to print and frame, or add it to your LinkedIn profile so friends and colleagues can celebrate with you.
We wish you every success in what comes next.
Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.
Post for the recipient to share
I graduated! After all the classes, deadlines and group projects, I am holding my certificate and still finding it hard to believe. Thank you to my teachers, my classmates and my family, who kept me going when it got hard. On to the next chapter. #Graduation #ClassOf2027
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.
Cormorant Garamond (title). 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: Classic Graduation Certificate and Classic Graduation Certificate, Portrait. Issue them together so the certificate and the badge read as one award for graduation.
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