Nine Box Top Performer Badge
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A digital badge for your strongest employee: a graphite plate with a nine-box talent grid and one vermilion tile, top right, above the words Top Performer.
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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
- Top Performer
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#faf8f4
- Ink#1f2329
- Accent#c23b27
- Second accent#50627a
- Muted text#5f6670
Change any colour in the studio.
Design notes
The badge reduces the set's idea to its plainest form: a graphite plate with a thin keyline, a three-by-three grid on two axes, and a single vermilion tile in the top-right corner, the box for the strongest people. The fixed words TOP PERFORMER sit beneath it in bold sans capitals, large enough to read at thumbnail size. It is made to match the landscape and portrait certificates of the same set.
About
Top Performer Badge Template, Nine-Box Grid
Many employers now send a digital badge with their recognition awards, because a badge travels: the winner can add it to a LinkedIn profile, an email signature or an internal people directory, and anyone who clicks it reaches the verified award. A top performer badge suits quarterly or annual awards, sales club winners and team members singled out in the talent review, and the same badge can be issued again every cycle.
More wording ideas for top performer certificatesWords that go with it
The email and the post, written for you
Email to send with it
Subject: Congratulations, name: you are this year's top performer
Hi name,
Your results this year stood out across the whole organization, and the leadership team wanted to recognize them properly. You beat your targets, kept the quality of your work high and raised the bar for everyone around you.
Your top performer award is ready. Open it to see your certificate, download a copy to print, or add the badge to your LinkedIn profile so your network can see what you achieved.
Thank you for a remarkable year.
Hyperstack fills in each person’s name and link when it sends.
Post for the recipient to share
I am proud to share that I was named top performer of the year. It was a demanding year with ambitious targets, and I could not have reached them without a great team and managers who gave me room to do my best work. Thank you to everyone who pushed me and backed me. On to the next goal. #TopPerformer #EmployeeRecognition
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.
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: Nine Box Top Performer Certificate and Nine Box Top Performer Certificate, Portrait. Issue them together so the certificate and the badge read as one award for top performer.
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