How to Design your Photo ID Badges

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Implementing a photo ID badge system for your company has many different benefits, from helping your employees connect with customers to keeping your grounds safe. If you’ve decided ID badges are a good option for your team, there are a few important factors to consider before you begin the design process. Whether you’re ordering photo IDs for your team of 10, 100 or 1,000, having a plan in place for your new badges will make everything more efficient and leave you with professional, cohesive badges.

What information needs to be on each card?

To help you answer this question, first consider what your photo ID badge’s main purpose is. Are they to help your team interact with customers? Do you want to increase your building’s security? Once you recognize the main goal of your badges, you’ll be able to better select what information needs to be included. Don’t get carried away with adding information that isn’t of any real importance because it will leave your ID badges cluttered.

What should your employees photos look like?

With photo ID badges, the pictures of your employees is a very important element that shouldn’t be overlooked. If you want your badges to look cohesive and professional, consider setting a day or two to take all of your employees’ photos. Ask them to wear a specific color or professional clothing and shoot each photo in front of the same backdrop with the same lighting. This will help you ensure all of their photos look uniform. Read our tips for taking the best photo ID pictures here.

What brand elements should be included?

Many companies overlook the branding opportunity in name tags and photo ID badges. Be sure to design your new badges with your brand in mind. What colors are present in your logo and other branding elements? What fonts do you use on your website, brochures, and other marketing materials? Use these same elements when designing your badges!

What orientation is best for your badges?

Once you’ve decided on the information that should be included and have your design in mind, it’s time to think about what orientation will work best for your photo ID badges. Will your design work best on a horizontal or vertical badge? Try both options and see how what makes everything fit best.

What security features do you need?

Many companies choose to implement a photo ID badge system to increase their security. If this is the case for your business, don’t forget to personalize each ID badge with the unique bar code your employees will need to enter your building or a department on your campus.

How will your employees wear them?

Will your team members wear their ID badges on a lanyard around their neck or with a magnet on their shirt pocket or collar? Consider how you want your employees to wear their new badges before you finalize your order. You’ll need to choose from all of our backing options, so thinking about this beforehand can help you get ahead of the game. It is also helpful to know that magnetic badges are often the most popular because they provide ease of removal and they do not poke holes in clothing.

Now that you’ve considered these key elements of your ID badge, you’re ready to design your new badges and place your order. What’s great about choosing Name Tag Wizard is you’ll get your new photo ID badges really quickly! Most of our orders ship the very next business day, and we always stand behind our product to ensure you’re 100% satisfied with your product. We hope we’ve made designing your new badges a bit easier!

 

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