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Name tag maker
Type a name, pick a size, print the sheet. No account, no watermark, no limit on how many.
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About the name tag maker
A name tag is the disposable one. It goes on for a morning — a workshop, a first day, a church hall, a training room — and it comes off with the jacket at lunchtime. That changes what belongs on it: usually a first name, in type big enough to read while you are shaking hands.
The default here is 3 × 2 inches, the size of nearly every adhesive badge sold in a stationery shop, and ten of them fit on a US Letter sheet. Add one name or paste in the whole class, and each tag is built from the same design. Whatever you type stays in this browser tab.
Printing the tags rather than writing them means nobody has to decipher handwriting at the door, and you can hand out a stack that is already in the order of your register.
Your badge data stays in your browser. Names, spreadsheets and photos are never uploaded, and never reach any analytics. Your work is saved on this device only.
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Templates for this
Each one opens in the editor with the fields already set up. Change anything you like.
What goes on a name tag
- Name
{{name}} - Usually the first name on its own. A tag people wear for one morning exists to start a conversation, and "Priya" does that better than "Priyanka Raghunathan" set four points smaller.
- Company
{{company}} - Only when the room is mixed. At an internal training session it is the same word on all thirty tags, which is space you could have given the name.
- Role
{{role}} - Worth keeping when it tells someone what to expect — Facilitator, Table host, Trainer. Worth cutting when it is a job title, because a job title in 8pt type is read by nobody.
- Pronouns
{{pronouns}} - A short line under the name. Leave the field in the project and let people fill it or leave it blank, rather than making a second design for the people who want one.
Anything in double braces is filled in per person. Put {{name}} on the badge once and it becomes every name on your list.
How it works
Four steps, and none of them is signing up.
- 1
Decide first name or full name
Set the name field to whatever you will actually print. First name only for a workshop or a class. First and last where the tag doubles as a register and two Sarahs would cause trouble.
- 2
Match the tag to your stickers
3 × 2 inches fits the standard adhesive badge sheet. If you bought something else, peel one label off and measure it, then set a custom size before you lay any text out.
- 3
Add everyone
Type names in one at a time, or import a CSV of the sign-up list and map the columns. Rows that are completely empty are skipped, so a spreadsheet with gaps at the bottom imports cleanly.
- 4
Print and peel
Print at 100% onto the label sheet, or onto card and cut along the crop marks. Run one test page on plain paper first — it costs a sheet and saves the pack.
Name tag or name badge?
The words get used interchangeably, but the objects are different. A name tag is paper or a sticker, it carries a first name, and it goes in the bin at the end of the day. A badge is card or plastic in a holder, it carries a surname and usually a company or a role, and it comes back at the end of the conference.
That difference decides the design. A tag can give the whole surface to one word, so set the name at 30 points or more and leave the rest of the card empty. A badge has to carry two or three lines in a hierarchy, so the name takes about two thirds of the height and everything under it is deliberately smaller.
First name only is the right call more often than people expect: workshops, classes, church halls, team days, anywhere the point is that strangers can say hello without squinting. Print full names when the tag is also a record — a training register, a delegate list, anything where somebody has to match a tag to a row in a spreadsheet afterwards.
- One morning, strangers, sticker sheet: first name only, 3 × 2 in tag
- Three days, lanyards, a delegate list: full name and company, 3 × 4 in badge
- The same team every week: a printed insert in a reusable holder, surname included
Name tag sizes
| Badge | Size | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| Standard adhesive tag | 3 × 2 in · 76.2 × 50.8 mm | What most stick-on badge sheets are cut to. 10 per US Letter page. |
| Large tag | 4 × 3 in · 101.6 × 76.2 mm | Bigger type for a hall or a noisy room. 3 per US Letter page, or 6 if you drop the margins to a quarter inch. |
| Clip holder insert | 3.5 × 2.25 in · 88.9 × 57.15 mm | Reusable plastic holders with a pin or a crocodile clip. |
| Credit-card size | 3.37 × 2.13 in · 85.6 × 54 mm | CR80, for when the tag has to fit a holder you already own. |
Set the size before you position anything. Changing it later moves your text around and you end up laying it out twice.
Questions
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