Lanyard ID Badge
A lanyard badge photographed flat — where the colour band across the bottom is a code rather than decoration, so one card implies a whole organisation. Six fields.
We made two examples: an indigo STAFF badge on woven tape, and a rust QUAY ACCESS badge on cotton cord. Two organisations, two codes, one layout: side by side they belong to different places but to the same idea of a badge.
The colour band at the foot is a code, and its word is printed on it in white tracked caps, so the card says what kind of access it gives before it says who you are. The chevron mirrors across the centre and the type ladder holds: domain smallest at the top, name largest, role between. A long name wraps to two lines and makes the ladder taller, and the band takes between a third and two fifths of the card.
Generated for this library
Input
Organisation vibary.ai
Person MAYA ELLIOTT / Library Director
Band deep indigo, meaning STAFF
Lanyard flat woven tape in the same indigo
Geometry a symmetric chevron meeting on the vertical
centreline, its point upward
Palette warm bone card, charcoal type
Returned 1 badge · 2:3 · flat from above, pale grey ground
card rounded PVC, visible edge thickness, slot punched at the
top, chrome lobster clip through it
upper vibary.ai smallest at the top, MAYA ELLIOTT largest
beneath it, Library Director between them in weight
band the lower third in indigo, a symmetric chevron meeting
exactly on the centreline
code STAFF reversed out of the band in white caps, tracked
wide, the second thing the eye reaches
lanyard woven tape falling away to both sides, same indigo,
soft shadow beneathYou fill in 6 fields — the braced lines at the top. Everything below them is fixed.
- 1The organisation
- 2The person, and their role
- 3The band's colour, and what it means
- 4The lanyard
- 5The geometry in the band
- 6The palette
Lanyard ID Badge
What this makes
A lanyard badge photographed flat — where the colour band across the bottom is a code rather than decoration, so one card implies a whole organisation. Six fields.
The whole template, in one piece. The steps below are the entire workflow.
How to use it
- Copy the whole template with the button above.
- Replace the six FIELDS lines. Write the third one as a colour *and* a word — that pairing is the whole idea, and a colour without a word is decoration again.
- Paste it into any image-capable agent or model, in one message. One run returns the badge.
- To build the rest of the system, change only the band colour and its word. Everything else holds, which is what makes it a system rather than a card.
What you swap
- The organisation
- vibary.ai
- The person, and their role
- MAYA ELLIOTT / Library Director
- The band's colour, and what it means
- deep indigo, meaning STAFF
- The lanyard
- flat woven tape in the same indigo
- The geometry in the band
- a symmetric chevron meeting on the vertical centreline, its point upward
- The palette
- warm bone card, charcoal type
Before it runs
- A code worth printing. If the band's colour does not stand for anything, this is a decorated rectangle and any template will do.
- One short word for the code. STAFF, CREW, VISITOR, PRESS, DAY ONE — long enough to mean something, short enough to set large.
- A name that can be set big. The name is the badge; everything else is context for it.
When to reach for it
When an organisation needs credentials: staff passes, visitor badges, conference lanyards, crew accreditation. Templates in this style give the lower half of the card to a gradient that means nothing, and tell you to swap the colours without ever saying what a colour stands for.
What changes
- One realistic badge shot flat from above: PVC card, metal clip, woven lanyard, soft studio light and a clean grey ground.
- The colour band is a code — it names an access level or a role, and the word is printed on the card, so a stranger can read the badge across a room.
- A strict information ladder: organisation smallest, name largest, role between, nothing else.
- Geometry that is actually symmetric when symmetry is asked for, counted rather than described.
- One card that implies twenty: change the band's colour and its word and the rest of the system already exists.
Pairs with
- Flat Scene Illustration SetA set of eight flat scene illustrations on one sheet, held together by a constant that most sets leave unstated — every figure drawn at the same height, standing on the same line. Six fields.
- Art Toy 3D PortraitA soft 3D character portrait in the art-toy idiom — built around choosing a pose that cannot go wrong, because the one thing these renders always break is named and never solved. Six fields.
- Blind-Embossed Shopping BagA blind-embossed shopping bag photographed in raking light — where the pattern has no colour at all and exists only as shadow, so it has to fade the way real relief fades. Six fields.