Name Badges

A name badge is the insignia issued by a con which (1) indicates you are a member and (2) tells other members who you are.

(A surprising number of conventions produce badges which fail at one or the other of these tasks, most commonly by neglecting to put the member's name on the badge or by putting it in 6-point type so that others can learn a stranger's name only by means of quite inappropriate familiarity.

In the early days, badges tended to be simple pieces of paper with a name, but more recently, they have become nicely laminated, full-color pieces of art.