Conference badges is a subject on which I have some fairly strong opinions. I designed the badges for EP 2003 and EP 2004.
- The first and foremost function of the badge is to show the wearers name so that others can read it. This means that the name should be as large as it reasonably can, in a font that is as readable as possible. Using all capitals reduces readability. If you want to distinguish between christian name and surname, write them on different lines. Make the text black on white, for the best contrast. You can colour the rest of the badge all you like, but keep a white background for the name. - Other things that need to be on the badge are an indication that the badge is for EP2008 (showing that the wearer is accredited at the conference) and other useful information about the person. I put the country code of the participants home country, the persons organisation and the email address on the badge. IRC nick and interests at the conference are other useful ideas. Showing if the person is staff, speaker etc is also a good piece of information. - An important observation is that there is an enormous difference in the length of people's names. It is nice to vary the size of the font to adapt to this. Otherwise just about everyone has a lot of unused space on their badge. The longest christian name in 2004 was Jean-Phillipe and the longest surname was Nordgård-Hansen. The longest email address was [EMAIL PROTECTED] - I think it is important to keep the amount of information on the badge small. Anything that doesn't have a clear function and use should be removed. In Edward Tufte's terminology, there shouldn't be any "chart junk". Jacob Hallén _______________________________________________ Europython-improve mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/europython-improve
