Design Your Badge Graphic [May 28, 2012, 12:39 p.m.]

Badge Design Essentials

You can use whatever design tools you're comfortable with to build a badge and submit it to the group. The basic elements a badge should have are:

PLEASE UPDATE:
width?
vectored?
file size?
transparent?

If you're not a graphic design guru, use this excellent tutorial provided by community member Jose using Inkscape (open source) to design a badge:

Using Inkscape to Design Badges

This task is a guide on how to make a badge for your challenge using Inkscape and an almost ready to go template. The first step will be to download and install Inkscape and the resources needed which have been compressed into this resources file.

Inkscape is an Open Source Vector Graphics editor. For a generic introduction to inkscape feel free to watch this video tutorial which is the first part of an 11 parts series.

The resources file contains a template file called P2PU_Badge_Template_v1.svg, and a font file called Princeton Normal.ttf, which is the font used for the P2PU logo. Installing a font is a platform specific task so to install Princeton Normal in your particular computer please use your favourite engine to search for "install fonts XXXX" where XXXX is Mac, Linux, or Windows. If you are having any problems please leave a comment and we will help you out.

Once the font is installed in your system, all you need to do is open the svg provided template and start modifying it, as explained in the next section.