Yes, you can add a custom logo to any badge built with the Navigatr Badge Framework. You can set your organisation's logo once in your Brand Kit so every badge uses it, or upload a different logo to a single badge. This guide covers both, and how to prepare a badge logo that looks sharp every time.
If you haven't made your badge yet, start with Creating a Badge.
Which logo each badge needs
A badge's mode decides its background, and the background decides which version of your logo it needs. You'll want two versions: a black or full-colour logo, and a white one (sometimes called a mono, reversed or knockout logo). Most brand packs include both.
Mode | Background | Logo to use |
Explore, Deepen, Apply | Light: your logo sits on white | Black or full colour |
Teach | Grey, or a colour you choose | White |
Lead | Dark | White |
New to modes? See Navigatr Badge Framework.
Tip: Give Teach badges a dark colour, so your white logo stands out.
Preparing your logo
Three things make the difference between a logo that looks crisp and one that looks lost.
Save it as a PNG with a transparent background. The logo upload takes PNG files. A transparent background lets the badge show through, instead of a white box.
Crop it tight. Trim away all the empty space around your logo, right up to its edges, without cutting into the logo itself. We shrink your logo to fit the space on the badge, so any empty margin in the file makes the logo smaller.
Use the recommended size. 800 x 800 pixels for a square logo, or 2400 x 1200 pixels for a rectangular one. We never enlarge a logo, so a small file looks small on the badge.
Square and landscape logos fill the space best. Very tall or very narrow logos come out small, so use a wider version of your logo if you have one.
A brief for your designer
If someone else looks after your logo files, copy this and send it to them:
Please send me two PNG versions of our logo for our digital badges:
1. Black or full colour, for light backgrounds.
2. All white, for dark backgrounds.
Each file needs a transparent background and should be cropped tight to the edges of the logo, with no empty space around it. Please make a square logo 800 x 800 pixels, or a rectangular logo 2400 x 1200 pixels.
Adding your logo to every badge
The quickest way is to set your logos once in your Brand Kit. We then pick the right version for each badge's mode automatically.
Open Settings from the admin sidebar and scroll to Brand Kit.
Under Default logos for badges, click the edit icon beside Regular Logo and upload your black or full-colour logo.
Click the edit icon beside Mono Logo and upload your white logo.
Click Save when the "You have unsaved changes" bar appears.
Important note: Upload both versions. Without a Mono Logo, your Teach and Lead badges show no logo at all.
New badges use your Brand Kit logos straight away. To bring an existing badge up to date, open it, click Reset badge, then Save. Reset badge also clears any custom colour, title or subtitle on that badge.
Adding a logo to a single badge
Use this when one badge needs a different logo, such as a partner's or a programme's own mark. The Upload logo option appears on badges that use the Navigatr Badge Framework.
Go to Content > Badges and open the badge.
In the Image section, click Upload logo and choose your PNG file.
Check the preview. Under Upload logo you'll see "Badge currently using a custom logo".
Click Save.
Matching the logo to the mode
We don't swap a logo you upload to a single badge when you change its mode, and we don't check that it can be seen. A white logo disappears on an Explore, Deepen or Apply badge, and a black logo disappears on a Lead badge. If you move the badge to a different mode, check the preview and upload the other version if you need to.
On a Teach badge, always upload the white version. If you give the badge a light colour, we reverse the colours of an uploaded logo so it stays visible. That turns a white logo black, but a full-colour logo comes out in negative colours.
To go back to your Brand Kit logos, click Reset badge.
Using your own badge colour
Apply and Teach badges can also take your own colour, whatever their type. Add it under Brand colours in your Brand Kit and it appears in Change colour on every badge. For a one-off colour, click the bar under Current Selection and pick any shade. See Designing Badge Images for more on colours.
Tip: Not sure your logo will work? Ask Aiden in the chat, or email [email protected].