A new custom badge for your organization can help unify the team, display a sense of trust in the community, and forge partnerships among all department members. With a custom badge, you can select your backing design, attachment, crest, lettering, symbols, and more.
Irvin H. Hahn is proud to help you design your custom badge to the exact look you want. Learn more about how long a custom badge takes, a personalized vs a fully custom design badge, what to do if you need to rush order your custom badge, and what options you have for a custom badge design.
How Long Does a Custom Badge Take?
Most personalized custom badge orders are ready to ship within 30 – 45 days of the order being placed. However, this timeline can be shorter or longer based on different factors, like personalizing a custom badge template vs designing a custom badge from scratch.
Learn what impacts a custom badge order and how you can plan your next custom badge order for your department to have them ready and delivered on time.
Designing a Custom Badge
Designing a custom badge can mean one of two things: personalizing a pre-designed badge with select options or designing a custom badge from scratch, including everything from the initial design through the lettering options, preferred for departments looking to incorporate unique features, mottos, or ways to symbolize their organization values.
Personalizing a Custom Badge:
- Select metal finishes, including gold and silver
- Lettering options, including font and color
- Personalized text
- Soft or hard enamel to change the appearance of the text
- Center seal, pre-designed or custom to your department
- Attachment type
- Flat or curved shape
Fully Designing a Custom Badge:
- Design a unique shape for your custom badge
- Select where the text is placed
- Full control over letting, font, color, enamel, and more
- Send us your crest or design a custom crest for your organization
- Select from any of our backing or attachment options
- Choose your colors, metal finishes, and any other finishing touches
- Include unique features like a city skyline, department motto, anniversary or achievement, and more
Pros of a Personalized Custom Badge
- No minimum order quantity
- Easy to design
- Simplified ordering process
- Fast delivery
Pros of a Fully Designed Custom Badge
- Honor your city, location, mottos, anniversaries, or achievements
- Unique design specific to your organization
- Exact design you want without compromise
- Long-lasting quality worth the investment
Ordering Process for Personalized and Full Custom Badges
Personalized Custom Badge Process
- Select a pre-designed badge style (shop all badges to see designs to choose from)
- Select your customization options and input exactly what you want from the options available (varies by design)
- See your price directly in your checkout cart, along with estimated shipping and delivery times
- Place your order and follow up with our excellent customer support staff if you have any questions
Full Custom Badge Order Process
Unlike a personalized badge, which is ordered from a pre-designed template, you will get in touch with our design team to personally design the badge you want. We will consult on designs, shapes, possibilities, finishes, metal types, attachments, fonts, placement, crests, and more.
Fully designed custom badges give you that personal touch that perfectly represents your department without compromise. Custom badge orders, also known as concept designs, are offered for departments of 50 or more orders. The overall delivery time expected for a fully designed custom badge is about 3 to 6 months, starting from the date of consultation and including the design, approval, working, and confirmation process through to creation, manufacturing, final approval, and shipping.
Concept badge orders are popular for including city skylines, core department or organization values, notable anniversaries or achievements, landmarks, historic buildings, meaningful symbols or mottos, and more. Full custom badges further the pride in your organization by representing the symbols that mean the most to your department and wearing them with honor every day on the job.
Can a Custom Badge Order Be Rushed?
In some instances, you need your custom badge order before the 30-45 days for a personalized badge or the several months for a fully designed badge. In some cases, Irvin H. Hahn is able to accommodate a request for a rush order.
If you need a rush order on your custom badge, you can email our customer service team with your design idea(s) and preferred delivery date and we will let you know what is possible. Rush orders will incur a higher cost than traditional custom badge orders. We will work with you however possible to make your custom badge order happen.
Begin Your Custom Badge Order with Irvin H. Hahn
Since 1898, Irvin H. Hahn has been manufacturing custom badges for departments and organizations across the United States. Based in Baltimore, MD, we are proud to be family-owned and operated, delivering personalized customer service to our clients.
We can work with you on unique designs, rush orders, personalized badges, shipping questions, design concerns, and more. We are here to bring your badge to life, all created with a long-lasting quality that works as hard as you do.
Put your faith in a badge you can trust, contact Irvin H. Hahn today for a custom badge or shop our personalized custom badge templates today.
Irvin H. Hahn
We are a family-owned business that takes pride in being an American manufacturer for over 120 years since 1898. Located in Baltimore, MD, we have six generations of experience making handcrafted badges, buckles, cap devices, collar insignia, and other insignia for law enforcement, fire departments, and other officials.
