The style guide should provide enough of a framework to maintain visual consistency across the entire Badge collection, while providing enough flexibility to encourage creativity and variety in future Badge designs.

Examples of Illustration style guides: Atlassian, Behance, Dropbox

Note: It may be possible to extend this illustration style guide to the Node.js project as a whole – a great crossover opportunity with the Website Redesign initiative @oe !

Nodeschool has a great example of a simple badge template to use for custom stickers. Whatever style we land on, we should provide this template and the style guide in a number of formats.

Lets collect examples of badge styles we like from across the web in the discussion below. Then, we can develop a selection of badge style proposals to shop around, collect feedback on, and refine.