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Name tag maker

A name, a title or a room number as a 3D-printable tag: a badge for an event, a plate for a desk or a door, a tag for a dog's collar or a suitcase, a keychain, a cake topper or a puzzle for a toddler's name.

What is it for?

Each one sets a shape, a size, a font and a way to wear or hang it. Your words stay when you switch.

The words

Name Second line Third line Font

Bold CAPITALS

Line up

Letter height Smaller lines Letter spacing Line spacing

Shape and size

Width (mm) Height (mm)

Grow to fit the name, keeping the letter height

Thickness Round the corners Space around the words

Lettering

Raised by Border

Border width Border in from the edge

Print it face-down, for a smooth or textured face from the build plate

Icon

Where

The icon takes the third colour, with the border and the pattern.

QR code

A link, a phone number or any text

Size

It prints in the lettering colour. Print it in two colours (or swap filament at the pause) so a phone can read it, and keep the squares at 0.8 mm or more: shorter text makes bigger squares.

On the back

Text engraved on the back (a new line, or |, starts a line) Letter height

Cut 0.6 mm into the back, mirrored so it reads the right way when you turn the tag over. It moves below the magnets or the pin if there are some.

Braille

Add a line of Braille under the words

Braille text

Grade 1 (uncontracted) Braille, sized like signs in public buildings: domed dots 1.5 mm across and 0.6 mm high, 2.5 mm apart, cells 6.2 mm apart. Print it face up with fine layers. Signs that must meet a building code usually need Grade 2 and other checks: ask a Braille reader or your local rules before you rely on it.

Background pattern

Pattern size

A fine texture over the plate that keeps clear of the words, raised or cut in like the lettering, up to 0.4 mm.

Hang it, pin it, stand it

Hole size Stake length

Magnets in the back

Magnet size (diameter × thickness)

Hidden inside: pause the print to drop them in

Hidden magnets sit under 0.6 mm of plastic, strong enough through a shirt with a second magnet or a steel plate inside. Open pockets are glued in after printing. Check which way each magnet faces before you close them in.

Bar pin on the back

A shallow recess the size of a stick-on safety-pin bar, in the top half so the badge doesn't tip forward.

Stand

Lean back

Colours

Tag Lettering Icon, border, pattern

Your layer height (for the colour change)

Download

The STL has one solid for each piece. The laser SVG is the outline and holes to cut, and the words, icon and border to engrave, at real size.

Many names at once

One tag per line. Split the lines of a tag with a tab, ; or a comma, as pasted from a spreadsheet.

The same letter size on every tag (the longest name sets it)

Build plate width (mm) Build plate depth (mm)

The zip has a 3MF and an STL for each name, and the tags laid out on build plates of your size, ready to print in one go.

Free for personal use, and for selling up to $5,000 a year with a TerraPrinter credit. Bigger sellers need a commercial license. License

How the name tags work

Letters that fit

The words are real outlines from the font, set to the letter height you pick. If they don't fit the shape, with the space you asked for around them and clear of every hole, they shrink until they do, and the page tells you the size they came out at. Letters a font lacks come from a fallback font, so names like Łukasz or Zoë print whole.

Three ways to letter

Raised letters stand up off the plate for a colour change at one layer. Engraved letters are cut in, for one colour or a wash of paint. Flush letters sit in pockets level with the face, for a multi-colour printer, and look best printed face-down on a smooth or textured plate.

Made to be used

A lanyard slot takes the usual 13 mm clip. Screw holes are countersunk for a No. 6 or M3.5 screw. Magnet pockets get 0.3 mm extra for a press fit, and the plate thickens itself when something inside needs room. The slot stand leaves 0.45 mm of play for the tag.

A whole event

Paste a list of names from a spreadsheet and get a tag for each, all with the same letter size, laid out on your build plate so a table of badges prints in one go.

Fonts: Jost, Work Sans, Bebas Neue, IBM Plex Sans Condensed, Josefin Sans, Tilt Neon, Space Mono, Playfair Display, DM Serif Display, Fraunces, Cormorant Garamond and Shippori Mincho (SIL Open Font License). Icons: Boxicons (MIT). QR codes: qrcode-generator by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT); QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE. More to make: map keychains, ornaments, your home in 3D, or every gift maker.