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There are "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" that are relevant to badges. For instance #6, people’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space
by extra88 8y ago
There are "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" that are relevant to badges. For instance #6, people’s names fit within a certain defined amount of space; names being in 64 point type is good unless will make a name wrap to another line.
Most conferences are not multilingual and it's reasonable to write names in an alphabet understood by most attendees. Something helpful is if given name and family name are to be styled differently, that that actually be done, don't just make the name that comes first different.
- ghaff 8y agoWhat mostly tends to happen in practice is that people come up with simplified/shortened versions of their name for name badges (whether full conference badges or just informal sticky-type badges).
- signal11 8y agoThis isn't just conference-specific. I know people from cultures where long names are quite common. Just like Theodore contracts to Ted, there's a reasonably simple culture-specific way of shortening them, and most of them do shorten them, e.g. Venkataramarajan to Venkat or Consolación to Conny. Note that often the contraction isn't obviously related to the original name (e.g. William => Bill). This is why any system that takes names should have a way to specify a "Display Name", which may or may not follow the firstname lastname pattern. Particularly when those names need to be printed out for conferences.