...the much-too-small type on the name portion of the membership badges aside...
This is a perennial problem. For what it's worth, GameStorm badges this year are straightforward laminated paper. The typeface could be bigger, but there's no art in the way of other things, there's room for long badge names, the legal name is included in smaller type (and gray, less obvious than the badge name), and in general it's a functional con badge. Not as good a piece of art as many I've seen, but I'll accept that as a price for meeting the other criteria.
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This is a perennial problem. For what it's worth, GameStorm badges this year are straightforward laminated paper. The typeface could be bigger, but there's no art in the way of other things, there's room for long badge names, the legal name is included in smaller type (and gray, less obvious than the badge name), and in general it's a functional con badge. Not as good a piece of art as many I've seen, but I'll accept that as a price for meeting the other criteria.