Badges

Badges appear next to your username on your profile. Some are granted by the system, some are claimed, and some you create yourself.

Where badges come from

The system badges

Leaderboard Rank and Views are the two that are never granted to you — they are recomputed from your live numbers, so they appear and disappear on their own.

Claiming

Badges that need claiming show a Tap to claim your badge prompt. Seasonal badges are only claimable while they are available; once the window closes, that month's badge is gone.

Creating a custom badge

Use Create Custom Badge: give it a name and an icon, and it joins your badge row. Custom badges are cosmetic — they carry no status.

Order and visibility

You choose which badges are shown and in what order. Hiding a badge does not remove it from your account; it only stops rendering it on the profile.

The three-dot menu of a badge row holds a few extra choices. On Verified, Verified appearance picks where the mark sits: In badge row with the other badges, or Beside nickname, right after your name. On Donator, Choose your badge picks which of the tiers you own is shown — the highest tier unlocks every tier below it.

Colour and shimmer

Customize in the Badges header opens Badge Customization, which holds every colour setting for the badge row.

Both tabs offer the same two modes:

• Theme — follows your profile's accent colour, so the badges restyle themselves whenever you change your palette.
• Custom — one fixed colour you pick.

Gradient badges

In Custom on the Icon Color tab you also choose how the colour is painted:

• Colour — one flat tone across every badge.
• Gradient — two or three colours blended across the badge. The 2 colours / 3 colours buttons beside the mode decide how many swatches you get.

The blend runs across each badge individually, not once across the whole row, so a badge at the end of the row carries the same full gradient as the first one. It applies to vector badges and to image badges alike.

Icon Shimmer

On the Shimmer Color tab, Icon Shimmer adds a highlight that runs along the badge row, brightening each badge in turn. It is at its most visible when the shimmer colour differs from the badge colour — a white shimmer on white badges has almost nothing to work with, because white cannot get any brighter.

Shimmer style picks how the shine moves:

• Pulse — the highlight brightens across the badge and fades, in place.
• Sweep down — the highlight travels down through the badge on a diagonal.
• Sweep up — the same diagonal highlight, travelling up through the badge.

The two are a matter of taste rather than one being better: Pulse reads as a soft heartbeat down the row, Sweep down as a light passing over it. Both keep each badge's own colour and brighten toward the shimmer colour as they pass.

Sweep up is the same light as Sweep down, moving through the badge from the bottom to the top instead.

The arrows on the badge capsule stay unstyled on purpose — they are navigation, not badges, so no tint, gradient or shimmer is applied to them.

Customizing one badge

Any badge can have a look of its own. Open the ⋯ menu on its row and use the brush — it opens Customize: … with the badge's name, holding the same two tabs as Badge Customization.

• Icon Color — the Badge Color switch, then Colour or Gradient. A single colour follows your profile Theme or is Custom; a gradient takes 2 colours or 3 colours.
• Shimmer Color — the Icon Shimmer switch, its style, and a Theme or Custom shimmer colour.

The window starts from your global badge settings, and every change applies to this badge only. Once the badge has settings of its own, a reset button appears next to the title and returns it to the global settings.

A colour set here always wins over the global tint, and unlike the global tint it also applies to image badges you uploaded yourself — picking a colour for one specific badge is taken as an instruction to recolour it.

View badges

The dashboard also has view-based badges that unlock as your profile grows. They follow your Analytics numbers automatically — there is nothing to claim.