Optional Extras for Your Customised Medals

Custom Medals

What Optional Extras Can I Add to Personalise a Custom Medal?

Bespoke Medals offers an unparalleled selection of optional extras, letting you personalise your custom medals with design features that add movement, texture, functionality, and even digital experiences. 

Whether you’re designing customised medals for a marathon, charity event, or corporate challenge, these enhancements let you create something that reflects your event while giving finishers an even more meaningful keepsake.

From interactive moving parts to specialist enamel finishes, many features can be combined within the same medal design. Explore our collections of unique optional extras.

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What Special Visual Effects and Finishes Can Make a Finisher Medal Stand Out?

The options are endless. Special visual effects you can choose from include holographics, enamelling, flashing lights, and gemstone and crystal inserts. You can also create a tactile experience with faux fur or feather details in your bespoke design. These finishing touches can have a significant impact on the final appearance of your medal.

Not Sure Which Optional Extras Are Right for Your Medal?

Spoilt for choice? With so many finishes, interactive features, and functional upgrades available, it can be difficult to know which options will work best for your event.

That’s where our free design service comes in. Our experienced design team can recommend optional extras that complement your custom medal as they create your bespoke design.

From your initial concept through to production, we make it easy to create custom medals UK participants will be proud to receive.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How Do Interactive Features Like Spinning, Sliding, and Interlocking Medals Work?

Interactive medals add movement so participants can engage with the design.

Popular options include:

  • Spinning medals—multiple pieces of the medal can spin, perfect for an eye-catching complex design
  • Sliding medals—sliding components can be incorporated into most of our bespoke medal designs, and can feature anything from runners on a track to competitors trying to beat a train!
  • Interlocking medals—popular  for race series, where participants collect several medals over multiple events that they can combine into a larger stand-out design

Can You Add Digital Features Like QR Codes or iTAB Badges?

Yes, depending on the style of medal chosen, QR codes can be added to your custom medals. These may include links to race results, event photography, charity donation pages, or finish-line videos.

iTAB badges are another popular upgrade, allowing participants to personalise their medal with details such as their name and finishing time after the race.

These additions help transform a medal into a lasting personal reminder of the entire event experience.

What Unique Functions Can Be Built Into a Medal, Like Bottle Openers or Photo Holders?

You can transform your bespoke medal with functional features that make it practical as well as eye-catching. Turn your custom medal into a multi-tool or keep cherished memories close with integral photo holders. Optional functional features include:

  • Bottle openers
  • Bike tools
  • Photo holders

These practical additions create medals that participants are more likely to keep, display, and use long after the event has finished.

How Do Glow in the Dark, Translucent, and Glitter Effects Alter a Medal Design?

Special enamel finishes help create medals that stand out in different lighting conditions.

Popular effects include:

  • Glow-in-the-dark enamelling
  • Glitter enamelling
  • Translucent effects
  • Duotone medals with gold, silver, or bronze accents

These options add personality while helping reinforce the theme of your event, whether that’s a night run, festive race, or charity challenge.

What's the Difference Between 2D and 3D Detailed Medal Moulding?

The depth of your medal has a significant impact on how it looks and feels.

2D medals feature raised and recessed surfaces with clean, defined levels, making them ideal for logos, typography and bold graphic designs.

3D medals use sculpted contours and varying depths to create a more lifelike appearance, making them perfect for landmarks, mascots, faces and intricate artwork.

Choosing between 2D and 3D depends on your design, budget, and the level of detail you want to achieve. Our design team can advise on the most suitable option during the design process.

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We offer a FREE in-house design service

On acceptance of a quote, we will send you a design within 3 – 4 working days – above all it’s FREE no matter what size your order! Simply send us your guidelines with any logos and we will do the rest.

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