Guidelines for Stationery Templates

  • Adhere to correct fields. 
  • Avoid abbreviations. 
  • Avoid hyphens. 
  • Avoid including “https://” in your web address. 
  • Avoid including “www” in your web address, unless necessary for the site to work. 
  • Evenly distribute words between lines (i.e., don’t leave a word alone on a line). 
  • Be sure to use official department/office names and titles. 
  • Be consistent. For instance, if you are using ampersands or hyphens, use them throughout. 
  • Put pronouns in the first title field and keep in lowercase, no parenthesis (e.g., she/her/hers, they/them/theirs). 
Designed layout with examples of UConn stationery.

Guidelines for Stationery Templates Specific to UConn Health

  • Adhere to correct fields. 
  • Avoid abbreviations. Spell everything out. 
  • Avoid hyphens and ampersands. 
  • Avoid including “https://” and “www” in your web address. 
  • Keep the default health.uconn.edu web address. Use an alternative if appropriate; not to exceed one line on the front of the card. 
  • Be sure to use official department/office names and titles. Outside designations are not allowed. 
  • Avoid periods between degrees, MD, PhD, APRN. 
  • Don’t use UConn Health in the address. 
  • Use UConn School of Medicine and UConn School of Dental Medicine. 
  • Mail code format: MC XXXX. Don’t use MC-XXXX or MCXXXX. 
  • Room number format: AG050. Don’t use AG-050 or AG 050. 
  • Use numbers for floors, e.g., 1st Floor, 2nd Floor. 
  • Keep the email address in lowercase. 
  • Put pronouns in the first title field and keep in lowercase, no parenthesis (e.g., she/her/hers, they/them/theirs).
Designed layout with examples of UConn Health stationery.

Student Business Cards 

Student business cards are available through the Document Production Center. The redesigned student business cards are more in line with university standards on business cards for faculty and staff, thus providing a higher quality outcome for those students that desire university business cards. 

Visual example of a student business card.

Name Badges

To ensure a consistent and professionally branded look, the University has developed name badge templates and standards for employee name badges.

  • Depending on the size of the name tag, different brand elements may be used including different variations of the primary wordmark, as well as second and third tier wordmarks, and the Oak Leaf.
  • Name badges should be ordered in one of the following finishes:
    • Brushed metal gold with navy or black imprint
    • Brushed metal silver with navy or black imprint
    • Plastic navy blue with white imprint
    • Plastic white with navy imprint

Please reach out to anna.milot@uconn.edu if you would like help with designing a layout for your name badges. Use one of the licensed and approved vendors to order name badges.

Six UConn name badge designs with varying layouts, colors, and department labels. Each includes placeholders for name, pronouns, title, and office.

Layout Examples

The full selection of official stationery templates, including business cards, printed and electronic letterhead, envelopes, etc., is available through the following: