AI Certificate Generator — awards and course certificates with the exact name

A certificate is a claim that someone issued it. Making one that pretends to come from a school, university, exam board, licensing body or government is forgery, and using it to get a job, a licence, admission or a visa is fraud. Kenerate's AI certificate generator is for awards and recognition you give yourself.

The cases are real: the FTC closed an online diploma mill that took more than $11 million for worthless high school diplomas, and federal prosecutors charged people over fake nursing diplomas and transcripts used to sit the nursing licensing exam. States such as Maine make it a crime to issue or use a false academic degree.

• No degrees, diplomas or transcripts — real or invented universities and schools.
• No professional licences or certifications (nursing, medical, legal, trades, IT exams).
• No government documents: IDs, birth, marriage or death certificates, visas, permits.
• No real institution's seal, crest or logo, and no imitation of a real person's signature.

Pixels are at 300 DPI, the usual print resolution:

• US Letter landscape, 11×8.5 in: 3300×2550 px; with 0.125 in bleed 11.25×8.75 in, 3375×2625 px.
• A4 landscape, 297×210 mm: 3508×2480 px.
• Portrait certificates: the same sizes turned on end — generate at 3:4.
• Generate at 4:3, then upscale with the Image Upscaler (3 credits, up to 8K) before printing.
• Leave a plain margin: Letter (1.29:1) and A4 (1.41:1) aren't exactly 4:3, so the border absorbs the difference.

Swap in your own words and keep every line in quotes:

• Classic award: cream paper texture, gold double border, laurel emblem at top, “Certificate of Achievement”, “Priya Raman” in large script, “12 October 2026”, empty signature line.
• Employee of the month: navy and silver, a simple star emblem, “Employee of the Month”, “Daniel Osei”, “October 2026”, your logo top-centre unchanged.
• Volunteer appreciation: soft green with a hand-drawn leaf border, “Certificate of Appreciation”, “Maria Lopez”, “for 200 hours at Riverside Food Bank”.
• Workshop completion: clean white with one teal rule, “Certificate of Completion”, “Intro to Watercolour — 6-week workshop”, “Tom Becker”, organiser line left blank.
• Hackathon: dark charcoal with a circuit-line border, “Hack Night 2026 — Participant”, “Aisha Khan”, neon blue accents.
• Kids' reading challenge: bright primary colours, a stack of books illustration, “Super Reader”, “Leo”, “read 25 books this summer”.
• Sports day: green field stripes, a gold medal emblem, “1st Place — 100 m Sprint”, “Sam Ortiz”.
• Science fair: blueprint-blue background, atom emblem, “Science Fair — Best Project”, “Hana Sato”.
• Speaker thank-you: minimal black and white, thin serif type, “Thank you for speaking at DesignDays 2026”, “Elena Petrova”.
• Retirement: warm burgundy and gold, “In grateful recognition of 30 years of service”, “Robert Hale”.
• Charity run: orange and white, a running shoe line icon, “Finisher — 10K Charity Run 2026”, “Grace Kim”.
• Family award: playful hand-lettered style, “World's Best Dad”, a coffee mug doodle, “from Mia and Noah”.
• Pet award: pastel blue, a paw-print border, “Goodest Boy Award”, “Biscuit”.
• Gift voucher for your own café: kraft-paper look, “Gift Voucher — One Free Coffee”, “Ember Café”, blank “Valid until” line.

The reliable way to make thirty certificates is one generation, then names as real text:

• Generate the design with the name line empty: “leave a blank space for the recipient's name”.
• Open it in Edit Studio, add a Text layer, pick a serif such as Playfair Display or DM Serif Display, and type the first name.
• Download, change the name, download again — text layers are free, so this costs no credits.
• For a long list, put the blank design behind a mail-merge field in Word, Google Docs or Canva's bulk create.
• Print one test copy and check the name sits centred inside the border before printing the rest.