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Are there any conventional names for these informational labels?

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@Patrick McElhaney Thanks! – whyzee Oct 15 '11 at 6:10
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Sure thing. Based on the kind of answers it's getting, this question might be better suited for the graphic design site. (Don't repost the question, though. I'll migrate the questions and answers together if there are no objections.) – Patrick McElhaney Oct 15 '11 at 15:09
I'm fine with that :) – whyzee Oct 16 '11 at 5:39

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Good question :) struggled with the same problem when I tried to communicate this to a graphics designer. Ended up just sending a link to an image...

"corner banner"?

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Haha! So true. I know Themeforest calls it a "sash". Maybe we could think of a name for it. – whyzee Oct 15 '11 at 6:12
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I like "Sash", I must admit I've seen these more than a few times and never known what to call them. – Ben Brocka♦ Oct 15 '11 at 12:31
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I call it ribbon, but I am not aware of an "official" name.

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GitHub calls them ribbons. – Patrick McElhaney Oct 15 '11 at 11:34
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I don't know of any generally accepted word for them, but if we are going to keep to the closest analogy in English they would be:

Sash - when it is shown as a piece of fabric across or around an item.

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Ribbon - when the end of the ribbon is shown. Many awards are given in this way and they are almost always called ribbons.

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A note of caution about using Ribbon though; as Microsoft may have beaten you to it with their Office Ribbon UI. – JonW♦ Oct 17 '11 at 8:48
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We used to call them a "flash", which was confusing when compared to Adobe flash. It was used for any sort of addition to an image like "sale", "new in" or whatever. It was used irrespective of the style ( the term "sash" implies a particular style, but some clients used strips across the bottom or top or anywhere ).

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I call these labels tags. Simply.

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If you could elaborate a little and maybe come up with some proof of your answer, it would provide more value to the OP and others reading your answer in the future! – Benny Skogberg Feb 10 at 20:40
If you google Corner Ribbon and Corner Tags, you'd see that results for corner ribbon are somewhat more accurate. Do you have any references? – edgarator Feb 10 at 22:57

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They're all different types of Ribbon. The first one is a wrapping ribbon and the second one is a hanging ribbon. You also find the banner ribbon a lot if you just purely search for 'ribbon'. This ribbon pack is from Code Canyon.

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Nice that you also provided the link for the pack of ribbons! :) – Samuel M Feb 10 at 16:08

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