The soft enamel badges are your well known traditional pin badges. These are stamped onto a long-lasting copper or brass plate shape they can be super plated in nickel (silver), gilt (gold) or black nickel. The soft enamel badges make super use of raised lines and recessed enamel, it give’s them ridges. Despite their name being soft , its still a hard fee, they are still hard to the touch.
The hard enamel pin badges have a flat shape design and are highly polished and smooth to the touch. instead of sitting below the metal lines, the enamel is layered up and then polished down to the flat level. This results in a flat, smooth surface finish. The hard badge is a slightly better looking badge.