1. What the code opens
Listed in our directory? Paste your listing's address so customers land on your page.
Only guest Wi-Fi belongs on a public sign. Anyone who scans can join.
Phones offer to save it straight to contacts.
Opens the spot in the visitor's maps app, for directions to your shop or the boat ramp.
Many phones offer to add it to the calendar. Times are local to whoever scans, so this suits events in Florida.
2. Look and shapes
3. Colors
4. Logo (optional)
Your logo stays on your device. A square logo with a plain background looks best.
5. Frame and caption
The banner and badge frames say SCAN ME when the caption is empty.
6. Fine tuning
Higher tolerance adds more squares but keeps reading when part of the code is scratched, faded or covered.
7. Print size and download
The PNG and JPG carry their DPI, so they open at the right size in print programs. Print shops and sign makers usually want the SVG, which stays sharp at any size.
8. Print a sheet (stickers, table tents, labels)
Write caption | link or text on each line, for numbered tables, rooms, boat slips or event badges. Every code uses the style above. Leave it empty to repeat the code you made.
Save this style
Keep your colors, shapes and frame on this device to reuse on your next code. What's inside the code isn't saved.
What's inside the code
Tips for a code that scans every time
- Watch the check under the preview. The page test-reads every design. If it says the code didn't read, simplify the look: plainer squares, a smaller logo or darker colors.
- Test before you print a batch. Print one, then scan it with two or three different phones, in the light where it will hang.
- Size it for the distance. A common rule of thumb: the code should be about one tenth as wide as the distance people scan from. A 1 inch code works from about 10 inches away; a sign read from 10 feet needs about 12 inches.
- Keep contrast high. Use a dark code on a light background. Light codes on dark backgrounds, pale colors and busy photos often fail.
- Keep the blank margin. Don't crop the border around the code or print text right up against it.
- For print shops, send the SVG. It's a vector file, so it stays sharp on a banner or a truck wrap. Shops may convert colors to CMYK, so very bright colors can print a little duller; deep colors are safest.
- Print at actual size. Choose “Actual size” or 100% in the print window, so a 2 inch code comes out 2 inches wide.
- Outdoors, on a truck or a boat? Pick a higher damage tolerance so it still reads when it's scratched, wet or faded by the sun. Matte finishes cut glare.
- Keep web addresses short. Shorter content makes bigger squares that scan faster and print smaller.
- Changing your website later? Point the code at a page you'll keep, like your This Is Florida listing, so you never have to reprint.
These codes don't expire and don't track scans, because they hold your information directly instead of going through a redirect service. QR Code is a registered trademark of DENSO WAVE INCORPORATED. Uses the QR Code Generator library by Kazuhiko Arase (MIT license) and the jsQR reader by Cosmo Wolfe (Apache License 2.0).