I don’t know how many of you saw the comment on QR Codes on Steroids Part 2 from my reader, Jason.
He shared a fabulous site where you could get colored QR codes and also change the ‘eyes,’ change how rounded the module was, use a template, or add a graphic or logo to it.
The site is Unitag. Using this site is super easy and pretty much self explanatory.
You can customize the code so there is a logo in the middle (they have some already made up) or put your own image behind the code.
Isn’t that cool?
Here is a code that I created with an image of a flag in it. You can tell there’s a flag if you look really, really close. (FYI: If your graphic won’t work, you might want to re-size it so it’s smaller.)
You might need to adjust the opacity and/or brightness, too.
Make sure you test your code before you download it because sometimes graphics can make your QR code unreadable. It wouldn’t be fun to have a code that didn’t work.
The squarish design in the three corners are the ‘eyes’ of the code. You can have different shape of eyes. You can also have the external part of the eyes be different colors than the internal eye color and different than the rest of the code. (Notice below that the eye color in the three eyes are different.)
NOTE: be careful of the intensity (or lack thereof) of the colors that you select. There needs to be a high contrast between the background color (white in this case) and the color of the code. If you use pastel colors, your QR reader won’t be able to read the code.
So much fun!
Thank you, Jason, for sharing this site!
