Every short link can produce a QR code, and you can style it so it looks like it belongs to you rather than to a generic generator.
Make one
Open a short link and go to its QR code, or use Create a QR Code from the Shorts page. Style it with:
- Colors — foreground and background. Keep strong contrast; a pale code on a pale background is the usual reason one won't scan.
- Dots, Corners, and Eyes — the shape of the pattern and the three squares at the corners.
- Center logo — drop your mark in the middle. QR codes carry enough redundancy that a modest logo doesn't break them; an oversized one does.
Click Save style to keep it, then download as PNG, JPG, or SVG.
Which file to download
- SVG for anything printed. It stays sharp at any size, from a business card to a banner.
- PNG for screens, slides, and email.
- JPG only if something you're using demands it — it's the worst of the three for a hard-edged black-and-white pattern.
Before you print a thousand of them
- Scan it yourself, from the actual printed proof, with more than one phone.
- Give it quiet space — a QR code crowded up against other artwork scans badly.
- Don't go smaller than about an inch square for anything held in the hand, and considerably bigger for anything read across a room.
- Put the short link in text next to it. Some people won't scan a code, and the link costs you one line.
Because the code points at your short link rather than the destination, you can change where it goes later without reprinting anything.