Custom QR Design

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Create branded QR codes with custom logos, colours, and dot styles.

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How It Works

1

Upload / Input

Select your files or paste your content to get started.

2

Process

The work happens in this browser tab. Your file never leaves your device, so nothing is queued, stored or transmitted.

3

Download / Result

Get your results instantly. Download files or copy output in one click.

Features

Custom QR colour and background colour
Upload centre logo with size control
Square or rounded dot styles
Real-time live preview
High error correction for logo overlay
Download as PNG or SVG

How to use Custom QR Design

  1. Enter your content

    Add the URL or text the code should carry.

  2. Style it

    Set foreground and background colours, module shape, and add a logo if you have one.

  3. Keep contrast high

    Dark code on a light background. This constrains your palette more than people expect.

  4. Test on multiple devices

    Styled codes are meaningfully more fragile than plain ones. Test before printing.

When to use Custom QR Design

  • Matching a QR code to brand colours on printed marketing material
  • Adding a logo to a code on a business card or packaging
  • Styling a code to fit a poster design
  • Producing a code that looks deliberate rather than tacked on

FAQ

Yes, as long as there is sufficient contrast between the QR colour and background. Dark QR on light background works best.
You can set the logo to cover up to 40% of the QR code. The tool uses high error correction to keep the code scannable even with a large logo.
Yes. The generated QR codes are free to use commercially. Just make sure you have rights to any logos you upload.
Within limits. You need strong contrast and a dark code on a light background. A dark brand colour on white generally works; a pale colour, or light-on-dark, generally does not.
Up to roughly 30% of the code area if you raise error correction to a high level. Beyond that, scanning reliability drops sharply, especially on older devices.
Scanner tolerance varies significantly between devices and camera stacks. A code that is marginal will work on a recent phone and fail on an older one. Test broadly before printing.
Yes, inherently — every stylistic change costs a little robustness. The question is whether you have spent that budget wisely, which is why testing on multiple devices matters.

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About Custom QR Design

Styling a QR code is a trade between appearance and reliability, and the trade is real. Every design choice — lower contrast, rounded modules, a logo, a gradient — makes the code marginally harder for a scanner to read. A little styling is safe; a lot is how you end up with an unscannable code on five thousand printed flyers.

The rules that cannot be bent: dark on light rather than light on dark, strong contrast between the two, and an intact quiet zone around the edge. Within those constraints you have reasonable freedom over colour and module shape.

A logo works because error correction allows part of the code to be unreadable. Keep it centred, under about 30% of the area, and raise the error correction level to compensate. Then test — not once, but on an old Android phone as well as a new iPhone, because older camera stacks are far less tolerant.

Tips and limits

  • Dark on light, always. Inverted codes fail on many scanners.
  • Logo under 30% of the area, centred, with error correction raised.
  • Test on an older Android phone, not just a recent iPhone — tolerance varies a lot.
  • Gradients reduce contrast unpredictably across the code. Use with care.
  • Print a test at final size and scan it before committing to a print run.