Customizing your QR code
Finding Your Way Around the Panel
The generator's options are grouped into four sections you can open and close. If you used the site before and something looks missing, this page says where it went.
The short version
- The type buttons and the fields for that type are always visible. Nothing folds them away.
- Everything else lives in Colours, Shape & style, Logo and Advanced.
- Colours is open to begin with; the rest start closed and open when you select their heading.
- Whatever you leave open is remembered on that device, so the panel comes back the way you had it.
- Every control has a small ? beside it that explains what it changes.
What is in each section
| Section | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Colours | Quick color templates, Dot color, Background, and the two eye colors. More on colors. |
| Shape & style | Dot style, Corner style, Eye center shape, the overall square-or-circle Shape, and Background roundness. More on shapes. |
| Logo | Turning a logo on, choosing it, and its size and clear space. More on logos. |
| Advanced | Minimum size, frames and frame text, and the download size. More on minimum size. |
Closed sections still say what they hold, in grey beside the heading, so you can find something without opening each one in turn.
Why the options are grouped at all
They were not, until now. Every option sat in one list, and that list had grown to roughly twice the height of a laptop screen — which made it hard to find anything and easy to miss half the features entirely.
Grouping them does not remove or gate anything. Every control that was there before is still there, in the section its name suggests, and nothing has moved behind a paywall.
One control did move for a reason worth knowing: Eye center shape used to sit between the two eye color controls, where it looked like a color setting. It is a shape, and it is now with the other shapes.
The ? beside each control
Select the small ? next to any label and a short explanation appears. It says what the control changes and the one thing worth knowing about it — that a logo is deliberate damage to the pattern, that minimum size is a floor rather than a fixed size, that background roundness never touches the code itself.
The phone apps show the same explanations behind the same ?, so a control means the same thing wherever you meet it. Anything that needs more than a sentence is a page in this help section, linked from the relevant page here.
Frequently asked questions
A control I used to use has disappeared.
It is in one of the four sections — check the table above for which. Nothing was removed. If the section is closed, its heading still names what is inside.
Can I have everything open at once?
Yes. Open all four and they stay open, on that device, until you close them again. The panel is long that way, which is why it does not start like that.
Does the site remember this across my devices?
No. It is stored in your browser, so your laptop and your phone can be set up differently — which is usually what you want, since a phone has far less room. Signing in does not change it either way; it is not account data.
What if my browser blocks site data?
The sections still open and close normally; the panel simply starts from its defaults each visit.