Contact card QR code
Scanning this offers to save you as a contact, with whichever fields you fill in. Good on a business card, a name badge, or an email signature.
Leave anything blank and it is left out of the card entirely, rather than saved as an empty field.
Everything below is optional. Anything left blank is left out of the card, and each field you add makes the code a little denser.
Your code appears here as you type.
Questions
- Do the codes expire?
- No. The code contains your information directly — there is no short link in the middle that could stop working, no account behind it, and nothing to renew. A code made here works in ten years exactly as it does today, because nothing has to still be running for it to.
- Is anything I type sent anywhere?
- No. The code is drawn in your browser as you type. Nothing is uploaded, there is no server here that could receive it, and the picture you download is generated on your own device. You can check with your browser's network tab: no request carries what you entered.
- Which fields should I fill in?
- A name and one way to reach you is enough. Every extra field makes the code denser and harder to scan from a distance, so it is worth leaving out what you do not need.
- My name has a comma or an apostrophe in it
- That is handled. Commas and semicolons separate the parts of a name in this format, so a surname like "Smith, Jr" has to be escaped or it arrives as two separate name parts. The tests decode a finished card to check it comes back whole.
- Why is my code so dense?
- Contact cards carry more data than a link, so they produce a bigger grid. If it is hard to scan, remove a field or two, or print it larger.