QR Code Generator
Make a QR code for a link, Wi-Fi network or contact card.
What should it point at?
Appearance
Keep a good contrast between the two colours and leave the border at four modules, the width the QR standard specifies — a scanner needs the quiet zone to find the code at all.
What is actually encoded
https://office-utilities.orgAbout QR Code Generator
Generate a QR code for a URL, plain text, a Wi-Fi network, an email or a contact card, and download it as a PNG or a scalable SVG. It is encoded by your own browser, so the code is not registered anywhere, cannot be tracked, and will never expire.
A QR code is a link you can point a camera at, and generating one should be a five-second job. It usually is not: the free generator wants an account, or hands back a code that runs through its own redirect so it can count the scans and switch the code off when the trial ends.
These codes contain your destination and nothing else. Nothing is registered, nothing counts the scans, and there is nothing in the middle that can stop working.
- Processed on your deviceEverything you open or type here is handled by this page and never uploaded anywhere.
- No queue, no limitsNothing waits on a server, so the only limit is your own hardware.
- No account neededNo sign-up and no email address required.
How QR Code Generator works in your browser
Encoding runs locally and produces both a PNG at whatever size you ask for and an SVG, which is vector and therefore sharp at any size — the one to use for anything going to print. Colours, the size and the quiet border are all adjustable, and the exact payload being encoded is shown on the page, because a code you cannot read is a thing you are trusting blindly.
Error correction adds redundancy: at the highest level roughly thirty per cent of the pattern can be damaged, obscured or covered by a logo and the code still reads. It costs pattern density, so use Low for a clean screen and High for a sticker, a poster, or anything that will be handled.
Beyond a plain link, the standard payload formats are here: a Wi-Fi network a phone can join by pointing at the code, a mailto with the subject and body prefilled, a dialling or text-message link, and a vCard contact. The Wi-Fi one deserves a warning that most generators leave out — the password is written into the code in the clear, because that is how the format works, so anyone who can photograph the code can read it.
The trade for having no redirect in the middle is that a printed code cannot be repointed later. If the destination might move, encode a URL you control and redirect from there — the same result, without handing the code itself to a third party.
When to use it
Putting a menu, a price list or a booking page on a printed card or a table tent. Letting guests onto the Wi-Fi without reading a twenty-character password aloud. Adding contact details to a business card, a conference badge or a slide. Linking a physical notice — a poster, a parcel, a piece of equipment — to a page about it.
Frequently asked questions
Will this QR code stop working later?
No. Many free generators produce a code pointing at their own redirect, so it dies when the account lapses and counts every scan in the meantime. The codes here encode your destination directly — there is nothing in the middle to fail or to watch.
What is error correction, and which level should I use?
Redundancy that lets a damaged or partly obscured code still scan. Low keeps the pattern simplest; High survives roughly thirty per cent damage and is what to use for anything printed, put on a sticker or given a logo in the middle.
PNG or SVG?
SVG for anything going to print or into a design — it is vector, so it stays sharp at any size. PNG for a screen, a slide or a system that will not accept SVG.