The QR screen for a profile, group or channel is also a small design tool. There are colour styles, a pattern, and a save button — what comes out is an image you own and can put anywhere.
This page is about that image: making one that suits where it is going, and making sure it still works when the styling is against it.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Produce a styled QR image for a profile or a channel.
- check_circle Choose a style that still scans in the real world.
- check_circle Put it somewhere useful rather than only in a chat.
- check_circle Give people a way in when the code fails.
The styles change the colours and the surround; the code inside them stays the same address.
qr_code_2 An image you can take away
The QR screen produces a picture with the code, your name or handle, and whatever colour treatment you chose. Save it once and it is a file: a slide, a footer, a printed card, a profile picture on another platform.
That is the point worth taking from this. Most people generate the code, show it across a table, and never save it. Saved, it is the thing you paste into the corner of a presentation or the back of a card, where it does the work while you are not there.
The styling is genuinely just styling. It changes nothing about what the code contains, so a code that fails is failing for a physical reason — too small, too low in contrast, badly lit — not because of the theme you picked.
Four places to put it
Each wants a different size and a different amount of colour.
smartphone Held up in person
present_to_all In a presentation
print On something physical
rule Always print the address too
Save the image, size it generously, and always put the address beside it in words.
settings Making one
- Open the profile, group or channel Your own is in the profile settings.
- Tap the QR icon beside the handle Which address you start from is what gets encoded.
- Choose a style Bold and high-contrast for anything leaving a screen.
- Save the image Not just share it; you want the file.
- Place it large, with clear space Wherever it is going.
- Write the address beside it Every time.
This page is the image. The curriculum step is what it points at: claiming a handle, what it commits you to, the difference between a permanent address and a revocable invite, and what happens to every printed reference when a name changes.
At a glance
- 1Styled QR codes
Choose a style for your profile or channel code.
- 2Scans in real life
Keep good contrast and enough size when printed.
- 3Add the address
Print the link in text too.
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