The QR studio

Updated 2026-09-08

The same QR studio appears in three places: the QR tab of the link editor, the QR codes page, and Domain settings where it sets the domain default. The controls are identical everywhere.

What you can change

  • Theme — eight preset palettes: classic, midnight, coral, forest, bubble, ocean, berry and amber. Picking a theme resets the individual colours to that theme's values.
  • Colours — foreground, background and eye colour, set individually once you want to go past a preset.
  • Corner style — square, rounded or dot finder patterns.
  • Module style — square or dot.
  • Corner radius — a slider from 0 to 50.
  • Error correction — L, M, Q or H.
  • Caption — a short line of text under the code, such as "Scan for the menu".
  • Centre logo — an image under 400 KB, which raises error correction to H automatically.

The preview redraws on every change, so you can see immediately when a colour combination has stopped being scannable.

Where a style is stored

A style set in the link editor is saved with that link and used every time you download its code. A style set in Domain settings becomes the default for new codes on that domain. A folder can carry a QR style as a default too. The precedence runs link, then folder, then domain.

Downloads

Four buttons: PNG at 512, PNG at 2048, SVG and PDF. For anything printed, use SVG or PDF — they scale without softening the module edges, which is what makes a marginal code fail at the printer.

Classic codes are not saved automatically

Generating a code in the studio does not create a stored object. Download it, or publish it as a permanent image URL. The QR codes page lists the codes you have published, not every code ever previewed.

Scans are tracked

A code generated here encodes the short URL with ?qr=1, so scans are recorded as scans and reported separately from ordinary clicks. Generate a code elsewhere from the same short URL and its scans are indistinguishable from clicks — which is a good reason to generate here.

AI artwork

The AI artwork option blends generated artwork with a high-error-correction code and verifies the result still scans before showing it. It starts on the Starter plan.

Find this in your dashboard

  1. Sign in and select the workspace and domain you want to manage.
  2. Open QR code. Review the article’s steps and your plan’s available controls.
  3. Save your changes, reopen the record and verify the saved result. For routing changes, check the short link with a test visit.
ShortFreeURL QR code in a demonstration workspace
QR code · Demo workspace. Click to enlarge.

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