PHONE NUMBER

QR code for a phone number

A code that opens the dialler with your number already in it. Nothing is dialled until the person presses call.

A phone QR code stores a tel: number, so a phone opens its dialler with the number filled in.

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Phone numberInclude the country code. A number without one only works for people already in your country.

Style this code

Style this code — colour, shape, branding, frame and output

Colour & contrastThe ink, the paper behind it, and the three eyes. Every choice is contrast-checked as you make it.

Foreground

18.0:1 against the background — clears the 4.5:1 a camera wants margin on.

Background

Transparency0%

Eye colours

ShapeHow the squares are drawn. The three eyes are styled apart from the data, because a scanner finds the code by them.

Modules

Every shape here is decode-tested before it is offered. Shapes that lose the symbol — diamond, star, heart — are not on this list, however good they look.

Eye frame

Eye centre

BrandingYour mark on the code. Every picture here costs scanability — the notes say how much, and the preview is the truth.

Logo image

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PNG, JPEG or WebP, up to 2MB. The modules beneath it are cleared and error correction rises to cover the hole.

Background picture

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Sits behind the modules, quiet zone included. A busy picture is the classic reason a decorated code stops scanning — check the preview with a phone before printing.

Foreground texture

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Washes over the ink itself, so it is capped well below full strength — at full strength there is no code left to scan.

Frame & captionA border and a line of text around the code — the "scan me" that tells a passer-by what it is for.

Frame style

A frame is drawn outside the quiet zone, never into it — the canvas grows instead, so the border cannot cost the code its margin.

OutputWhat comes out of the download buttons, and what the symbol actually carries.

Options

PNG size

Margin4 modulesError correctionEncoding

Automatic picks the smallest encoding that carries your text, and is right almost always. The other three exist for older scanners that expect one specific encoding; each refuses text it cannot carry rather than mangling it. Encodings we cannot convert to correctly are not offered at all.The margin never goes below 4 — ISO/IEC 18004's minimum; smaller is not a QR code. A logo raises error correction to at least Q. Encoding is chosen by the encoder per symbol and shown in the readout — a manual charset menu only makes codes bigger.

Embedded data

tel:+910000000000The exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

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Your code

v121×21 modulesmixedEC-M14/16mask 6

4/4 4 of 4 checks passHow we measure

Print-ready PDF

A press file at the finished size: 3mm bleed, crop marks and a trim box a print shop’s checks read. The code is drawn black on white whatever the design above — how a colour prints is something only a test print can show.

Format

No account · no watermark · no scan limits

Does a phone QR code call automatically?

A tel: code opens the phone app with the number entered and stops there. No platform lets a scanned code place a call on its own, which is why this is safe to put on a poster — and why the code cannot be used to make someone ring a premium line.

Write the number the way a stranger will use it

Country code, no spaces needed. A local-format number scans fine and then fails for anyone dialling from outside the country, which on a tourist-facing sign is most of the people scanning it.

Short payload, small print

A phone number is about fourteen characters, so the symbol stays at a low version and tolerates being printed small. It is one of the few types where a business card is genuinely enough room.

Phone number QR codes

Will it call the number automatically?

No. It opens the dialler with the number filled in and waits for the person to press call.

Can I add an extension?

Some diallers honour a comma for a pause followed by digits; many ignore it. Treat an extension as something to print beside the code rather than inside it.

Should I use this or a vCard?

A vCard saves a contact; this one places a call now. On a shopfront, this. On a business card, the vCard.

Does it work for a landline?

Any number a phone can dial works, landlines included. Write it with the country and area code, because a scan does not know where the person is standing.

Example Phone QR code made with this generator, decode-tested, not scored — An example Phone QR code from this generator — the same code the preview above shows, decoded before it was published.

Built to ISO/IEC 18004:2024 (the QR code symbology) · RFC 3966 (the tel: URI)

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