QR code for a Pinterest profile

Your profile URL in a code, for packaging and print where the boards are the point.

A Pinterest QR code stores the address of a Pinterest profile, which a phone opens in Pinterest.

Add the content

UsernameThe profile username, as it appears after pinterest.com/ in your address bar.

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

Upload a logo

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

Background picture

Upload a picture

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

Upload a texture

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

https://pinterest.com/pinterestThe exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

Save this design — free account, the code stays editable →

Your code

v329×29 modulesbyteEC-M33/44mask 7

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

A profile, not a board

This encodes pinterest.com/<username>, which lands on everything you have. A single board is a longer URL of its own — use the URL type if one board is the destination, because a board can be deleted and a profile usually cannot.

Good on packaging, which is where Pinterest traffic starts

People photograph products rather than screens. A code on a swing tag or an insert is scanned in the room where the thing is being used, which is the moment the boards are worth looking at.

Print it larger than you think

Packaging is scanned at arm’s length under domestic lighting, not held up to a phone. The print size calculator gives the minimum for the distance rather than a guess.

Pinterest QR codes

Can I link to one board?

Use the URL type with the board address. This one makes a profile link.

Is this Pinterest’s Pincode?

No. Pincodes were Pinterest’s own format and were retired. This is a plain URL, which is why it still works.

Will it open the app?

If installed and it claims the link. Otherwise the browser.

Does it work for a business account?

Yes. Business and personal profiles use the same username in the same place, so the code is identical either way.

Want to change it after it’s printed?

Make it a dynamic code: it carries a short link you can point somewhere new at any time, and it counts every scan. A free account includes 5 dynamic codes and needs no card — and a dynamic code keeps redirecting even if you never upgrade.

Make it dynamic, free How dynamic codes work