X PROFILE

QR code for an X profile

Your profile URL in a code. The handle goes in without the @, and x.com is the host.

An X QR code stores the address of an X (Twitter) profile, which a phone opens in the X app.

Add the content

UsernameWithout the @. The code uses x.com, which twitter.com addresses redirect to.

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://x.com/xThe exact text the symbol carries — what any scanner will read out.

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

Your code

v225×25 modulesbyteEC-M17/28mask 2

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

x.com, and why the old host is not used

The code encodes https://x.com/<handle>. twitter.com still redirects there today, and encoding a redirect adds a hop that can be withdrawn later — on a printed code, a withdrawn redirect is a dead code.

The handle is in the ink

Change it and every printed copy stops resolving to you. It is the same trade every static profile code makes, and worth thinking about before a print run rather than after.

It links, it does not follow

Scanning opens the profile. No platform lets a scanned code follow an account on someone’s behalf, which is worth knowing before printing "scan to follow".

X QR codes

Should I use twitter.com instead?

No. It works by redirect, and a redirect is a dependency you cannot fix once the code is printed.

Can it open a specific post?

This one makes a profile link. A post is a URL — use the URL type for that.

Does scanning follow the account?

No. It opens the profile and the person decides.

What happens if I change my handle?

The code stops resolving — the handle is what it carries. Anyone scanning an old print lands on a page that no longer exists rather than on your new one.

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