fancyqr

A simple package to create fancy qr-codes with the help of the qrcode-package. You may use \fancyqr just like the normal \qrcode (\fancyqr[<qr-options>]{<url>}). See the documentation. If you just want to create a simple qr-code, please refer to the minimal example. The package also ships an l3build test suite in tests/, which you can run with l3build check.

fancyqr is actively developed by Florian Sihler (contact me at: <florian.sihler@uni-ulm.de>) under the LPPL Version 1.3c (please note that this changed on 2026-02-27 from GPL v3, versions after v2.2 are licensed with LPPL 1.3c). I am very happy about every contribution (see CONTRIBUTING.md). You can find it on CTAN (https://www.ctan.org/pkg/fancyqr).

If you do want to hide a center square (e.g., because you want to embed an image), you can use \FancyQrDoNotPrintSquare{<x>}{<y>} to hide a rectangle with radius x and y set from the center (with \FancyQrDoNotPrintRadius{<factor>} you can apply a rounding to this!). If you choose this option, the default \FancyQrRoundCut that rounds cut corners can be changed with \FancyQrHardCut. The random seed used by the randomized styles can be fixed with \FancyQrSeed{<n>} (same effect as the seed option), a style asks for extra drawing passes with \FancyQrPasses{<n>} (this is how glows layers its halo below every tile, which \FancyQrGlow{<width>}{<strength>}{<falloff>} and \FancyQrGlowColor{<from>}{<to>} tune), and it declares whether its tiles understand inner corners with \FancyQrInnerRoundings or \FancyQrNoInnerRoundings (default and glows do, rounded, flat, dots, frame and the randomized styles do not). At the moment, there are eight other styles (rounded, flat, frame, blobs, glitch, dots, glows, and goo) that you can load (locally) by using \FancyQrLoad{<name>}; rounded is the default shape with hard inner corners (the pre-v2.4 look), frame outlines the shape the modules form and puts a dot in every module, glitch tears its shards apart into displaced ghosts and randomly detaches some of them, glows puts every tile into a soft halo, and goo distorts the tiles into merging, water-like blobs (it is randomized, so use the seed option for reproducible output). Every style but frame is read by a scanner as it is (frame needs finder=square for that). The default style is named default and can be 'reset' by \FancyQrLoad{default} or \FancyQrLoadDefault.

There are the following extra qr-options (you can set all of them with \fancyqrset{<keys>}):

The defaults are set like this:

\fancyqrset{image padding=0,gradient=true,gradient angle=135,r color=red!68!black!88!white!90!white,
  l color=purple!40!red!20!black!90!white}

package will automatically calculate the required \FancyQrDoNotPrintSquare (you have to ensure that the qr-code still has enough information to be readable). Therefore, the image will not scale with the qr-code.