What can I encode?
Plain URLs, Wi-Fi credentials, contact cards (vCard), email, SMS, phone numbers and free-form text. Switch payload types in the studio's left panel — each one renders the right input fields for you.
Vol. 03 — Help
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¶ Help
Short notes on what amino.codes does, how to style a plate that still scans, and how to get clean files out the door.
Plain URLs, Wi-Fi credentials, contact cards (vCard), email, SMS, phone numbers and free-form text. Switch payload types in the studio's left panel — each one renders the right input fields for you.
Hit Studio in the top navigation, or jump straight in from the homepage. No account needed to play — sign in only when you want to save plates to your library.
Anything you save lands in your Library, accessible from the top nav once signed in. From there you can re-open a plate in the studio, duplicate it or export again.
Quite a lot. Pick dot shapes, corner-eye shapes, solid or gradient fills, backgrounds and rotation. The preview re-renders live so you can iterate fast.
Heavy gradients, low-contrast fills and very large logos can hurt scan reliability. Keep meaningful contrast between dots and background, and always test with a real phone before shipping.
Yes — drop an image into the style panel. Keep it small (under ~20% of the code area) and centered so the error correction can absorb it.
PNG for web, slides and quick sharing. SVG for print, signage, packaging and anywhere you need infinite scaling without softness.
PNG exports render at a high resolution suitable for screens and modest print. For large-format print, prefer SVG.
Yes. Codes you generate are yours — use them in products, marketing, packaging and client work without attribution.
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