Customize your QR code's colors
Match the QR foreground and background to your event palette — no separate design tool needed.
~3 min read
Every PixVenu gallery's QR code lets you set its own foreground and background colors. By default the QR uses a dark foreground on a white background — the safest combination for scanner-friendliness — but you can match your event palette directly from the host dashboard.
Open the gallery's detail page and find the "QR code color" editor in the design section. You'll see two color pickers: foreground (the data modules — the dark squares) and background (the empty space behind them). Pick any hex pair that works for your stationery. Both PNG and SVG downloads — including the print sign, the take-home card layout, and the per-album QR dialogs — pick up the new colors immediately. There's no separate "save and re-download" round-trip; the change flows to every QR surface in one shot.
A few practical notes for color choice:
- Keep contrast high. Scanners need a clear light/dark distinction to read the code. Black-on-white scans fastest; navy-on-cream still reads fine; pastel-on-pastel will fail on cheaper venue lighting. Your phone is a good sanity-check device — if you can't scan it from across the room, your guests can't either.
- Inverted (light-on-dark) works as long as the contrast holds. Cream-on-charcoal looks great on a moody wedding sign and scans cleanly.
- Don't replace the QR with a logo. PixVenu doesn't overlay logos into the QR matrix because most QR readers can't tolerate the lost data area. If you want a logo near your QR code, place it next to or above the QR, not inside.
To reset to defaults, leave either picker empty (or use the clear affordance next to it). The QR snaps back to dark-on-white and the new defaults flow to every download surface automatically.
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