Contact card generator

How to make a Contact card

Three steps:

1. Open the generator and pick Contact card.
2. Fill in the fields — the preview updates as you type.
3. Download PNG for screens, or SVG for anything going to print.

Example

Scanners recognise this content by its prefix, so the text has to be formatted exactly. The generator handles the escaping — a Wi-Fi password containing a semicolon, for instance, breaks a hand-written payload.

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Okafor;Ada;;;
FN:Ada Okafor
ORG:Northwind
TEL;TYPE=CELL:+15551234567
EMAIL;TYPE=INTERNET:ada@example.com
END:VCARD

Technical details

Payload prefix

BEGIN:VCARD

Standard

vCard 3.0

Escaped characters

\; \, \n

Practical tips

• Test the printed code with a phone before you order a thousand of them. Print, lighting and surface all affect scanning.
• Leave the quiet zone alone. Cropping the blank border is the most common reason a code stops scanning.
• Dark code on a light background. Inverted codes work on some scanners and fail on many.

Guides for each code type