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jzwinck on Nov 9, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wounded QR Codes

What purpose do inverted colors serve? Is there some use of QR codes that is poorly served by the standard scheme but better served by an inverted one?

_kb on Nov 9, 2013 [–]

Aesthetics of the rest of the image / object it is on. Inverting allows you to have a black 'quiet area' rather than a lighter one.

That being said, if you are putting QR codes on anything aesthetics are probably not something that even registers with you.

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