Google barcode day: make one for your site/blog
7th October 2009
Today Google celebrates the invention of the barcode.
To help in this celebration, you can make a barcode with your site’s address (there is at least one more at barcodesinc, but at the moment of writing it is painfully slow).
I find these parameters nearly optimal:
- Type: Code 128-B
- Styles: Draw value text
- Size: 234×60 (half-banner size)
- Xres: 1
- Text font: 5
- Value: bogdan.org.ua
If you wish, you can also exactly replicate today’s Google logo – which says “Google”, as you could have guessed.
You can place this barcode on your “souvenirs” – pens, cups, t-shirts. Many phones now have barcode scanners (e.g. Nokia E71), so put this code onto your namecard.
Read on to learn about matrix barcodes.
You may also investigate further into matrix/2D codes, which may contain much more information. To the left is the QR code of my blog’s address – try and scan it with your cameraphone! Or make one for yourself.
There are many types of matrix/2D barcodes. QR code (above), datamatrix (left picture) and Semacode (right picture) were all successfully recognized by my phone.
December 15th, 2011 at 12:06
we have developed bar code generator for iPhone and Android. it is able to generate 2D barcodes on iPhone and Android apps.
refer to:
Android barcode generator
iPhone barcode generator