QRTOOL-ENCODE(1) General Commands Manual QRTOOL-ENCODE(1) (NAME) qrtool-encode - QR (SYNOPSIS) qrtool encode [OPTION]... [STRING] (DESCRIPTION) QR PNG SVG . . , . QR . L (40-L). . (40-L) +--------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------+ | | | | | | | | +--------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------+ | (Numeric) | 7,089 | 0-9 | +--------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------+ |- | 4,296 | 0-9 A-Z ( | |(Alphanumeric) | | | | | | ) | | | | | | | | ( $ | | | | % * + - . | | | | / :) | +--------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------+ | (Byte) | 2,953 | | | | | | | | | | +--------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------+ | (Kanji) | 1,817 | | | | | JIS X | | | | 0208 | +--------------------------+--------------------------+-----------------------------+ QR --foreground / --background . CSS . . +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | | | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | | brown, lightslategray | | | | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | | #111, #eee8, #a52a2a, | | | #7788997f | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | RGB | rgb(165 42 42), rgb(119 | | | 136 153 / 49.8%) | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | HSL | hsl(248 39% 39.2%), hsl(0 | | | 0% 66.3% / 49.8%) | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | HWB | hwb(50.6 0% 0%), hwb(0 | | | 66.3% 33.7% / 49.8%) | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Oklab | oklab(50.4% -0.0906 | | | 0.0069), oklab(61.9% | | | -0.0120 -0.0302 / 0.5) | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Oklch | oklch(59.41% 0.16 301.29), | | | oklch(61.9% 0.032 248.35 / | | | 49.8%) | +-------------------------------+----------------------------+ QR Micro QR rMQR . . (POSITIONAL ARGUMENTS) STRING . STRING . STRING UTF-8 . UTF-8 --read-from . --read-from . (OPTIONS) -o, --output FILE . -r, --read-from FILE . STRING . -s, --size NUMBER () . PNG SVG EPS PIC . -l, --error-correction-level LEVEL . : l L. (codewords). m M. . . q Q. . h H. . --level LEVEL -l --error-correction-level. -v, --symbol-version NUMBER [NUMBER] . . QR NUMBER 1 40 . Micro QR NUMBER 1 4 . rMQR NUMBER 7 9 11 13 15 17 . NUMBER 27 43 59 77 99 139 . 27 11 13 . QR rMQR NUMBER . --symversion NUMBER [NUMBER] -v --symbol-version. -m, --margin NUMBER . QR . -t, --type FORMAT . : png Portable Network Graphics. 32-bit RGBA PNG . . svg (Scalable Vector Graphics). eps Encapsulated PostScript. pic PIC. ansi ANSI. output-as-ansi . ansi256 ANSI. output-as-ansi . ansi-true-color ANSI. output-as-ansi . ascii ASCII. ascii-invert ASCII. ascii . ASCIIi . unicode UTF-8. terminal UTF8 . unicode-invert UTF-8. unicode . UTF8i . --optimize-png [LEVEL] PNG. . LEVEL . optimize-output-png . : 0 . . 1 . 2 . . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . . max . --zopfli [ITERATION] Zopfli PNG. ITERATION . ITERATION . --optimize-png . optimize-output-png . --mode MODE . . --symbol-version . : numeric . alphanumeric - . byte . kanji Shift JIS. --variant TYPE QR. : normal QR . . micro Micro QR. rmqr rMQR. --foreground COLOR . COLOR CSS . PNG SVG ANSI . . . --background COLOR . COLOR CSS . PNG SVG ANSI . . . --verbose () . stderr . -h, --help . (-h) (--help) . -V, --version . (EXIT STATUS) 0 . 1 . 2 . . (NOTES) : (EXAMPLES) QR: $ qrtool encode "QR code" > output.png : $ qrtool encode -o output.png -r go.mod QR SVG: $ qrtool encode -t svg "QR code" > output.svg Micro QR: $ qrtool encode --variant micro "QR code" > output.png QR : $ qrtool encode -o output.png --foreground brown --background lightslategray "QR code" (REPORTING BUGS) : (COPYRIGHT) (C) 2022 Shun Sakai 1. Apache License 2.0 MIT . 2. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License . : . . (SEE ALSO) oxipng(1), qrencode(1), qrtool(1), qrtool-completion(1), qrtool-decode(1) qrtool 0.13.2 2025-11-08 QRTOOL-ENCODE(1)