I have the weirdest aesthetic preferences

I think that the white space is actually part of the protocol?

I spent 20 years in graphic design shit and wish I'd thought of something as cool as "quiet zone".

It's not just ugly, it's against the spec. The quiet zone is meant to be 4 "dots" wide on all sides for the code to be optimally readable.

You can't circumcise the QR code man!

everything is. whitespace is an important part of graphic design, especially margins. think about text that's too close to the edge is the page or screen.

It's the same with text.

the bottom one is not a qr code. The padding is part of it.

Is it a Rick Roll? It's a Rick Roll, isn't it?

checks anyway

My current bugbear with QR codes is that lots of folks have started putting their company logo in the middle of the code.

Sure it still works but it makes the error correction work harder so your users need to be nearer or have better cameras than they would otherwise. Annoying.

It's not just ugly, they don't scan properly. I've had this problem many times on codes without padding because my email client or browser was set to use a dark theme.

It often goes unnoticed because most people are using a white or clear background that gives enough contrast.

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that empty white space around it is to keep anything trying to read the QR code from getting confused by background noise.

Second one feels naked

I've never given it a single thought.

I'm also bothered by very detailed QR codes. Milk cartons in my country had a QR-code for their website. It would be a ~10 letter url, maybe with a short path. But for some reason, the QR code was extremely detailed, as if it contained several kilobytes of data. I'm not sure if there were a large number of tracking-related parameters in the url, but it was very obviously unreasonably large.

My QR Code Scanner app can recognize Qr codes in all sizes and from many angles but it won't ever scan the ones without border, like if I'm on dark mode on some websites

Its oddly offputting 😂

Weird to see a bot tell on themselves like this

I know it's a shitpost but it's not really how that meme format is supposed to work

Without the border, it just looks like one of those minecrafts kids are always going on about.

It's like putting a glass of water right on the edge of the table. Give it some space ffs.

I'm never gonna give up on quite space.... well played btw

It is not weird. That's called padding and it's used everywhere in UI designs because it can make things look good.

QR Codes won't work without the white margin.

It feels constricted, almost suffocating.

It needs a frame, yeah.

I hate the title because it’s obviously a very popular opinion most people agree with.

I can’t imagine giving a fuck…

Fully agree!

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The ones without the border can look good depending on design. but often look cheap

I don't mind in this case

The white space is too big IMO, it should be one or two squares at most. Both of the examples look really bad.

The bottom is giving “Here’s Johnny!”