[chrislomax]

Would a better idea not to have a font that was made for the purpose of scanning?

That way, if people don't have smartphones then they know the url. Those who do have smartphones know what the url points to in case there is something dodgy about the url.

I hate to say it but something like Courier, on a white background and we improve the OCR techniques in the phones?

[ragmondo]

You mean like "OCR Font?" - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCR-A_font

[chrislomax]

Perfect, I wasn't even aware there was a font for this purpose!

I don't see the point in QR codes, I have never seen an every day use for them and it makes me slightly angry that they have been adopted so heavily.

I do take into account people have found a use for them in niche situations. It just seems these ugly black barcodes could have been avoided by legible OCR fonts with a decent OCR scanner built into the phone. Everyone's happy!

[rhizome]

Hardware-wise, OCR is not as simple to process as QR.