---
title: "Add a text frame | Unitag Documentation"
description: "Add a frame with text under your QR code — Scan me, Happy Holidays — to tell people what it does before they point a camera at it."
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---

# Add a text frame

Text under a QR code tells people what it is for before they point a camera at it — Scan me, Happy Holidays, a price. Unitag adds that text through a frame, and several frame styles are available.

To add a frame to a QR code:

- Open the QR code and click Export as….
- Switch Add frame on. The frame options appear underneath it.
- Pick a **Style**. Four are available, shown below.
- Type your caption in **Text (top)**, **Text (bottom)**, or both.
- Set the frame **Colour**, by swatch or by hex value.
- Click Export to download the framed QR code.

![The Export as dialog with Add frame switched on, showing the style, top and bottom text and colour fields, next to a preview of the framed code](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/qrcodes/en/qr-codes-export-frame.webp)

The four styles, left to right: a thin outline with the text inside it, a solid banner beneath the code, an inline block with the text beside the code, and a rounded frame with a phone drawn next to it.

![A QR code in a thin square frame, SCAN ME printed inside it beneath the code](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/qrcodes/common/qr-codes-export-frame-simple.webp)

![A QR code above a solid black banner reading SCAN ME](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/qrcodes/common/qr-codes-export-frame-banner.webp)

![A black block with SCAN ME on the left and the QR code on the right](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/qrcodes/common/qr-codes-export-frame-inline.webp)

![A rounded frame holding the QR code, the words SCAN ME, and a drawing of a phone](https://www.unitag.io/documentation/images/qrcodes/common/qr-codes-export-frame-phone-scan.webp)

> Test the framed file before printing
>
> A frame changes the file you hand to a printer, so scan the exported image once before it goes anywhere - at the size you intend to print it. The export dialog asks you to confirm this for the same reason.

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