Flour Power

a blog by António Farinha


Write Your Name Using Barcode

Google logo Barcode

Just like they did on Samuel Morse's birthday and Louis Braille's birthday, today, on the 57th birthday of the Barcode, Google presented its logo as vertical black bars on a white background.

Now if, for some bizarre reason, you want to generate a similar Barcode for your name, just head over to morovia.com, and select "Code 128" as the Barcode Format. This is how my name looks like:

Antonio Farinha - Barcode

And what good would an encoder be without a decoder? Use ZXing.org to uncover the hidden messages in barcodes.

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