diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index e075f7b..f61be27 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -108,4 +108,40 @@ fn main() {
 
 Generates this SVG:
 
-[![Output](src/test_annex_i_micro_qr_as_svg.svg)](src/test_annex_i_micro_qr_as_svg.svg)
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+[![Output](src/test_annex_i_micro_qr_as_svg.svg)](src/test_annex_i_micro_qr_as_svg.svg)
+
+## Unicode string generation
+
+```rust
+use qrcode::QrCode;
+use qrcode::render::unicode;
+
+fn main() {
+    let code = QrCode::new("mow mow").unwrap();
+    let image = code.render::<unicode::Dense1x2>()
+        .dark_color(unicode::Dense1x2::Light)
+        .light_color(unicode::Dense1x2::Dark)
+        .build();
+    println!("{}", image);
+}
+```
+
+Generates this output:
+
+```text
+█████████████████████████████
+█████████████████████████████
+████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █ ▀▀▀▄█ ▄▄▄▄▄ ████
+████ █   █ █▀ ▀ ▀█ █   █ ████
+████ █▄▄▄█ ██▄  ▀█ █▄▄▄█ ████
+████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█ ▀▄▀ █▄▄▄▄▄▄▄████
+████▄▀ ▄▀ ▄ █▄█  ▀ ▀█ █▄ ████
+████▄██▄▄▀▄▄▀█▄ ██▀▀█▀▄▄▄████
+█████▄▄▄█▄▄█  ▀▀▄█▀▀▀▄█▄▄████
+████ ▄▄▄▄▄ █   ▄▄██▄ ▄ ▀▀████
+████ █   █ █▀▄▄▀▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ▄████
+████ █▄▄▄█ █▄  █▄▀▄▀██▄█▀████
+████▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄████▄█▄██▄██████
+█████████████████████████████
+▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
+```
diff --git a/src/render/mod.rs b/src/render/mod.rs
index ab5e71c..32fff6e 100644
--- a/src/render/mod.rs
+++ b/src/render/mod.rs
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ use std::cmp::max;
 pub mod image;
 pub mod string;
 pub mod svg;
+pub mod unicode;
 
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 //{{{ Pixel trait
diff --git a/src/render/unicode.rs b/src/render/unicode.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..066a75d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/render/unicode.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+//! UTF-8 rendering, with 2 pixels per symbol.
+
+use crate::render::{Canvas as RenderCanvas, Pixel, Color};
+
+const CODEPAGE: [&str; 4] = [" ","\u{2584}","\u{2580}","\u{2588}"];
+
+#[derive(Copy, Clone, PartialEq)]
+pub enum Dense1x2 {
+    Dark, Light
+}
+
+impl Pixel for Dense1x2 {
+    type Image = String;
+    type Canvas = Canvas1x2;
+    fn default_color(color: Color) -> Dense1x2 { color.select(Dense1x2::Dark, Dense1x2::Light) }
+    fn default_unit_size() -> (u32, u32) { (1, 1) }
+}
+
+impl Dense1x2 {
+    fn value(&self) -> u8 {
+        match self {
+            Dense1x2::Dark => {1}
+            Dense1x2::Light => {0}
+        }
+    }
+    fn parse_2_bits(sym: &u8) -> &'static str {
+        CODEPAGE[*sym as usize]
+    }
+}
+
+pub struct Canvas1x2 {
+    canvas: Vec<u8>,
+    width: u32,
+    dark_pixel: u8
+}
+
+impl RenderCanvas for Canvas1x2 {
+
+    type Pixel = Dense1x2;
+    type Image = String;
+
+    
+    fn new(width: u32, height: u32, dark_pixel: Dense1x2, light_pixel: Dense1x2) -> Self { 
+        let a = vec![light_pixel.value(); (width * height) as usize];
+        Canvas1x2 {
+            width: width,
+            canvas: a,
+            dark_pixel: dark_pixel.value()
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn draw_dark_pixel(&mut self, x: u32, y: u32) { 
+        self.canvas[(x + y * self.width) as usize] = self.dark_pixel;
+    }
+
+    fn into_image(self) -> String { 
+        self.canvas
+            // Chopping array into 1-line sized fragments
+            .chunks_exact(self.width as usize)
+            .collect::<Vec<&[u8]>>()
+            // And then glueing every 2 lines.
+            .chunks(2)
+            .map(|rows|
+                {
+                    // Then zipping those 2 lines together into a single 2-bit number list.
+                    if rows.len() == 2 {
+                        rows[0].iter().zip(rows[1]).map(|(top,bot)| (top * 2 + bot)).collect::<Vec<u8>>()
+                    } else {
+                        rows[0].iter().map(|top| (top * 2)).collect::<Vec<u8>>()
+                    }
+                }
+                .iter()
+                // Mapping those 2-bit numbers to corresponding pixels.
+                .map(Dense1x2::parse_2_bits)
+                .collect::<Vec<&str>>()
+                .concat()
+            )
+            .collect::<Vec<String>>()
+            .join("\n")
+    }
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn test_render_to_utf8_string() {
+    use crate::render::Renderer;
+    let colors = &[Color::Dark, Color::Light, Color::Light, Color::Dark];
+    let image: String = Renderer::<Dense1x2>::new(colors, 2, 1).build();
+    
+    assert_eq!(&image, " ▄  \n  ▀ ");
+
+    let image2 = Renderer::<Dense1x2>::new(colors, 2, 1).module_dimensions(2, 2).build();
+
+    assert_eq!(&image2, "        \n  ██    \n    ██  \n        ");
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn integration_render_utf8_1x2() {
+    use crate::{QrCode, Version, EcLevel};
+    use crate::render::unicode::Dense1x2;
+
+    let code = QrCode::with_version(b"09876542", Version::Micro(2), EcLevel::L).unwrap();
+    let image = code.render::<Dense1x2>()
+        .module_dimensions(1, 1)
+        .build();
+    assert_eq!(image,
+        "                 \n".to_owned() +
+        "  █▀▀▀▀▀█ ▀ █ ▀  \n" +
+        "  █ ███ █  ▀ █   \n" +
+        "  █ ▀▀▀ █  ▀█ █  \n" +
+        "  ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ ▄▀▀ █  \n" +
+        "  ▀█ ▀▀▀▀▀██▀▀▄  \n" +
+        "  ▀███▄ ▀▀ █ ██  \n" +
+        "  ▀▀▀ ▀ ▀▀ ▀  ▀  \n" +
+        "                 ")
+
+}
+
+#[test]
+fn integration_render_utf8_1x2_inverted() {
+    use crate::{QrCode, Version, EcLevel};
+    use crate::render::unicode::Dense1x2;
+
+    let code = QrCode::with_version(b"12345678", Version::Micro(2), EcLevel::L).unwrap();
+    let image = code.render::<Dense1x2>()
+        .dark_color(Dense1x2::Light)
+        .light_color(Dense1x2::Dark)
+        .module_dimensions(1, 1)
+        .build();
+    assert_eq!(image,
+        "█████████████████\n\
+         ██ ▄▄▄▄▄ █▄▀▄█▄██\n\
+         ██ █   █ █   █ ██\n\
+         ██ █▄▄▄█ █▄▄██▀██\n\
+         ██▄▄▄▄▄▄▄█▄▄▄▀ ██\n\
+         ██▄ ▀ ▀ ▀▄▄  ████\n\
+         ██▄▄▀▄█ ▀▀▀ ▀▄▄██\n\
+         ██▄▄▄█▄▄█▄██▄█▄██\n\
+         ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀");
+
+}
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