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PNG

PNG is a lossless image format with transparency, well suited to screenshots, logos and graphics with text or flat colours.

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It keeps every pixel exactly, so photos make very large files. Files begin with 89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A, which spells PNG in ASCII after one non-text byte.

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See also

  • Glossary JPEG
    JPEG is a lossy image format designed for photographs that makes small files by discarding detail the eye is least likely to notice.
  • Glossary WebP
    WebP is a modern image format from Google that supports lossy and lossless compression.
  • Glossary Magic bytes
    Magic bytes, or a file signature, are the fixed bytes at the start of a file that identify its true format regardless of its name or.
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