PNG

Portable Network Graphics is a raster-graphics file format that supports lossless data compression. PNG was developed as an improved, non-patented replacement for Graphics Interchange Format. PNG supports palette-based images,... Wikipedia

  • Type code:  PNGf, PNG (including a single trailing space)
  • Uniform Type Identifier (UTI):  public.png
  • UTI conformation:  public.image
  • Developed by:  PNG Development Group (donated to W3C)
  • Initial release:  October 1, 1996
  • Latest release:  3.0, (June 24, 2025)
  • Type of format:  Lossless bitmap image format
  • Extended to:  APNG, JNG, and MNG
  • Standard:  ISO/IEC 15948, IETF RFC 2083
  • Data source:  DuckDuckGo
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