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