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| Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace the GIF format, as an image-file format not requiring a patent license. It is pronounced /ˈpɪŋ/ ping[1] or spelled out as P-N-G. The PNG initialism is optionally recursive, unofficially standing for “PNG's Not GIF”.
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| PNG supports palette-based (palettes of 24-bit RGB colors), greyscale or RGB images. PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not professional graphics, and so does not support other color spaces (such as CMYK).
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| PNGs are ideal for saving icons, where information density is high and fidelity to the original image is paramount. For larger images JPGs are greatly preferred for size reasons.
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