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Best Image formats
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| There is no best image format. | |
| JPEG | |
| * Can display about 16.8 million colors | |
| * Lossy Compression | |
| * Cannot be animated | |
| * Great for still images and photographs | |
| GIF | |
| * Can display 256 colors | |
| * Lossless Compression | |
| * Supports transparency | |
| * Great for simple animations | |
| * Good for graphics with flat colors and graphics without gradients | |
| PNG | |
| * PNG-8:Can display 256 colors | |
| * PNG-24:Can display millions of colors | |
| * Lossless Compression | |
| * Better transparency than GIF | |
| * Cannot be animated | |
| * Good for icons;Can be used when an SVG format is not available | |
| SVG | |
| * Very scalable and great for responsive design | |
| * Can be modified using CSS and JavaScript | |
| * Smaller file size; depends on how complex the image is | |
| * Can be animated | |
| * Great for logos, icons, maps, flags, charts etc. | |
| * Not so good for photographs |
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