What is the difference between .icns and .png?
- Extension
- .icns
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple
- PNG Development Group
- Description
- It is an icon image file used to show application icons in the macOS Finder and macOS dock. It contains one or several .PNG images and it supports 1bit and 8-bit alpha channels.
- A PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- image/x-icns
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .icns on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia