- Extension
- .icns
- .vips
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Developer
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Apple
- VIPS (Visual Information Processing System)
- 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.
- VIPS is a libvips file format mainly used for calculations, but it can also store images. The main advantage is that it has no size limit; it's fast and straightforward. Nonetheless, most applications can't view it, so converting it to a more popular format is the only way to work around it.
- MIME Type
- image/x-icns
- image/vnd.vips
