- Extension
- .phc
- .kra
- Format
- Binary
- Category
- Embroidery
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Pfaff
- Native format of the Krita painting program, developed by the Krita Foundation.
- Description
- The PHC (Home Embroidery Format) is a proprietary file format used for storing embroidery designs. It is used by many different types of home embroidery machines, including Brother and Janome. The format stores information about the design, such as stitch type, thread color and the coordinates of the stitches. It can also contain text and images.
- Image file saved by the Krita painting program. A Krita file is a zip archive holding the full layer stack: each layer's pixel data as compressed tiles, its name, position, opacity, blending mode and visibility, plus a merged preview of the whole image.
- MIME Type
- application/octet-stream
- application/x-krita