royalties

A lossless compression format created to avoid paying GIF royalty fees. As a web-oriented image format, it found great popularity.

A lossy compression image format. It boasts a high compression ratio, as well as the ability to compress photos beautifully. However, if you feed it pixel art...

compression artifact wand

A format that flourished back when internet connections were weaker. It allows the use of up to 256 colors, as well as animation. However, when royalty fees started being charged for the format's use, the number of users decreased dramatically.

An image format for Windows. It's not suited for the web, but chiefly sees use in Windows instead. It fundamentally does not compress images, so it has the reputation of generating large files.

Displays vector images by using XML as a base. It remains immaculate regardless of how much you zoom in. It also has the ability to display animations by working alongside Javascsript.