How To Install Pngquant On Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS?
pngquant
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising utility
Install pngquant
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Debian
apt-get install pngquantClick to copy -
Ubuntu
apt-get install pngquantClick to copy -
Alpine OS
apk add pngquantClick to copy -
Arch Linux
pacman -S pngquantClick to copy -
Kali Linux
apt-get install pngquantClick to copy -
Fedora
dnf install pngquantClick to copy -
Raspbian
apt-get install pngquantClick to copy -
macOS
brew install pngquantClick to copy
pngquant
PNG (Portable Network Graphics) image optimising utilitypngquant is a command-line conversion utility to quantize and dither truecolor PNG images, especially those with a full alpha channel, down to 8-bit (or smaller) RGBA-palette PNGs. Such images are usually two to four times smaller than the full 32-bit versions, and partial transparency is preserved quite nicely. This makes pngquant especially useful both for Web sites and for PlayStation 2 development, where one of the texture formats is RGBA-palette-based (though not PNG-compressed). This is the same technique used for many of the images on the Miscellaneous Transparent PNGs page (http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/pngs-img.html), and the results are often indistinguishable from the original, truecolor PNG images. Optimizers (like pngcrush and optipng) optimize the compression, usually losslessly, while pngquant quantizes colors down to 256 (or fewer) distinct RGBA combinations, which is lossy.