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kornelski/pngquant

Lossy PNG compressor — pngquant command based on libimagequant library observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/kornelski/pngquant · homepage · C · NOASSERTION (other) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

72/100

  • Activity 88
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases no_license

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 6194
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 74
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

5742 stars · 505 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

pngquant is a command-line lossy PNG compressor that converts images to efficient 8-bit palette PNGs with alpha support, often reducing file sizes by 60-80%. It is built on the libimagequant library (now written in Rust) and offers configurable quality levels, adaptive dithering, and fast batch processing.

Use cases

  • compress png images to smaller file sizes
  • convert 24-bit pngs to 8-bit palette pngs with alpha
  • batch optimize png files for the web
  • reduce png file size from the command line
  • shrink png images in a build pipeline or shell script
  • quantize image colors while preserving transparency

When to choose

  • you need significantly smaller PNG files for web delivery while keeping alpha transparency
  • you want fast batch or stdin/stdout image compression in scripts and CI
  • you need a mature, standards-compliant palette quantizer with quality thresholds

When to avoid

  • you need truly lossless PNG optimization (use oxipng or zopflipng instead)
  • you are compressing non-PNG formats like JPEG or WebP
  • you cannot accept any lossy quality reduction in your images

Facets

cli-tool · maturity stable

image-processing compression cli image-processing web-development graphics files windows cli cross-platform png lossy-compression palette-quantization dithering image-optimization alpha-transparency libimagequant batch-processing linux macos

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Member repositories

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