pngquant

PNG converter and lossy image compressor. More information: <https://pngquant.org/>.

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/pngquant.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install pngquant
Ubuntu
apt-get install pngquant
Alpine
apk add pngquant
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S pngquant
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install pngquant
Fedora
dnf install pngquant
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install pngquant
OS X
brew install pngquant
Raspbian
apt-get install pngquant
Dockerfile
dockerfile.run/pngquant
Docker
docker run cmd.cat/pngquant pngquant powered by Commando

PNG converter and lossy image compressor. More information: <https://pngquant.org/>.

  • Compress a specific PNG as much as possible and write result to a new file:
    pngquant path/to/file.png
  • Compress a specific PNG and override original:
    pngquant --ext .png --force path/to/file.png
  • Try to compress a specific PNG with custom quality (skip if below the min value):
    pngquant --quality 0-100 path/to/file.png
  • Compress a specific PNG with the number of colors reduced to 64:
    pngquant 64 path/to/file.png
  • Compress a specific PNG and skip if the file is larger than the original:
    pngquant --skip-if-larger path/to/file.png
  • Compress a specific PNG and remove metadata:
    pngquant --strip path/to/file.png
  • Compress a specific PNG and save it to the given path:
    pngquant path/to/file.png --output path/to/file.png
  • Compress a specific PNG and show progress:
    pngquant --verbose path/to/file.png

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