Interesting new image format

Found this while reading my feeds today. Looks interesting, compact and fast.

https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/11/qoi-fast-lossless-image-compression

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Nice find!

It may well be something to look into for our font glyph compression.

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Indeed. Impressive speed and good compression results fairly close to png compression. And all in a nice single header, 300 LOC, so it’s quite small as well.

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An update:

https://phoboslab.org/log/2021/12/qoi-specification

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Also interesting.
Fast png writer vs qoi.

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We’re looking into both QOI and FPNG.

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