Rasterise SVG vector artwork to PNG at the resolution you need, transparency kept.
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A 5 KB SVG logo rasterized at 1024×1024 typically becomes 50 – 200 KB as PNG.
Quality: SVG is resolution-independent; PNG locks in a fixed pixel size. Once converted, you cannot scale up without quality loss.
Best for: embedding in software that doesn't support SVG (older Word, some email clients), uploading to platforms that require raster images.
Avoid when: you might need the image at multiple sizes — keep the SVG and rasterize on demand.
Tip: When converting SVG to PNG, pick the largest size you'll ever need. You can scale down losslessly but cannot scale up cleanly.
PNG is lossless and supports transparency — the two things JPG can't do. Screenshots, UI mockups, logos, icons, diagrams, and anything with sharp edges or text should be PNG. File sizes are larger than JPG for photographic content (usually 2-5×), so PNG is a bad choice for photographs unless you specifically need lossless. Note: PNG has no metadata for camera EXIF, so converting a photo JPG → PNG loses the camera info.
SVG stores shapes as mathematical descriptions — paths, bezier curves, text runs, gradients. PNG stores a fixed grid of colored pixels. Rasterization converts the math to pixels at a chosen resolution. At 1× resolution, a 500px-wide SVG becomes a 500px-wide PNG. At 2× (for Retina displays), it becomes 1000px. The SVG looks sharp at any output size because it's re-rendered from the math; the PNG locks in the pixels and blurs when scaled up. Choose your export resolution carefully — it's a one-way conversion.
Convert SVG to PNG when the destination doesn't support SVG (email clients, some CMS platforms, Microsoft Office, social media uploads). Export at 2× the display size for sharp rendering on high-DPI screens. For web use, keep SVG — it's smaller and resolution-independent.
Technical comparison of the two formats — useful for deciding which to use, or for confirming what changes during conversion.
| Property | SVG | PNG |
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| Full name | Scalable Vector Graphics | Portable Network Graphics |
| Year introduced | 2001 | 1996 |
| Developer / standard body | W3C | PNG Development Group / W3C |
| MIME type | image/svg+xml | image/png |
| File extension | .svg | .png |
| Compression | XML (text-based, gzip-compressible) | Lossless (DEFLATE) |
| Color / data depth | Vector (resolution-independent) | 24-bit truecolor + 8-bit alpha |
| Max dimensions / size | Unlimited (resolution-independent) | 2,147,483,647 × 2,147,483,647 px |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | APNG extension only |
| Standard / specification | W3C SVG 2 | W3C / ISO/IEC 15948 |
| Best for | Logos, icons, charts — anything that needs to scale without loss | Logos, screenshots, graphics with transparency or sharp edges |
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) is an XML-based vector image format that has been a W3C standard since 2001. Unlike raster formats such as JPEG or PNG that store images as grids of pixels, SVG defines images using mathematical paths, shapes, and curves. This fundamental difference means SVG images can be scaled to any size — from a tiny favicon to a billboard — without any loss in quality or sharpness.
SVG is best suited for logos, icons, illustrations, charts, and any graphic composed of clean lines and solid colours. Because SVG files are plain text XML, they can be styled with CSS, manipulated with JavaScript, and animated directly in the browser. They are also highly compressible and often smaller than equivalent raster images for simple graphics. However, SVG is not appropriate for photographs or complex images with millions of colours, where raster formats are far more efficient.
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