Icon file formats

Formats for the small pictures a desktop uses: icons that bundle one picture in several sizes, so the system can pick the right one for a taskbar, a file list or a high resolution screen, and the mouse pointers that move across it.

Formats

.ANI

Windows animated cursor

Animated Windows mouse pointers: cursor frames and timing in RIFF chunks.

.ICL

Windows icon library

Many Windows icons as resources in a 16-bit NE library with no code.

.ICNS

Apple Icon Image

macOS application icons, one picture in many sizes, mostly as PNG.

.ICO

Windows icon

Windows icons and cursors: one picture in several sizes, as bitmaps or PNGs.

.INFO

Amiga Workbench icon

Amiga icons: the picture and Workbench settings for the file of the same name.

.XBM

X BitMap

Black and white X Window System images, written as C source code.

.XPM

X PixMap

Colour X Window System icons written as C strings, one character per pixel.