Welcome to the

JPEG XL Community Site

Industry-leading image compression & fidelity

Smaller Files, Higher Quality, Faster Downloads.

Unmatched in quality-per-byte, JPEG XL delivers best-of-breed image compression from web quality through lossless.

JPEG XL is a new international standard (ISO/IEC 18181) created by the JPEG committee. This website is a resource by and for the wider community of enthusiasts who want to promote this new standard. More information can also be found on the official JPEG XL page.

JPEG XL is…

Up to 55% Smaller Than JPEG

JPEG

JPEG XL

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Up to 25% Smaller Than AVIF

AVIF

JPEG XL

AVIF JPEG XL

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Quality: 82

Size: 2.0 KB

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Distance: 9, Effort: 7

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SSIMU2 SCORE:

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Visually Lossless Compression

Faithful High-Fidelity

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Say goodbye to JPEG artifacts and WebP’s inconsistent results. When quality matters, make it indistinguishable from the original at a fraction of the size — automatically. JPEG XL is visually lossless at less than half the bits-per-pixel of JPEG.

Lossless Compression

Pixel-Perfect Reproduction, Tiny Footprint

WEBP

15%

Larger

PNG

46%

Larger

AVIF

63%

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BMP

75%

Larger

Unlike its predecessors, JPEG XL delivers best-of-breed lossless compression making pixel-precision smaller than ever — at up to 32 bits per channel. It handily beats WebP on complex content without the 8-bit and size limitations. AVIF? Not even close.

Lossless JPEG Transcoding

Old-School to New-School — and Back

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Transcode existing JPEGs to JPEG XL for an average 20% savings. Plus, it’s reversible. Restore original JPEGs with minimal computation — so fast you can do it on the fly.

Wide-Gamut & HDR

Stunning Color Accuracy

Your phone and displays have supported wide-gamut and HDR for years — shouldn’t your file format too? JPEG XL is specifically designed to handle the rich colors of high-precision, high-dynamic range images.

Progressive Image Delivery

Responsive By Design

With JPEG XL’s state-of-the-art progressive encoding and decoding, you’ll see an image sooner than with other formats — with as little as 15% of the image loaded. It supports both saliency progression (visually important areas of the image delivered first) and reordering (middle data sent first).

Fast Encoding & Decoding

Save and Load Without Waiting

Graphs adapted from JPEG XL and the Pareto Front
(Jon Sneyers, Cloudinary blog, February 2024).

Nobody likes progress bars. JPEG XL is designed to be blink-of-an-eye fast on today’s systems — no special hardware required. When comparing image size versus encoding speed, JPEG XL wins hands down for high quality and lossless photo-like content.

Capture Through Delivery

One Format, Endless Possibilities

JPEG XL is the first format to offer optimal performance throughout the entire creative workflow, from capture in high bit-depth, HDR, and wide-gamut formats, through editing, web, and print delivery. Because of its industry-leading lossless and lossy compression, JPEG XL provides the most versatile and efficient solution — something AVIF can’t do.

Environmental Impact

If all current JPEGs were delivered as JPEG XLs (with an average 20% decrease in file size), we could save:

4.87

GWh

(gigawatt-hours)

per day

Equivalent to powering 487,000 average US homes for an hour and saving 3,500 metric tons of CO2 emissions per day.

And Much More

CMYK & Print Support

JPEG XL streamlines image authoring with features like layer support, up to 4099 channels for selection masks and spot colors, and CMYK compatibility for print-oriented use cases. It’s an ideal format for all creative workflows.

High Bit Depth Support

Up to 32 bits per channel for higher precision image representation, enabling more accurate color reproduction — octillions instead of millions of colors. Perfect for applications that demand the highest fidelity and realism in visual content.

Fully FOSS

Royalty-free and open-source (FOSS) with a BSD-3 license, JPEG XL’s libjxl reference implementation is production-ready, efficient, and robust. With continuous performance updates, you can use it confidently in your apps and platform.

Future-Proof

JPEG XL is a future-proof format designed to outlast its predecessors. With no inherent limitations on image size or color precision, its flexible framework allows the addition of new features and functionality seamlessly and gradually — over time, as needed.

Automatic Visual Fidelity Targeting

No more JPEG or WebP quality roulette! JPEG XL lets you target visual fidelity, not cryptic parameters. It defaults to visually lossless output, ensuring consistent results without the need for trial and error.

Photographic & Non-Photographic Images

While best-in-class for compressing photographic images, JPEG XL is even better at efficiently compressing and storing non-photographic (synthetic) images such as graphics, illustrations, and digital art.

Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)

Building the Future of Image Standards

JPEG XL was created by the JPEG committee. The committee’s work ensures that JPEG XL meets the highest standards of performance, efficiency, and compatibility, benefiting users across various industries and applications. Learn more about the JPEG Committee’s work and their other projects at their official website: jpeg.org.