File Formats

Data organized into a grid of cells. Microsoft Excel’s XLSX is a de facto standard.

Moving pictures and sound together. MP4, AVI and MKV are prevalent formats.

Visual data like photos and graphics. JPG, PNG, and GIF are typical formats.

Plain unformatted text. TXT files are the universal standard.

Matroska Video. A versatile multimedia container that can hold video, audio, subtitles, and metadata.

The standard ebook format. Supports flowable text content with images and formatting.

A modern image format that offers better compression for the web than JPG or PNG.

Scalable Vector Graphics. An XML-based image format that can scale to any size without pixelation.

A lightweight markup language for formatting plain text. Used all over the web, including in this article!

Similar to JSON but strives to be even more human-friendly. Great for configuration files.