Format
Apple Icon Image Format
Summary
- Name
- Apple Icon Image Format
- Identifiers
- PUID: fmt/1185
- Format type
- Image (Raster)
- Description
- The Apple Icon Image Format is the icon format used by Apple's Mac family of Operating Systems.
- File extensions
-
icns - Source
- Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives
- Developed by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
- Supported by
- Apple Computer, Inc.
Internal signatures
Apple Icon Image Format
- Note
- BOF: icns{4}(ICON|ICN#|icm#|icm4|icm8|ics#|ics4|ics8|is32|s8mk|icl4|icl8|il32|l8mk|ich#|ich4|ich8|ih32|h8mk|it32|t8mk|icp4|icp5|icp6|ic07|ic08|ic09|ic10|ic11|ic12|ic13|TOC |icnV) - This list is based on the list found on Wikipedia and may need to expand over time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Icon_Image_format
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
69636E73{4}(49434F4E|49434E23|69636D23|69636D34|69636D38|69637323|69637334|69637338|69733332|73386D6B|69636C34|69636C38|696C3332|6C386D6B|69636823|69636834|69636838|69683332|68386D6B|69743332|74386D6B|69637034|69637035|69637036|69633037|69633038|69633039|69633130|69633131|69633132|69633133|544F4320|69636E56)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Added in V94
- Release date
- 17 September 2018
Apple Icon Image Format: Signature developed through PRONOM Research.
Apple Icon Image Format: Full entry added.