How PNG Actually Stores Your Pixels

I&rsquo;m starting a series on file formats. Not &ldquo;here are the ten image formats you should know,&rdquo; but the actual bytes: what&rsquo;s in the file, in what order, and why someone decided it should be that way. Starting with PNG, because it&rsquo;s the format most developers touch every day and almost nobody has looked inside. I am likely to cover a few things that other explainer…