[hulitu]

> I wanted a simple format that allows you to load/save images quickly, without dealing with the complexity of JPEG or PNG. Even BMP, TIFF and other "legacy" formats are way more complicated to handle when you start looking into it. So that's what QOI aims to replace.

XPM ? compressed with gzip ?

[abainbridge]

XPM and gzip are still not that simple. QOI is much simpler.