Clip Art
Pre-made illustrations and graphic elements designed for insertion into documents, presentations, and web pages.
Clip art refers to pre-made illustrations and graphic elements designed for insertion into documents, presentations, and web pages. While Microsoft Office's bundled clip art collection was once iconic, modern usage centers on downloading assets from online stock illustration services.
Clip art comes in two main formats: raster (PNG, GIF) and vector (SVG, AI). Vector formats maintain quality at any size, making them ideal when flexible scaling is needed. Raster formats suit photographic-style illustrations but degrade when enlarged.
For web use, file size management is important. Too many decorative illustrations slow page loading, so applying the image compression tool or using the SVG to PNG converter to export at appropriate dimensions helps maintain performance.