{
 "id": "microsoft-paint-2",
 "name": "Microsoft Paint",
 "category": "image",
 "identifiers": {
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   "msp"
  ],
  "puid": [
   "fmt/912"
  ],
  "wikidata": [
   "Q28206620"
  ],
  "magic": [
   {
    "offset": 0,
    "hex": "4c696e53",
    "notes": "Microsoft Paint v2"
   }
  ],
  "signatures": [
   {
    "name": "Microsoft Paint v2",
    "sequences": [
     {
      "position": "bof",
      "offset": 0,
      "pattern": "4c696e53{22}000000000000"
     }
    ]
   }
  ]
 },
 "status": "unknown",
 "summary": "Prior to Windows 3.0, the bundled version of Microsoft Paint used a proprietary format with the extension MSP. The format supported only 1 bit monochrome graphics. Windows 3.0 replaced Microsoft Paint with an application called Paintbrush, that could open MSP files, but would save only as PCX or BMP.",
 "tools": [
  {
   "name": "Graphic Workshop",
   "url": "http://www.mindworkshop.com/gwspro.html",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": false
  },
  {
   "name": "Microsoft Paint",
   "url": "https://microsoft.com/windows/paint",
   "reads": true,
   "writes": true,
   "license": "proprietary license"
  }
 ],
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   "name": "PRONOM fmt/912",
   "url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/PRONOM/fmt/912",
   "kind": "format-doc"
  },
  {
   "name": "Wikidata Q28206620",
   "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28206620",
   "kind": "wiki"
  },
  {
   "name": "File Formats Wiki",
   "url": "http://fileformats.archiveteam.org/wiki/MSP_(Microsoft_Paint)",
   "kind": "wiki"
  }
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "sources": [
   "pronom",
   "wikidata"
  ]
 },
 "updated": "2026-10-20",
 "version": "2",
 "aliases": [],
 "structure": [],
 "parsers": [],
 "conversions": [],
 "samples": [],
 "claims": [],
 "verification": [],
 "family": "msp-microsoft-paint"
}