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@bep bep commented Jun 1, 2026

AVIF's quality scale is not perceptually comparable to JPEG/WebP:
libavif anchors its "good" default at 60, where Hugo's universal 75
produced visibly higher quality and larger files. AVIF now defaults to
60 while JPEG and WebP keep 75. An explicit imaging.quality,
imaging.avif.quality or a per-image qNN still wins.

Fixes #14979

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com

AVIF's quality scale is not perceptually comparable to JPEG/WebP:
libavif anchors its "good" default at 60, where Hugo's universal 75
produced visibly higher quality and larger files. AVIF now defaults to
60 while JPEG and WebP keep 75. An explicit imaging.quality,
imaging.avif.quality or a per-image qNN still wins.

Fixes gohugoio#14979

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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jmooring commented Jun 2, 2026

Could we deprecate the imaging.quality config, and set defaults for imaging.avif.quality, imaging.jpeg.quality, and imaging.webp.quality instead? It would be easier to explain. Given what we now know/have, if we were starting from scratch we wouldn't have a global quality setting.

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bep commented Jun 2, 2026

Could we deprecate the imaging.quality config, and set defaults for imaging.avif.quality, imaging.jpeg.quality, and imaging.webp.quality instead?

Yea, we should do that.

In favour of the new per-image quality setting.

See gohugoio#14979
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Make quality 60 the new default for AVIF

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