Technical MIME Specification & Web Server Guide

image/tiff

Technical overview, official IANA specification, header magic bytes, and server configuration snippets for .TIFF files (Tagged Image File Format).

File Extension

.tiff

Content-Type Header

image/tiff

Format Category

Images

Standard Specification

TIFF 6.0 Spec

Description & Usage

High-quality uncompressed raster format preferred in publishing and print scanning.

HTTP Server Content-Type Configuration Code

# Nginx mime.types configuration for .tiff
types {
    image/tiff    tiff;
}

OS Compatibility Matrix

Windows

macOS

Linux

Android

iOS

Want to test header signatures or binary files?

Run binary magic byte inspection in Magic Byte Detector.

Frequently Asked Questions

The official MIME content type for .tiff files is "image/tiff". Web servers use this header to instruct browsers how to render or process .tiff data.