IMHO the right format for line drawings and such is either PNG or GIF,
with the smallest being indexed PNG (GIF is 2nd smallest).  JPG at 75%
was about 4x bigger for my test case (screenshot of a PCB):

 1145874 Dec 18 11:07 test.ppm   the original, 24-bit uncompressed
   20442 Dec 18 11:08 test.pngi  indexed PNG
   33623 Dec 18 11:08 test.gif   indexed GIF
   35326 Dec 18 11:08 test.png   24-bit PNG
  115728 Dec 18 11:07 test.jpg   24-bit JPG

And, of course, pretty much everything supports GIF.

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