Graphics are visual images or designs, especially ones created for a specific purpose like explaining information, making something look appealing, or telling a story. When you see charts and diagrams in a textbook, colorful illustrations in a video game, or the animated title sequence of a movie, you're looking at graphics.

A weather map with icons showing rain and sunshine uses graphics to help you understand the forecast at a glance. A poster advertising a school play uses graphics to catch your eye and communicate important details.

In technology, graphics can also refer to the images and visual effects a computer can create and display. Video games depend on good graphics to make their worlds look realistic or stylized. Graphic designers are professionals who create visual materials like logos, websites, book covers, and advertisements.

Related words include pictograph (a picture that represents a word) and photograph.