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If Original vs Lossless does not look the same, it is because your browser does not do color management correctly. JPEG XL's lossless is mathematically lossless, so there cannot be any actual difference.

What can happen though is that the "Original PNG" doesn't have an ICC profile and gets treated by your browser in a different way than the PNG produced by the jxl decoder. This is a problem of your browser though, not of JPEG XL, and likely the image you see for "lossless JPEG XL" is the correct one.

According to IrfanView, the Lossless JPEG XL one has 167959 unique colors, while the original one has 233263.

For me it looks different in Firefox, the same in Brave (the uncompressed one in Firefox is the odd one out)

I'm curious how IrfanView is counting colors then.

Looks identical on Windows, Chrome Canary 93.0.4549.0

Both comparisons appear identical to me in Firefox.

In Chrome it looks identical.