# Type Alias: Base64

> **Base64**: `Brand`\<`string`, `"Base64"`\>

Base64 is basically a file encoded as a string.

Base64 is a group of similar binary-to-text encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation. The term Base64 originates from a specific MIME content transfer encoding.

Learn more here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Base64
