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Question about 8bit colour

I know that 16bit colour is split up into 3 "5bit" sections but i can't
seems to find how exactly 8bit is split up?....

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> I know that 16bit colour is split up into 3 "5bit" sections but i can't
seems to find how exactly 8bit is split up?....


8 bit colour is typically an indexed format, where the unsigned value is a
look up index into a 256 entry colour table. In can, alternatively be used
simply as a grayscale value.

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