Color depths

range of colors in a display

thumb|Black-and-white monochrome: the Eiffel Tower during the 1889 Exposition Universelle thumb|Color monochrome: night-vision devices usually produce monochrome images, typically in shades of green. thumb|right|A photograph of a macaw rendered with a monochrome palette of a limited number of shades thumb|A Philips branded [[digital audio player with a monochrome display and green backlight, common on older devices including mobile phones and handheld game systems]]

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image that consists of only two colors

in computer graphics, a finite set of colors

300px|thumb|right|Fragment of full-color image (left) vs Amiga HAM (right)

term

planar display mode of the Commodore Amiga computer

method of storing image information in a computer's memory or in an image file, so that each pixel is represented by one 8-bit byte