one 8-bit green and one 8-bit blue), each pixel contains one 8-bit number that indexes into the 256-color lookup table, which contains the RGB values (see illustration below). THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Up to 65,536 colors can be represented in the color palette. Most graphics formats provide 8-bit color or 24-bit color; however, graphics cards generally have an intermediate 16-bit color range ...

Today, however, as most computing is now at higher 8-bit increments (e.g., 32-bit or 64-bit), the term 8-bit is used to refer to color depth. As analog content is converted to digital, 8-bit allows a ...