Talk:8-bit Monkey/@comment-5334494-20140318011132/@comment-5294711-20140318135331

@Raindrop FYI, 8-bit, in a graphical sense (which is the case with favicons, and this picture is obviously made in the favicon editor) means only 256 colors (since there are only one byte (8 bits) to register the color of a pixel, so there are only 2^8 = 256 colors, there are 3 red bits, 3 green bits, 2 blue bits, which means 8 levels of red and green and only 4 levels of blue).

Most displays nowadays use 24-bit color, which means more than 16 million colors (one whole byte (256 levels) for each color, red, green, and blue). Some file formats even use a full "hex byte" (how I call 8-hex-digits values, since 2 hex digits = 1 byte) for the color, with the last binary byte being alpha (transparency)