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# RGB565
RGB565 is color format, or a way of representing [colors](color.md) with just 2 [bytes](byte.md) (unlike traditional 24 bit RGB formats that use 3 bytes, one for each component), that is 16 [bits](bit.md) (giving a total of 65536 distinct colors), by using 5 bits (highest) for red, 6 bits for green (to which human eye is most sensitive) and 5 bits for blue; it can also be seen as a color [palette](palette.md). It is similar to [rgb332](rgb332.md) -- it's basically a mid way between RGB332 and full 24bit RGB against which it saves one byte per pixel, but compared to RGB332 [byte sex](byte_sex.md) comes to play here. Practically speaking you will rarely need anything more than this, 65 thousand colors are absolutely sufficient for everything.
RGB565 is color format, or a way of representing [colors](color.md) with just 2 [bytes](byte.md) (unlike traditional 24 bit RGB formats that use 3 bytes, one for each component), that is 16 [bits](bit.md) (giving a total of 65536 distinct colors), by using 5 bits (highest) for red, 6 bits for green (to which human eye is most sensitive) and 5 bits for blue; it can also be seen as a color [palette](palette.md). It is similar to [RGB332](rgb332.md) -- it's basically a mid way between RGB332 and full 24bit RGB against which it saves one byte per pixel, but compared to RGB332 [byte sex](byte_sex.md) comes to play here. Practically speaking you will rarely need anything more than this, 65 thousand colors are absolutely sufficient for everything.
Yet another similar format to this one is [RGB555](rgb555.md) which sacrifices one useful bit for gaining the nice property of having the same size of each component. The one "wasted" bit may also be utilized, e.g. for marking transparency.