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I am working on a little weather station with an ESP8266. I populating the screen with sometimes only 2, 3, 4 colors requiring 2 bits per pixel. Why am I forced to send 16 bits per pixel? Do any chips like the ILI9341 I am using or others support defining pallet colors and just sending bits that represents the pallet color?

Normally they support writing RGB666, RGB565 or RGB444 after a few init commands.
I usually use RGB565 as it fits 1 pixel in 2 bytes, making writes faster and I often don’t need the extra colour precision of RGB666.