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by jagger27 1680 days ago
Shouldn't dithered images also benefit from the limited palette?
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Exactly, sending them as true color makes no sense
I grabbed one of the dithered images off the article and saved it as an rgb png and as an indexed png with 255 colors.

rgb: 75kb

indexed: 35kb

So indexing does look like it could save a lot. I do wonder if it can still beat out say jpeg or webp though.