I don't see anything wrong with your image. The gradient looks perfect on my monitor. Edit: it looks perfect because my sw/hw config (driver Xorg fbdev 0.4.2,

I don't see anything wrong with your image. The gradient looks perfect on my monitor. Edit: it looks perfect because my sw/hw config (driver Xorg fbdev 0.4.2, AMD Fusion E-350, Lenovo X120e laptop) does automatic dithering. I can see a tiny bit of dithering on the white end of the other gradient posted by nhw: http://file.st/KWb7XS7x http://file.st/KWb7XS7x Other that that, no banding on either images. Dithering invisible on yours. Dithering 24-bit colors really helps.