Display showing weird color scheme

All of sudden the display is showing very faint colors. It seems to me it is showing only thousands of colors instead of millions, eventhough under display preferences millions is selected.

How do you know it is 32,000 colors, and not millions?
Have you looked at Apple menu (the blue Apple logo in the upper left corner)
-> System Preferences -> Appearance -> select highlight color's popup menu on its right and select other, and then checked the Spectrum?
Here's a sample from the
32,000 colors:
Here's a millions of colors:
Which spectrum do you see?

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