---
title: MTLPixelFormat.bgr5A1Unorm
framework: metal
role: symbol
role_heading: Case
path: metal/mtlpixelformat/bgr5a1unorm
---

# MTLPixelFormat.bgr5A1Unorm

Packed 16-bit format with normalized unsigned integer color components: 5 bits each for BGR and 1 for alpha, packed into 16 bits.

## Declaration

```swift
case bgr5A1Unorm
```

## Mentioned in

Developing Metal apps that run in Simulator Understanding color-renderable pixel format sizes

## See Also

### Packed 16-bit pixel formats

- [MTLPixelFormat.b5g6r5Unorm](metal/mtlpixelformat/b5g6r5unorm.md)
- [MTLPixelFormat.a1bgr5Unorm](metal/mtlpixelformat/a1bgr5unorm.md)
- [MTLPixelFormat.abgr4Unorm](metal/mtlpixelformat/abgr4unorm.md)