A full color electro-luminescent display system, comprising: a display device comprised of a plurality of red, green, blue light-emitting elements and at least one additional color of light-emitting element having luminance efficiency greater than at least one of the red, green and blue light-emitting elements, wherein the light-emitting elements are laid out over a substrate in adjacent columns arranged along a first dimension and adjacent rows arranged along a second dimension, such that each pair of adjacent columns of light-emitting elements, and each row of light-emitting elements, contain each of the red, green, blue and additional color light-emitting elements; and a controller for receiving an input signal for an input image having a two-dimensional spatial content including edge boundaries between first and second regions of the input image and driving the display, the controller being responsive to the two-dimensional spatial content of the input image and increasing apparent display resolution while providing increased display power efficiency.