Provided is a light-emitting diode (LED) system (10). The LED system (10) includes an LED array (12) comprising a plurality of LEDs that are each activated to provide an LED current to provide illumination in one of a plurality of colors. The LED system (10) also includes an LED controller (14) configured to activate the plurality of LEDs based on a digital input (DIG_IN) comprising grayscale data corresponding to activation of the plurality of LEDs and further comprising compensation time data corresponding to an activation pulse-width of each of the plurality of LEDs based on a respective one of the plurality of colors of the respective each one of the plurality of LEDs to maintain a substantially equal activation time of the plurality of LEDs.
