Systems and apparatuses provide a digital architecture with merged non-linear emission clocks for a display panel. In one embodiment, a display driver hardware circuit includes decoder logic to store a mapping between a plurality of non-linear gray scale clock signals and a merged non-linear gray scale clock signal that represents a combination of the plurality of non-linear gray scale clock signals including first and second non-linear gray scale clock signals. In one example, the first non-linear gray scale clock signal is associated with at least one display element of a first color and the second non-linear gray scale clock signal is associated with at least one display element of a second color. A driver circuitry is coupled to the decoder logic. The driver circuitry includes a counter to store a number of pulses of the merged non-linear gray scale clock signal and driving circuitry to cause emission of the at least one display element of a first color based on the first non-linear gray scale clock signal.