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A Swedish Love Story (1970) colour palette

Directed by Roy Andersson · Shot by Jörgen Persson

A Swedish Love Story (1970), shot by Jörgen Persson, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#31302b), covering 9.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.636 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.215 — more saturated than 32% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.472 — brighter than 86% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the A Swedish Love Story page →

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