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Bad Boys (1995) colour palette

Directed by Michael Bay · Shot by Howard Atherton

The main colours of Bad Boys (1995) are orange (#50473b) and deep blue (#0c122e), over a near-black base: a warm, natural palette, measured across the film's frames.

Bad Boys (1995), shot by Howard Atherton, runs natural and warm, measured across 58 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#302f2d), covering 12.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.44 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.304 — more saturated than 72% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.395 — brighter than 35% of ranked films

Measured across 58 frames. See the frames on the Bad Boys page →

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