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Cars poster

Cars (2006) colour palette

Directed by John Lasseter · Shot by Jeremy Lasky

Cars (2006), shot by Jeremy Lasky, runs highly saturated and balanced, measured across 18 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are blue and red. The single most common colour is magenta (#ff00ff), covering 6.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

balanced

0.009 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

highly saturated

0.627 — more saturated than 99% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.501 — brighter than 94% of ranked films

Measured across 18 frames. See the frames on the Cars page →

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