Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) colour palette
Directed by Jim Jarmusch · Shot by Frederick Elmes
- #030303near black · 19.5%
- #8a8a8amid grey · 15.5%
- #484848dark grey · 12.5%
- #c8c8c8light grey · 12%
- #fafafanear white · 12%
- #2d2d2ddark grey · 11.5%
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), shot by Frederick Elmes, is monochrome: across 40 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#030303), covering 19.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.
Colour
Monochrome
below 0.05 mean saturation
Saturation
monochrome
0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films
Luminance
mid-key
0.447 — brighter than 75% of ranked films
Measured across 40 frames. See the frames on the Coffee and Cigarettes page →
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