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Conan The Barbarian (1982) colour palette

Directed by John Milius · Shot by Duke Callaghan

Conan The Barbarian (1982), shot by Duke Callaghan, runs natural and strongly warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#332b2b), covering 9.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.732 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.331 — more saturated than 80% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.38 — brighter than 27% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Conan The Barbarian page →

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