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Darkest Hour (2017) colour palette

Directed by Joe Wright · Shot by Bruno Delbonnel

Darkest Hour (2017), shot by Bruno Delbonnel, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 244 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f2f2e), covering 19.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.711 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.125 — more saturated than 6% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.396 — brighter than 38% of ranked films

Measured across 244 frames. See the frames on the Darkest Hour page →

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