Movie colour palettes

Effi Briest poster

Effi Briest (1974) colour palette

Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Shot by Jürgen Jürges

Effi Briest (1974), shot by Jürgen Jürges, is monochrome: across 65 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from bright tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near white (#fafaf9), covering 16.9% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits bright.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0.002 — more saturated than 3% of ranked films

Luminance

bright

0.52 — brighter than 97% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Effi Briest page →

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