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Fahrenheit 451 poster

Fahrenheit 451 (1966) colour palette

Directed by François Truffaut · Shot by Nicolas Roeg

Fahrenheit 451 (1966), shot by Nicolas Roeg, 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 (#332f2c), covering 9.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.632 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.304 — more saturated than 72% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.442 — brighter than 71% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Fahrenheit 451 page →

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