Movie colour palettes

Hereditary poster

Hereditary (2018) colour palette

Directed by Ari Aster · Shot by Pawel Pogorzelski

Hereditary (2018), shot by Pawel Pogorzelski, runs muted and warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is dark grey (#30322f), covering 9.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.378 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.255 — more saturated than 52% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.388 — brighter than 31% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Hereditary page →

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