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How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) colour palette

Directed by Dean DeBlois · Shot by Gil Zimmerman

The main colours of How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) are cyan (#354f4c), over a near-black base: a warm, muted palette, measured across the film's frames.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014), shot by Gil Zimmerman, runs muted and warm, measured across 25 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is dark grey (#323130), covering 14.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.279 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.189 — more saturated than 20% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.456 — brighter than 80% of ranked films

Measured across 25 frames. See the frames on the How to Train Your Dragon 2 page →

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