Ida (2013) colour palette

Directed by Paweł Pawlikowski · Shot by Ryszard Lenczewski

#2f2f2fdark grey · 16.3%
#040404near black · 15.4%
#707070mid grey · 14.5%
#8e8e8emid grey · 13.2%
#4b4b4bdark grey · 11.7%
#cececelight grey · 11.1%

Ida (2013), shot by Ryszard Lenczewski, is monochrome: across 65 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2f2f2f), covering 16.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.437 — brighter than 67% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Ida page →

Films that grade like this

Nearest by warmth, saturation and luminance across 1,568 ranked films — measured, not matched on genre.

The Seventh Seal

1957 · Ingmar Bergman

Double Indemnity

1944 · Billy Wilder

To Kill A Mockingbird

1962 · Robert Mulligan

The Killing

1956 · Stanley Kubrick

Strangers on a Train

1951 · Alfred Hitchcock

Paths of Glory

1957 · Stanley Kubrick

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