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Kill Your Darlings (2013) colour palette

Directed by John Krokidas · Shot by Reed Morano

Kill Your Darlings (2013), shot by Reed Morano, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 62 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33302d), covering 13.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.711 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.166 — more saturated than 12% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.392 — brighter than 34% of ranked films

Measured across 62 frames. See the frames on the Kill Your Darlings page →

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