Killer’s Kiss (1955) colour palette
Directed by Stanley Kubrick · Shot by Stanley Kubrick
- #040404near black · 19.4%
- #303030dark grey · 14.8%
- #8c8c8cmid grey · 14.2%
- #4a4a4adark grey · 12.3%
- #6e6e6emid grey · 11.7%
- #cbcbcblight grey · 10.8%
Killer’s Kiss (1955), shot by Stanley Kubrick, 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 near black (#040404), covering 19.4% 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
0.423 — brighter than 56% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Killer’s Kiss page →
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