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Letters to Max (2014) colour palette

Directed by Eric Baudelaire · Shot by Eric Baudelaire

Letters to Max (2014), shot by Eric Baudelaire, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 162 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#30302f), covering 13.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.468 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.159 — more saturated than 11% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.482 — brighter than 90% of ranked films

Measured across 162 frames. See the frames on the Letters to Max page →

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