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Lincoln (2012) colour palette

Directed by Steven Spielberg · Shot by Janusz Kamiński

Lincoln (2012), shot by Janusz Kamiński, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 79 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and yellow. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32302c), covering 15.4% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.766 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.173 — more saturated than 14% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.345 — brighter than 10% of ranked films

Measured across 79 frames. See the frames on the Lincoln page →

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