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No Country For Old Men colour palette

Directed by Joel Coen · Shot by Roger Deakins

No Country For Old Men, shot by Roger Deakins, runs muted 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 (#34322c), covering 8.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.705 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.273 — more saturated than 60% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.427 — brighter than 58% of ranked films

Measured across 62 frames. See the frames on the No Country For Old Men page →

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