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Paterson poster

Paterson (2016) colour palette

Directed by Jim Jarmusch · Shot by Frederick Elmes

Paterson (2016), shot by Frederick Elmes, runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 60 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#312f2d), covering 15.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.332 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.17 — more saturated than 13% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.378 — brighter than 26% of ranked films

Measured across 60 frames. See the frames on the Paterson page →

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