Movie colour palettes

Room poster

Room (2015) colour palette

Directed by Lenny Abrahamson · Shot by Danny Cohen

Room (2015), shot by Danny Cohen, 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 (#30302f), covering 14.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.305 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.161 — more saturated than 11% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.433 — brighter than 63% of ranked films

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

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