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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) colour palette

Directed by André Øvredal · Shot by Roman Osin

The main colours of Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) are deep cyan (#142b29), deep orange (#49362d) and orange (#544735), over a near-black base: a strongly warm, natural palette, measured across the film's frames.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019), shot by Roman Osin, runs natural and strongly warm, measured across 55 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is dark grey (#313330), covering 8.5% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.611 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.332 — more saturated than 80% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.391 — brighter than 33% of ranked films

Measured across 55 frames. See the frames on the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark page →

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