The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) colour palette
Directed by William Wyler · Shot by Gregg Toland
- #030303near black · 16.6%
- #f8f8f8near white · 13.8%
- #c9c9c9light grey · 12.6%
- #717171mid grey · 12%
- #898989mid grey · 11.4%
- #464646dark grey · 11.4%
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), shot by Gregg Toland, is monochrome: across 65 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#030303), covering 16.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.
Colour
Monochrome
below 0.05 mean saturation
Saturation
monochrome
0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films
Luminance
mid-key
0.479 — brighter than 89% of ranked films
Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the The Best Years of Our Lives page →
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