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The Equalizer (2014) colour palette

Directed by Antoine Fuqua · Shot by Mauro Fiore

The Equalizer (2014), shot by Mauro Fiore, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 178 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2e2e2c), covering 16.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.666 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.174 — more saturated than 14% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.371 — brighter than 22% of ranked films

Measured across 178 frames. See the frames on the The Equalizer page →

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