Movie colour palettes

The Handmaiden poster

The Handmaiden (2016) colour palette

Directed by Park Chan-wook · Shot by Chung Chung-hoon

The Handmaiden (2016), shot by Chung Chung-hoon, runs muted and warm, measured across 62 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and cyan. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32312d), covering 12.6% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.379 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.222 — more saturated than 35% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.375 — brighter than 23% of ranked films

Measured across 62 frames. See the frames on the The Handmaiden page →

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