The Lighthouse (2019) colour palette
Directed by Robert Eggers · Shot by Jarin Blaschke
The Lighthouse (2019) has a monochrome look: its frames read in tone rather than colour.
- #050505near black · 19.7%
- #4b4b4bdark grey · 18.6%
- #2b2b2bdark grey · 18.3%
- #6b6b6bmid grey · 14.1%
- #8e8e8emid grey · 13.1%
- #aeaeaelight grey · 6.2%
The Lighthouse (2019), shot by Jarin Blaschke, is monochrome: across 58 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from dark tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#050505), covering 19.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.
Colour
Monochrome
below 0.05 mean saturation
Saturation
monochrome
0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films
Luminance
dark
0.352 — brighter than 11% of ranked films
Measured across 58 frames. See the frames on the The Lighthouse page →
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