Movie colour palettes

The Northman poster

The Northman (2022) colour palette

Directed by Robert Eggers · Shot by Jarin Blaschke

The Northman (2022), shot by Jarin Blaschke, runs natural and warm, measured across 63 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#2a2e30), covering 12.7% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

warm

0.554 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

natural

0.329 — more saturated than 80% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.328 — brighter than 4% of ranked films

Measured across 63 frames. See the frames on the The Northman page →

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