Movie colour palettes

The Straight Story poster

The Straight Story (1999) colour palette

Directed by David Lynch · Shot by Freddie Francis

The Straight Story (1999), shot by Freddie Francis, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 61 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and green. The single most common colour is deep yellow (#353228), covering 10.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.767 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.276 — more saturated than 61% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.417 — brighter than 52% of ranked films

Measured across 61 frames. See the frames on the The Straight Story page →

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