Movie colour palettes

The Witch poster

The Witch (2015) colour palette

Directed by Breck Eisner · Shot by Dean Semler

The Witch (2015), shot by Dean Semler, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 49 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#32322e), covering 19.2% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.916 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.162 — more saturated than 11% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.355 — brighter than 12% of ranked films

Measured across 49 frames. See the frames on the The Witch page →

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