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The Yards (2000) colour palette

Directed by James Gray · Shot by Harris Savides

The Yards (2000), shot by Harris Savides, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 62 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are yellow and orange. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33322a), covering 14.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.877 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.212 — more saturated than 30% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.333 — brighter than 5% of ranked films

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

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