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Three Colours: Blue (1993) colour palette

Directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski · Shot by Slawomir Idziak

The main colours of Three Colours: Blue (1993) are deep orange (#47352e) and deep red (#231613), over a near-black base: a balanced, muted palette, measured across the film's frames.

Three Colours: Blue (1993), shot by Slawomir Idziak, runs muted and balanced, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33302b), covering 10.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

balanced

0.05 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.274 — more saturated than 60% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.373 — brighter than 21% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Three Colours: Blue page →

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