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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) colour palette

Directed by Tomas Alfredson · Shot by Hoyte van Hoytema

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), shot by Hoyte van Hoytema, runs heavily desaturated and strongly warm, measured across 64 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33312d), covering 18.1% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits dark.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.823 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.148 — more saturated than 9% of ranked films

Luminance

dark

0.381 — brighter than 28% of ranked films

Measured across 64 frames. See the frames on the Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy page →

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