Upstream Color (2013) colour palette

Directed by Shane Carruth

#312f2edark grey · 9.8%
#f7f6f2pale yellow · 8.6%
#504f4ddark grey · 8.3%
#d1d1cflight grey · 6.5%
#100f0fnear black · 4.9%
#adafaclight grey · 4.3%

Upstream Color (2013) runs heavily desaturated and warm, measured across 65 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and blue. The single most common colour is dark grey (#312f2e), covering 9.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

warm

0.465 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

heavily desaturated

0.179 — more saturated than 16% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.514 — brighter than 96% of ranked films

Measured across 65 frames. See the frames on the Upstream Color page →

Films that grade like this

Nearest by warmth, saturation and luminance across 1,568 ranked films — measured, not matched on genre.

The Intern

2015 · Nancy Meyers

Borat Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime for Make Benefit Once Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

2020 · Jason Woliner

The Hangover

2009 · Todd Phillips

Little White Lies

2010 · Guillaume Canet

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

1988 · David Zucker

Two Weeks Notice

2002 · Marc Lawrence

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