Movie colour palettes

Wild At Heart poster

Wild At Heart (1990) colour palette

Directed by David Lynch · Shot by Frederick Elmes

Wild At Heart (1990), shot by Frederick Elmes, runs muted and strongly warm, measured across 62 sampled frames. Its two dominant hue families are orange and red. The single most common colour is dark grey (#33302d), covering 12.3% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Warmth

strongly warm

0.779 on −1 cool to +1 warm

Saturation

muted

0.277 — more saturated than 62% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.404 — brighter than 42% of ranked films

Measured across 62 frames. See the frames on the Wild At Heart page →

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