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Winter Light poster

Winter Light (1963) colour palette

Directed by Ingmar Bergman · Shot by Sven Nykvist

Winter Light (1963), shot by Sven Nykvist, is monochrome: across 47 sampled frames the palette carries effectively no colour, so its look is built from mid-key tonal range rather than hue. The single most common colour is near black (#050505), covering 17.8% of sampled colour. Overall the image sits mid-key.

Colour

Monochrome

below 0.05 mean saturation

Saturation

monochrome

0 — more saturated than 0% of ranked films

Luminance

mid-key

0.459 — brighter than 81% of ranked films

Measured across 47 frames. See the frames on the Winter Light page →

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