Est. 2024 · San Francisco
Every great film tells its story in color
We watch films frame by frame, extract their true color palettes, and arrange them into prints you can hang on your wall. Each piece is a portrait of a film, told entirely through color.
How a film becomes a print
It starts with watching. We sample thousands of frames from each film, from opening title to final credits. The colors you see in each print are the actual colors of the film, extracted computationally and arranged to capture its visual identity.
The palette is curated to capture both the dominant tones and the rare, vivid moments that make each film visually distinct. A splash of red in a sea of grey. The golden hour of a sunset that lasts three seconds on screen but defines the entire film's warmth.
Each print contains 80 colors, carefully selected to represent the full range of a film's palette without letting large dark or neutral areas drown out the moments of vibrancy that give a film its character.
Watch
We study every frame
Extract
Thousands of colors sampled
Curate
80 colors distilled
Museum-quality archival paper
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For the walls of people who watch films twice
Our prints are made for the kind of person who notices the color grading shift in the third act. Who knows that Wes Anderson and Roger Deakins see the world differently. Who wants their living space to reflect what they love without being obvious about it.
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Printed with intention
Every print is produced on archival-quality heavyweight paper with a warm, textured finish. The colors are matched precisely to the film. Framed options use solid wood with clean lines. No mass production. We print each order as it comes in.
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A growing catalog of cinema
We started with a few hundred films we love. Now the collection is in the thousands and still growing. From Kurosawa to Greta Gerwig, from 1920s silent films to last month's A24 release. If it was shot with care, we want to study its color.
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles
The studio
Small team, big obsession
Color in Film is a small studio based in San Francisco. We come from backgrounds in fine art, design, and software, but the thing that actually connects us is an unreasonable amount of time spent watching and rewatching movies.
The idea started simply: we kept noticing how certain films have an unmistakable color identity. You can recognize the dusty amber of a Coen Brothers film, the neon sickness of a Refn film, or the pastel precision of a Wes Anderson film from a single frame. We wanted to see the whole palette at once.
So we built a system to extract it. What started as a personal project became a studio. And the collection keeps growing because we keep finding films worth studying.
Find your film
Over 3,000 films and counting. Prints, framed options, and sizes for every wall.
Browse the collection