Dark color scheme
Some colors feature prominently in Dark. Their appearance on screen creates a vivid contrast to the dark and bleak color scheme of the show.
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Three colors which feature prominently are yellow, red and blue. In the color wheel, these three colors are equally distanced to each other and stand in a triadic relation to one another, just like the years in the cycle are 33 years apart.
Yellow[]
Jonas in his iconic yellow raincoat
Yellow barrels of radioactive material
- Jonas wears a yellow raincoat when outside.
- The Raider bar wrapper is gold with red lettering.
- The doors and trim of the high school are painted yellow.
- The barrels of nuclear waste from the 1986 incident are yellow.
- Agnes sometimes wears a bright yellow dress.
- The radiation suits are yellow.
- The anti-nuclear sweatshirt Mads Nielsen wears in his 1986 photo with Ulrich is yellow.
- The cassette tape in Mads' Walkman is yellow.
- Benni's umbrella is yellow.
- Hannah's massage table is yellow.
Red[]
The 1986 pfennig on a red lanyard
- The 1986 pfennig coin found on the bodies of the dead boys hangs on a red cord
- The red cord showing the path through the Winden Caves to the portal is red
- Martha, Claudia, and most of the women, sometimes wear bright red lipstick
- Franziska Doppler is angry about Elisabeth taking her red lipstick
- Claudia wears a bright red suit when she meets with Bernd
- The string Martha as Ariadne provides for navigating the labyrinth is red
- Agnes wears a red dress when she arrives in Winden in 1953
- Mikkel Nielsen is wearing a red coat when he is transported to 1986 (Past and Present)
- Claudia Tiedemann sometimes wears a red blouse as a child
Blue[]
The bunker in 1986
- The wallpaper in the 1986 bunker has a blue background
- Jana Nielsen wears blue sweaters, blouses, and shawls
- Tronte Nielsen wears a blue jacket when he arrives in Winden
- Agnes sometimes wears a blue dress
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