7.1
Viewer Rating
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Documentary • 2025 • 82 min • Older Kids (7+)
The King of Color (2025)
The King of Color (2025)
Overview
Lawrence Herbert, inventor of the Pantone Matching System, is profiled in Patrick Creadon's documentary. With exclusive access to interviews with the 96-year-old Herbert, Creadon takes a stance of correcting his subject's underrecognized legacy, posing the central question of how one man's Depression-era vision standardized color communication across global industries.
Starring Cast
Larry Herbert
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Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Political: Center
Diversity: Low
Family Values: Mixed
Judaism: Positive
Viewer Rating
7.1
Overview
Lawrence Herbert, inventor of the Pantone Matching System, is profiled in Patrick Creadon's documentary. With exclusive access to interviews with the 96-year-old Herbert, Creadon takes a stance of correcting his subject's underrecognized legacy, posing the central question of how one man's Depression-era vision standardized color communication across global industries.
Starring Cast
Larry Herbert
Where to watch
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Traditional
Primary
Political: Center
Confidence: Low
The documentary centers on Lawrence Herbert's invention of the Pantone Matching System as a solution to inconsistent color reproduction in design industries, emphasizing individual ingenuity and business success without advancing political ideologies.
Diversity: Low
Confidence: Medium
The documentary features a white male subject and his family without visible diversity in representation. Its narrative positively frames entrepreneurial success without critiquing traditional identities or incorporating DEI themes.
Secondary
Family Values: Mixed
Confidence: Medium
The documentary touches peripherally on Herbert's divorce following a midlife crisis, subsequent 'party years,' remarriage, and interactions with his adult children, who offer mild criticism of his self-focus, without endorsing or critiquing family norms.
Judaism: Positive
Confidence: Medium
The documentary portrays Larry Herbert's Jewish identity with nuance, emphasizing the emotional weight of the Holocaust on his life and family. A German associate's financial support serves as an act of atonement, highlighting reconciliation and sympathy for Jewish historical experiences.
LGBTQ: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The documentary offers no portrayal of LGBTQ+ characters or themes, centering instead on the subject's professional legacy in color standardization and personal reflections on family and heritage.
Trans: N/A
Confidence: Medium
The documentary features no transsexual characters or themes, resulting in no portrayal to evaluate.
Female Combat: N/R
The movie does not contain any action or adventure elements.
Gender Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The documentary profiles the life and inventions of Lawrence Herbert, the male inventor of the Pantone system, through interviews and archival footage without any gender alterations to historical figures or characters.
Race Swap: No
Confidence: Low
The King of Color is a documentary in which Lawrence Herbert appears as himself, alongside family interviews and archival footage, without any dramatized roles or adaptations that involve racial recasting of characters.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
7.2
7.0
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