The early 2000s digital-meets-film look with high saturation, cool tones, and that unmistakable millennium-era quality
The Y2K aesthetic recreates the visual style of late 1990s and early 2000s photography — cool-toned, slightly oversaturated, with moderate film grain and flash-heavy lighting that defined the millennium era.
90s grunge is darker, more muted, and grittier with heavy grain. Y2K is brighter, more colorful, and energetic with moderate grain and cool blue-cyan tones reflecting the optimism of the early 2000s.
Cool blues, cyans, magentas, and electric purples dominate the Y2K palette, along with metallic silver tones and bright flash-lit skin tones.
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