Why Is Every Movie Poster Orange and Blue?

Peter Pan

orange and blue movie posters
IMAGE BY: Original Film Art/RKO Radio Pictures

In 2012, Vijay Pandurangan, a software engineer, took it upon himself to analyze color data from 35,000 movie posters, from 1941 until that time. His conclusion? A definite trend that movie posters have systematically become more dark and more blue.

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