The History Of Movie Posters Shows Our Changing Color Bias Over Time

Analyzing trends in movie poster design shows us a lot more than we think.

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Software engineer Vijay Pandurangan proved his theory that movie posters have become more dark and more blue over the years. Using color data from 35,000 movie posters created from 1914 until now, his final image above shows that he's right.

View the interactive version on his website that provides statistics for each year. 

[TheVerge]

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