I was aware of Finally, proof that all movie trailers use the same color palette.
Now I know that movie posters differ there palettes according to the genre of movie.
Thanks Lars Fosdal – Google+. for re-sharing this: How do you search (Google) movies?
It got me doing some searching myself, and the colour distribution has been researched before too:
- The Evolution of Movie Poster Colors, Visualized.
- Colours in movie posters since 1914 « Vijay Pandurangan’s blog.
- Colour distribution of movie posters by year from 1914 to 2011.
Back to the shared post, as it adds genre to the colours:
Trick: “Movie posters” by color on Google Images
- Type “movie posters”
- Click images > Search tools > Color
[Movies by Colors]
- Red: Likely Action
- Orange: Likely Drama, Western and / or Adventure
- Yellow: Likely Comedy Read the rest of this entry »





