For example, the orange and pink people in many of the chase scenes in Mad Max: Fury Road stand out against the complementary sky-blue background. [Image: Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.] ...

What’s more, once you get this down you aren’t stuck going for orange and teal, you can totally try out some other color combinations like pink and cyan, or any other combination you can think of.

The predilection for orange and teal extends beyond the content of films to their marketing materials in Movie Poster Hues 1914-2012, an an interactive infographic by Vijay Pandurangan that ...