Color Scheme Inspiration – Vintage Horror Movie Posters
It came from the color palette! Lame movie references aside, here are some color schemes for all the vintage movie buffs in need of inspiration and better acting.
Grab a bowl of popcorn, lower your expectations and take a look at these vintage horror schemes.
Photos are all found via Flickr (follow image links for author info) and a post on Well Medicated of 100 Illustrated Horror Film posters. Color schemes are available to download through COLOURlovers.
Show us Yours!
Thinking of any particularly colorful horror movies? Why not make a color scheme out of it with Kuler or Colourlovers? Once you’re done come back and share it with the rest of us!
Discussion
March 6th, 2009 at 1:30 PM
Dest. Inner Space is my favorite! I love these color scheme inspirations!
March 6th, 2009 at 5:24 PM
Awesome. I’ve got to use some of these.
March 6th, 2009 at 5:51 PM
This is a great idea. I wonder though, since these are vintage posters, if they’ve lost their original luster. If colors have faded over time (even slightly), the extracted color schemes only reflect the current state of the poster. Or is that the idea, to take into account the charm of faded out vintage posters?
March 9th, 2009 at 3:55 PM
haha, they are great. It seems that the faded, comic book look was in for the theme of scary movies. That look is scary in itself so I guess it worked. Just goes to show how popular trends spawn from one to the other and how things progress so much over time. Thanks
March 9th, 2009 at 4:07 PM
@Logo Design Guru
I agree. In going with what Daniel was saying, I think the overall lack of luster is part of the sell.
While I was flipping through some flickr photos for this post, I did find some posters that kept their original colors. They didn’t appeal to me as much, because the trends were…. ehhhhh.
March 26th, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Great posters. I own a few like the creature and just purchased the Dracula poster at auction; it belonged to actor Nicolas Cage! Keep up the good posts, its nice to see someone blogging about vintage movie posters.
Best
Ralph DeLuca
Madison, NJ
March 26th, 2009 at 5:11 PM
I love the way you make colour schemes! I’m in the middle of rounding up some vintage style posters for my blog at the moment – was influenced to do so because I’m looking at posters as part of my art coursework atm!
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September 18th, 2009 at 11:33 AM
Beautiufl colour schemes thank you! I love the old space style posters, nostalgia :)
January 27th, 2010 at 6:54 AM
Absolutely amazing posters. Love the way color schemes are used.
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