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* Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has orange clouds, but a dark blue atmosphere.
* Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, has orange clouds, but a dark blue atmosphere.
* Sunsets on the blue-colored Earth are colored orange, but sunsets on the orangey-red Mars are colored blue.
* Sunsets on the blue-colored Earth are colored orange, but sunsets on the orangey-red Mars are colored blue.
* The Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders of the NHL both have blue and orange colour schemes for their jerseys.
* Sports teams with blue and orange colour schemes for their jerseys:
** The Edmonton Oilers and New York Islanders of the NHL
** The Denver Broncos and the Chicago Bears of the NFL.
* While not exactly orange, the flag of Sweden uses the blue and yellow from the Natural Color System, which creates pairs of complimentary colors that do the same thing as this trope.
* While not exactly orange, the flag of Sweden uses the blue and yellow from the Natural Color System, which creates pairs of complimentary colors that do the same thing as this trope.
* In a variant one step up the spectrum, the red/green palette commonly associated with Christmas also uses contrasting colors that "pop".
* In a variant one step up the spectrum, the red/green palette commonly associated with Christmas also uses contrasting colors that "pop".
* The Denver Broncos football team's colours are orange and blue.
** So are the Chicago Bears.
* The [http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_a_large.jpg 1970s] and [http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_b_large.jpg 1980s] logos for [[ITV]] company LWT had blue and orange stripes.
* The [http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_a_large.jpg 1970s] and [http://hub.tv-ark.org.uk/images/endboards/images/lwt_b_large.jpg 1980s] logos for [[ITV]] company LWT had blue and orange stripes.
* The NTSC analog television system's [[wikipedia:YIQ|YIQ color space]] has the orange and blue contrast along the in-phase (I) axis and the green and purple contrast along the quadrature (Q) axis. More bandwidth is allocated to I than to Q because the eye is more sensitive to orange and blue contrast.
* The NTSC analog television system's [[wikipedia:YIQ|YIQ color space]] has the orange and blue contrast along the in-phase (I) axis and the green and purple contrast along the quadrature (Q) axis. More bandwidth is allocated to I than to Q because the eye is more sensitive to orange and blue contrast.