Colour comparison

Warriors vs Bulls colors

Golden State Warriors and Chicago Bulls and their primary colours sit 1.72:1 apart in lightness with a perceptual difference of 89.6. Every cross-team pairing is measured below.

These values are not yet verified

The colour values on this page are illustrative placeholders used while the site is being built. Each one must be traced to the team's own published brand assets and dated before it is presented as fact — see the method page. Do not use these figures for print or production yet.

Warriors vs Bulls

Clear in colour
Colour difference
ΔE 89.6
Lightness contrast
1.72:1

The same two colours in greyscale — what a monochrome feed, and a viewer with colour vision deficiency, has to work with.

The two palettes

Golden State Warriors National Basketball Association
Warriors Blue #1D428A
Golden Yellow #FFC72C

All Warriors values →

Chicago Bulls National Basketball Association
Bulls Red #CE1141
Black #000000

All Bulls values →

Every cross-team pairing

4 measured
Contrast for every Warriors colour against every Bulls colour
Warriors colour #CE1141 #000000
#1D428A 1.72:1 Fails 2.20:1 Fails
#FFC72C 3.56:1 Large text only 13.46:1 AAA
Warriors on Bulls
Strongest pairing

Golden Yellow on Black is the highest-contrast combination across the two palettes. Use it for anything carrying text.

13.46:1 AAA
Warriors on Bulls
Weakest pairing

Warriors Blue on Bulls Red is the lowest-contrast combination, and the one a designer reaches for by accident when both teams want their signature colour.

1.72:1 Fails

What the verdict means

A colour clash takes two measurements, not one. Perceptual difference says how far apart two colours look to the eye with hue included; lightness contrast says what survives when colour is removed. Judged on lightness alone, a navy and a purple can score identically to navy against itself, which is plainly wrong. Judged on hue alone, two colours that separate clearly in colour can merge completely in a monochrome broadcast.

For Warriors and Bulls the two figures are ΔE 89.6 and 1.72:1, which together give a verdict of clear in colour. Both measurements are comfortable, so these two read as distinct teams in every medium.

National Basketball Association uniforms changed character when the league moved away from fixed home-white and away-colour rules, allowing teams to field several named uniform editions in a season. That makes a single flat team palette less useful here than in any other league, because the colours a team actually wears vary from night to night.

Design with either palette

Take Warriors or Bulls colours into the design studio, add your own artwork, and check the result for print problems before committing to a run.

Every other Warriors comparison

2 matchups

Every other Bulls comparison

2 matchups