Colour comparison

Lions vs Packers colors

Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers meet inside the Northern Division, and their primary colours sit 2.58:1 apart in lightness with a perceptual difference of 50.4. 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.

Lions vs Packers

Clear in colour
Colour difference
ΔE 50.4
Lightness contrast
2.58:1

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

The two palettes

Detroit Lions National Football League
Honolulu Blue #0076B6
Silver #B0B7BC
Black #000000

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Green Bay Packers National Football League
Dark Green #203731
Gold #FFB612

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Every cross-team pairing

6 measured
Contrast for every Lions colour against every Packers colour
Lions colour #203731 #FFB612
#0076B6 2.58:1 Fails 2.80:1 Fails
#B0B7BC 6.26:1 AA 1.16:1 Fails
#000000 1.65:1 Fails 11.95:1 AAA
Lions on Packers
Strongest pairing

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

11.95:1 AAA
Lions on Packers
Weakest pairing

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

1.16:1 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 Lions and Packers the two figures are ΔE 50.4 and 2.58:1, which together give a verdict of clear in colour. Both measurements are comfortable, so these two read as distinct teams in every medium.

The National Football League divides its thirty-two teams between two conferences, and uniform colour is regulated more tightly here than in any other major league: a team must register its colours with the league, and opposing teams are required to wear contrasting jerseys so that broadcast audiences can tell them apart.

Design with either palette

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

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Every other Packers comparison

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