Every team colour palette

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.

National Football League colour guide →

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.

National Basketball Association colour guide →

Major League Baseball carries the longest unbroken visual traditions in North American sport, and several clubs use colours that have barely shifted in a century. That continuity makes the exact value matter: a near-miss on a heritage colour reads as wrong in a way a newer brand would not.

Major League Baseball colour guide →

National Hockey League teams call the jersey a sweater, a holdover from the knitted garments of the league's first decades. Colour matters differently here because the sweater is seen against white ice, which raises the contrast of every dark palette and flattens the pale ones.

National Hockey League colour guide →