National Basketball Association · Western Conference · Pacific Division

Lakers colors

The Los Angeles Lakers play in Los Angeles, California, and use 2 registered colours: Lakers Purple and Gold. Every value below is listed in hexadecimal, red green blue, hue saturation lightness, and approximate cyan magenta yellow black, with contrast results computed from the values themselves.

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.

Colour values

2 colours

Each swatch is rendered in CSS from the numeric value, not from a logo image. The figure on each chip is its contrast against white.

10.61:1

Lakers Purple

primary

Hex#552583

Red green blue85, 37, 131

Hue saturation lightness271, 56%, 33%

Cyan magenta yellow black35, 72, 0, 49

1.73:1

Gold

secondary

Hex#FDB927

Red green blue253, 185, 39

Hue saturation lightness41, 98%, 57%

Cyan magenta yellow black0, 27, 85, 1

Which pairings carry text

4 pairings measured

Computed with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines relative luminance formula. These decide whether a player name, a score or body copy stays readable.

Lakers Purple on Gold

6.14:1 AA

Gold on Lakers Purple

6.14:1 AA

Lakers Purple on White

10.61:1 AAA

Gold on White

1.73:1 Fails

Strongest and weakest combination

The highest-contrast pairing available from this palette is Lakers Purple on White at 10.61:1 — use it for anything carrying text.

The weakest is Gold on White at 1.73:1, which is not usable for text at any size.

Copy-ready values

:root {
  /* Los Angeles Lakers */
  --lakers-lakers-purple: #552583;
  --lakers-gold: #FDB927;
}

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About the Los Angeles Lakers palette

The Los Angeles Lakers were founded in 1947 and compete in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association. Their primary colour, Lakers Purple #552583, is a dark, muted purple.

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.

Within the Pacific Division the Lakers face Golden State Warriors. Those are the matchups where two palettes appear in one frame, so they are the pairings most worth checking for a clash.

Los Angeles is also home to Los Angeles Chargers, Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Dodgers, which means local broadcast and print work often has to carry more than one of these palettes.