About Major League Baseball Team Colors
Major League Baseball is the oldest of the major North American leagues, and its visual identities show it. Many MLB color schemes trace back to the early twentieth century, when clubs adopted the red, navy, and white palettes that still read as the sport's default vocabulary. Baseball's long, daily season and its deep ties to a single city mean teams treat their colors as civic heirlooms rather than marketing assets to refresh every few years.
Because the league standardizes remarkably little about on-field appearance beyond the rulebook, each of the 30 clubs controls its own brand guidelines and publishes the primary, secondary, and accent colors used across caps, home flannels, road grays, and alternates. The palettes on this page reflect each team's current published brand colors, expressed as hex, RGB, and CMYK so they can be reproduced accurately on screen and in print.
Grouping the league by its six divisions makes the regional color stories easy to see: the AL and NL East lean on traditional East Coast reds and navies, while expansion-era clubs in the West brought in purples, teals, and desert tones that widened baseball's palette considerably.
Color Trends
MLB teams traditionally favor classic combinations like red and navy that reflect the sport's American heritage, while expansion clubs have introduced distinctive regional colors such as the Mariners' northwest green, the Rockies' purple, and the Marlins' Miami blue.
Using MLB Team Colors
- Every value is provided as hex, RGB, and CMYK for accurate digital and print reproduction
- Palettes reflect each team's current published brand colors
- Ideal for fan sites, sports design projects, and color research
- Review each team's trademark guidelines before any commercial use