Hex to Team
Have a color and want to know which team it belongs to? Enter any hex code and we'll rank the sports teams whose published colors are the closest perceptual match, measured by ΔE color distance.
Results are ranked by ΔE (CIE76) — the perceptual distance between your color and each team's closest published color. Lower is a nearer match.
- 1552583Los Angeles LakersPurple · NBAΔE 0.0Not perceptible
- 24F2683Minnesota VikingsPurple · NFLΔE 2.1Perceptible at a glance
- 3461D7CLSU TigersPurple · NCAAΔE 4.6Perceptible at a glance
- 45A2D81Sacramento KingsPurple · NBAΔE 6.2Perceptible at a glance
- 5522D80Clemson TigersRegalia · NCAAΔE 6.8Perceptible at a glance
- 64B2E83Washington HuskiesPurple · NCAAΔE 7.2Perceptible at a glance
- 7241773Baltimore RavensPurple · NFLΔE 12.8Clearly different
- 833006FColorado RockiesPurple · MLBΔE 14.1Clearly different
- 91D1160Charlotte HornetsPurple · NBAΔE 16.7Clearly different
- 101D1160Phoenix SunsPurple · NBAΔE 16.7Clearly different
- 11002F87St. Louis BluesBlue · NHLΔE 18.9Clearly different
- 12003087Duke Blue DevilsDuke Blue · NCAAΔE 19.2Clearly different
Frequently asked questions
- How does the closest-match ranking work?
- Your hex code is converted to the CIELAB color space, and we compute the CIE76 ΔE (Delta-E) distance to every published team color. A lower ΔE means a closer perceptual match — under about 2 is nearly indistinguishable to the human eye.
- Why do multiple teams share almost the same color?
- Sports branding leans on a fairly small set of primaries — cardinal red, navy, royal blue, forest green — so many teams land within a few ΔE of one another. That is why the results are ranked rather than a single answer.
- What counts as a good match?
- ΔE under 1 is not perceptible, 1–2 is barely perceptible, and 2–10 is perceptible at a glance but still clearly the same color family. Anything above roughly 10 is a visibly different color.