Lakers vs Celtics colors
Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics and their primary colours sit 1.94:1 apart in lightness with a perceptual difference of 115.5. 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.
Lakers vs Celtics
Clear in colour- Colour difference
- ΔE 115.5
- Lightness contrast
- 1.94:1
The same two colours in greyscale — what a monochrome feed, and a viewer with colour vision deficiency, has to work with.
The two palettes
Every cross-team pairing
4 measured| Lakers colour | #007A33 | #BA9653 |
|---|---|---|
| #552583 | 1.94:1 Fails | 3.83:1 Large text only |
| #FDB927 | 3.17:1 Large text only | 1.60:1 Fails |
Lakers Purple on Gold is the highest-contrast combination across the two palettes. Use it for anything carrying text.
Gold on Gold is the lowest-contrast combination, and the one a designer reaches for by accident when both teams want their signature colour.
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 Lakers and Celtics the two figures are ΔE 115.5 and 1.94:1, which together give a verdict of clear in colour. Both measurements are comfortable, so these two read as distinct teams in every medium.
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.
Design with either palette
Take Lakers or Celtics colours into the design studio, add your own artwork, and check the result for print problems before committing to a run.