Colour comparison

Bears vs Buccaneers colors

Chicago Bears and Tampa Bay Buccaneers and their primary colours sit 3.34:1 apart in lightness with a perceptual difference of 103.9. 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.

Bears vs Buccaneers

Clear
Colour difference
ΔE 103.9
Lightness contrast
3.34:1

The same two colours in greyscale — what a monochrome feed, and a viewer with colour vision deficiency, has to work with.

The two palettes

Chicago Bears National Football League
Navy Blue #0B162A
Orange #C83803

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers National Football League
Buccaneer Red #D50A0A
Pewter #34302B
Bay Orange #FF7900

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Every cross-team pairing

6 measured
Contrast for every Bears colour against every Buccaneers colour
Bears colour #D50A0A #34302B #FF7900
#0B162A 3.34:1 Large text only 1.38:1 Fails 6.87:1 AA
#C83803 1.04:1 Fails 2.51:1 Fails 1.99:1 Fails
Bears on Buccaneers
Strongest pairing

Navy Blue on Bay Orange is the highest-contrast combination across the two palettes. Use it for anything carrying text.

6.87:1 AA
Bears on Buccaneers
Weakest pairing

Orange on Buccaneer Red is the lowest-contrast combination, and the one a designer reaches for by accident when both teams want their signature colour.

1.04:1 Fails

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 Bears and Buccaneers the two figures are ΔE 103.9 and 3.34:1, which together give a verdict of clear. Both measurements are comfortable, so these two read as distinct teams in every medium.

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.

Design with either palette

Take Bears or Buccaneers colours into the design studio, add your own artwork, and check the result for print problems before committing to a run.

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