National Basketball Association · Eastern Conference · Central Division

Bulls colors

The Chicago Bulls play in Chicago, Illinois, and use 2 registered colours: Bulls Red and Black. 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.

5.55:1

Bulls Red

primary

Hex#CE1141

Red green blue206, 17, 65

Hue saturation lightness345, 85%, 44%

Cyan magenta yellow black0, 92, 68, 19

21.00:1

Black

secondary

Hex#000000

Red green blue0, 0, 0

Hue saturation lightness0, 0%, 0%

Cyan magenta yellow black0, 0, 0, 100

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.

Bulls Red on Black

3.78:1 Large text only

Black on Bulls Red

3.78:1 Large text only

Bulls Red on White

5.55:1 AA

Black on White

21.00:1 AAA

Strongest and weakest combination

The highest-contrast pairing available from this palette is Black on White at 21.00:1 — use it for anything carrying text.

The weakest is Bulls Red on Black at 3.78:1, which is usable only for large display type.

Copy-ready values

:root {
  /* Chicago Bulls */
  --bulls-bulls-red: #CE1141;
  --bulls-black: #000000;
}

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About the Chicago Bulls palette

The Chicago Bulls were founded in 1966 and compete in the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association. Their primary colour, Bulls Red #CE1141, is a mid-tone, saturated orange-red.

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.

Chicago is also home to Chicago Bears, which means local broadcast and print work often has to carry more than one of these palettes.