National Basketball Association · Western Conference · Pacific Division

Warriors colors

The Golden State Warriors play in San Francisco, California, and use 2 registered colours: Warriors Blue and Golden Yellow. 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.

9.55:1

Warriors Blue

primary

Hex#1D428A

Red green blue29, 66, 138

Hue saturation lightness220, 65%, 33%

Cyan magenta yellow black79, 52, 0, 46

1.56:1

Golden Yellow

secondary

Hex#FFC72C

Red green blue255, 199, 44

Hue saturation lightness44, 100%, 59%

Cyan magenta yellow black0, 22, 83, 0

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.

Warriors Blue on Golden Yellow

6.12:1 AA

Golden Yellow on Warriors Blue

6.12:1 AA

Warriors Blue on White

9.55:1 AAA

Golden Yellow on White

1.56:1 Fails

Strongest and weakest combination

The highest-contrast pairing available from this palette is Warriors Blue on White at 9.55:1 — use it for anything carrying text.

The weakest is Golden Yellow on White at 1.56:1, which is not usable for text at any size.

Copy-ready values

:root {
  /* Golden State Warriors */
  --warriors-warriors-blue: #1D428A;
  --warriors-golden-yellow: #FFC72C;
}

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About the Golden State Warriors palette

The Golden State Warriors were founded in 1946 and compete in the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association. Their primary colour, Warriors Blue #1D428A, is a dark, muted indigo.

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.

Within the Pacific Division the Warriors face Los Angeles Lakers. Those are the matchups where two palettes appear in one frame, so they are the pairings most worth checking for a clash.

San Francisco is also home to San Francisco 49ers, which means local broadcast and print work often has to carry more than one of these palettes.