Baseball Team Color Codes

Baseball’s 30 teams run on a tighter color set than any other major league. When it comes to baseball team color codes, navy blue, red and white do almost all of the work, a nod to the sport’s long patriotic streak. This guide lists every team’s palette with exact HEX, RGB and Pantone codes, sorted by league and division, and links out to each team’s full breakdown.

Every hex value below was pulled from official MLB vector logos and team brand materials for the 2025 season and cross-checked against Pantone references. Codes shift when a team rebrands, so treat this as a working reference and re-check before any print run where an exact match matters.

What Are the Official Color Codes for All 30 MLB Teams?

All 30 MLB teams carry an official color palette, and most lean on two or three primary colors drawn from navy blue, red and white. The table below shows each team’s primary color with its HEX code. Full RGB, CMYK and Pantone values sit further down under each division.

A quick note on reliability: MLB doesn’t publish one master brand book for the public, so these values come from the actual logo vector files plus Pantone cross-checks. Where a team hasn’t published an exact CMYK build, converting from the Pantone chip is the safe route.

How Are MLB Team Colors Grouped by League and Division?

MLB splits its 30 teams into two leagues, the American League and the National League, each holding three divisions. Grouping colors this way matches how standings and rivalries actually line up. Below, every team gets its full primary code set, with a link to its dedicated color page.

American League

AL East

Baltimore Orioles. Orange #DF4601 (RGB 223,70,1, PMS 1655 C), Black #000000, White. The orange-and-black comes straight from the Baltimore oriole, the state bird of Maryland.

Boston Red Sox. Red #BD3039 (RGB 189,48,57, PMS 186 C), Navy #0C2340 (PMS 289 C), White. The red-and-navy has anchored the brand since 1908 and mirrors the Boston city flag.

New York Yankees. Uniform Navy #0C2340 (RGB 12,35,64, PMS 289 C), Gray #C4CED3 (Cool Gray 7 C), Midnight blue. The pinstripe navy-and-gray has stayed unchanged since 1949, the most conservative palette in the sport.

Tampa Bay Rays. Navy #092C5C (RGB 9,44,92, PMS 289 C), Columbia Blue #8FBCE6 (PMS 283 C), Yellow #F5D130. The light-blue burst on the sunburst logo is one of the few in baseball nobody else touches.

Toronto Blue Jays. Royal Blue #134A8E (RGB 19,74,142, PMS 7686 C), Navy #1D2D5C, Red #E8291C. The lone Canadian club leans hard into blue, with a red maple-leaf nod in the logo.

AL Central

Chicago White Sox. Black #27251F (RGB 39,37,31, PMS Black C), Silver #C4CED4 (PMS 429 C), White. The black-and-silver has become one of the most licensed looks in sports, well beyond the ballpark.

Cleveland Guardians. Navy Blue #00385D (RGB 0,56,93, PMS 289 C), Red #E50022 (PMS 186 C), White. The 2021 name change from Indians kept the navy-and-red intact, so the color code carried straight over.

Detroit Tigers. Navy #0C2340 (RGB 12,35,64, PMS 289 C), Orange #FA4616 (PMS 172 C), White. The Olde English D runs in navy, with orange as the lone accent, a pairing steady for over a century.

Kansas City Royals. Royal Blue #004687 (RGB 0,70,135, PMS 285 C), Gold #BD9B60 (PMS 465 C), White. The blue-and-gold has stayed close to its 1969 debut, right down to the crown on the cap.

Minnesota Twins. Navy #002B5C (RGB 0,43,92, PMS 289 C), Scarlet Red #D31145 (PMS 199 C), Gold accents. The navy-and-red honors the Twin Cities, with a Minnie-and-Paul handshake in the logo.

AL West

Houston Astros. Navy #002D62 (RGB 0,45,98, PMS 289 C), Orange #EB6E1F (PMS 165 C), White. The current navy-and-orange revived the classic tequila-sunrise era in a cleaner form after the 2013 rebrand.

Los Angeles Angels. Angels Red #BA0021 (RGB 186,0,33, PMS 186 C), Navy #003263 (PMS 289 C), Silver. The red-and-navy has held through several name changes, from California to Anaheim to Los Angeles.

Athletics. Green #003831 (RGB 0,56,49, PMS 3435 C), Gold #EFB21E (PMS 124 C), White. The green-and-gold has traveled from Philadelphia to Kansas City to Oakland and now Sacramento, unchanged in spirit.

Seattle Mariners. Navy #0C2C56 (RGB 12,44,86, PMS 289 C), Northwest Green #005C5C (PMS 3292 C), Silver. The teal-green accent, added in 1993, still reads as one of the freshest secondary colors in the league.

Texas Rangers. Rangers Blue #003278 (RGB 0,50,120, PMS 288 C), Red #C0111F (PMS 200 C), Dark gray. The blue-and-red pulls straight from the Texas state flag, which the logo echoes.

National League

NL East

Atlanta Braves. Navy Blue #13274F (RGB 19,39,79, PMS 289 C), Scarlet Red #CE1141 (PMS 200 C), White. The navy-and-red has traveled from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta while keeping the tomahawk script.

Miami Marlins. Miami Blue #00A3E0 (RGB 0,163,224, PMS 2925 C), Caliente Red #EF3340 (PMS 032 C), Black. The 2019 rebrand traded orange for a bright Miami blue that pops against the black.

New York Mets. Mets Blue #002D72 (RGB 0,45,114, PMS 287 C), Orange #FF5910 (PMS 165 C), White. The blue-and-orange combines Dodgers blue and Giants orange, a tribute to the two New York teams the Mets replaced.

Philadelphia Phillies. Phillies Red #E81828 (RGB 232,24,40, PMS 186 C), Blue #002D72 (PMS 287 C), White. The red-and-blue has been the constant since 1970, with the alternate powder-blue throwbacks pulling big crowds.

Washington Nationals. Nationals Red #AB0003 (RGB 171,0,3, PMS 186 C), Navy #14225A (PMS 289 C), White. The red-and-navy leans into the D.C. patriotic palette, with the curly W anchoring the cap.

NL Central

Chicago Cubs. Cubbie Blue #0E3386 (RGB 14,51,134, PMS 288 C), Red #CC3433 (PMS 200 C), White. The blue-and-red inside the classic C has run essentially unchanged for over a century at Wrigley.

Cincinnati Reds. Reds Red #C6011F (RGB 198,1,31, PMS 186 C), Black #000000, White. Baseball’s oldest franchise leans on red hard, fitting for a team literally named for the color.

Milwaukee Brewers. Navy Blue #12284B (RGB 18,40,75, PMS 289 C), Gold #FFC52F (PMS 1235 C), White. The 2020 return of the classic ball-in-glove logo brought back the navy-and-gold in full.

Pittsburgh Pirates. Black #27251F (RGB 39,37,31, PMS Black C), Gold #FDB827 (PMS 1235 C), White. The black-and-gold matches the Steelers and Penguins, a citywide color code Pittsburgh has owned for decades.

St. Louis Cardinals. Cardinal Red #C41E3A (RGB 196,30,58, PMS 200 C), Navy #0C2340 (PMS 289 C), Yellow accents. The red has been Cardinal since 1900, named for the bird, one of baseball’s most recognizable palettes.

NL West

Arizona Diamondbacks. Sedona Red #A71930 (RGB 167,30,49, PMS 187 C), Sonoran Sand #E3D4AD (PMS 7501 C), Black and teal. The desert-toned palette pays tribute to the Sedona canyons and the Sonoran Desert.

Colorado Rockies. Rockies Purple #33006F (RGB 51,0,111, PMS 268 C), Silver #C4CED4 (PMS 429 C), Black. Purple as a lead color is close to unique in baseball, and the Rockies own it outright.

Los Angeles Dodgers. Dodger Blue #005A9C (RGB 0,90,156, PMS 294 C), Red #EF3E42 (PMS 185 C), Silver. The back-to-back 2024 and 2025 World Series champions keep the same bright blue script they’ve run since the 1950s.

San Diego Padres. Padres Brown #2F241D (RGB 47,36,29, PMS 4625 C), Gold #FFC425 (PMS 1235 C), White. The brown-and-gold returned in 2020, and the Padres are the only MLB team leading with brown.

San Francisco Giants. Giants Orange #FD5A1E (RGB 253,90,30, PMS 165 C), Black #27251F, Gold accents. The orange-and-black is one of the most distinctive combinations in the league, tied to the city’s Halloween-adjacent identity.

What’s the Difference Between HEX, RGB, CMYK and Pantone?

These four formats describe the same color for different jobs. HEX and RGB are for screens, CMYK is for print, and Pantone guarantees an exact physical match. Pick the format that matches where the color is going to live.

• HEX is the six-digit web code, like #005A9C. Use it for websites, CSS and anything digital. It’s just RGB written in shorthand.
• RGB is red, green and blue values from 0 to 255, like rgb(0,90,156). Same use case as HEX. Handy when a tool wants the channels split out.
• CMYK is cyan, magenta, yellow and black, the four inks a printer lays down. Use this for anything going on paper, programs, flyers, posters.
• Pantone (PMS) is a standardized spot-color system where each color has a fixed recipe. This is what merch shops and pro printers use to guarantee the blue on a Dodgers cap is the same blue every single time.

Rule of thumb that saves a lot of grief: design in HEX or RGB for anything on a screen, then hand your printer the Pantone chip for anything physical. Converting HEX straight to CMYK without checking the Pantone can shift a color more than you’d expect, especially with the reds and the deep navies.

What Are the Most Common Colors in MLB?

White, blue and red dominate the league, by a wide margin. Every one of the 30 teams carries white as a base, and navy blue and red do the rest of the heavy lifting, a reflection of baseball’s traditional, patriotic roots.

Team Color Codes tallied the league and found all 30 teams use white, 21 use blue, and 17 use red in their palettes, while purple, maroon, teal and brown sit at the bottom with only a team or two each.

• White: all 30 teams
• Blue / Navy: about 21 teams
• Red: about 17 teams
• Gold / Yellow: about 10 teams
• Black: about 9 teams
• Silver / Gray: about 8 teams
• Orange: 5 teams
• Green: 2 teams (Athletics, Mariners accent)
• Purple: 1 team (Colorado)
• Brown: 1 team (San Diego)

Counts are approximate and reflect judgment calls on borderline shades. The takeaway holds regardless: if you’re designing something and want it to read as “baseball,” navy-red-white is the safe zone, and purple, brown or teal is how you stand out.

The Rarest Colors in Baseball

Brown belongs to San Diego alone. Purple is Colorado’s and Colorado’s only. Teal survives as an accent with Arizona and Seattle, and the Athletics own the only real green primary. If you want a color no other MLB team is leaning on, that short list is where to look.

Which MLB Team Colors Sell the Most Merchandise?

The Dodgers move the most gear in baseball, and their blue-and-white travels with them. Dodger blue is one of the most reproduced palettes in all of sports, boosted by back-to-back championships.

Shohei Ohtani’s Dodgers jersey was the top-selling jersey in MLB for the 2025 season, his third straight year at number one, joining Derek Jeter, Aaron Judge and Mookie Betts as the only players to ever hold the top spot three years running (MLB.com, 2025).

The Dodgers placed three players in the top four sellers in 2025, with Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and Mookie Betts all ranking, per CBS Sports. That concentration around one team’s colors moves a lot of blue.

Color recognition plays into all of it. A palette people already tie to winning moves more product, which is why Dodger blue, Yankees navy and Cardinal red stay in heavy rotation on merchandise racks.

How Do You Use MLB Team Colors in a Design Project?

Match the code format to your output, then confirm against a physical reference before anything gets printed at scale. HEX handles web and digital, CMYK covers standard printing, and Pantone locks in merchandise and apparel where an off shade gets noticed immediately.

A few things worth knowing before you build something with these. So many teams live in the navy-blue range that it helps to understand how the family behaves, and there’s solid reference material on what navy blue communicates and where its shades shift. The same goes for the way red reads across contexts, which is the second most common MLB primary and worth getting right.

For anything beyond a straight team recreation, say a fan site, a tailgate invite or a themed graphic, you’ll often want a fuller supporting scheme than just the two or three official colors. Pulling from a set of coordinated palettes is faster than building one from scratch, and it keeps your accent choices from clashing with the team’s core.

Covering other leagues too? The same code-format logic runs through the full set of NHL team color codes and the complete NBA team color codes, both built on the same HEX-RGB-CMYK-Pantone structure.

One legal note. Team names, logos and color schemes are trademarks of their respective clubs and MLB. The codes here are fine for reference, personal projects and fan work, but commercial use, merchandise, resale, official-looking branding, needs proper licensing. Always check the rights before you sell anything.

MLB Team Colors: Common Questions

How many teams are in MLB, and how many color palettes is that?

MLB has 30 teams, split evenly between the American League and the National League. Each carries its own official palette, so there are 30 distinct color schemes, though most combine two or three primary colors drawn from navy blue, red and white.

What’s the most common color in MLB?

White is the most common, appearing in all 30 teams’ palettes as a base. Blue follows in roughly 21 teams, from the Dodgers and Cubs to the Yankees and Blue Jays, and red rounds out the top three at about 17 teams.

What are the Dodgers’ official colors?

The Los Angeles Dodgers colors are Dodger Blue #005A9C (PMS 294 C), Red #EF3E42 (PMS 185 C) and Silver. The bright blue script has anchored the brand since the 1950s and carried through the 2024 and 2025 World Series titles.

Which MLB team has the most unique color scheme?

San Diego’s brown-and-gold is the most distinctive, since no other team leads with brown. Colorado’s purple and the Athletics’ green are also one-of-a-kind, giving each of those three a palette nobody else in the league shares.

Why do so many teams share the same hex codes?

Because a handful of Pantone navies and reds have become the baseball standard. PMS 289 C navy and PMS 186 C red each show up on multiple teams, which is why the Yankees, Red Sox and Cardinals can look like they’re using the same navy. They basically are.

Can I use MLB team colors for a commercial product?

Colors themselves can’t be copyrighted, but team logos, names and specific branding are trademarked. Using a team’s color codes for personal or fan work is fine. Selling merchandise that mimics official branding needs licensing from MLB and the club.

Every value above reflects the 2025 season and gets re-checked each offseason for rebrands, new alternates and relocations. Codes are provided for reference; official marks remain the property of MLB and its clubs.

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