Resource AFL Colours Guide

[demon_spud]

The guernsey. The shorts vary a little in their shade don't they? I have a pair made by Burley Sekem.

The Manufacturer for shorts and guernsey maybe different.
Might come under the same brand but they use another machine or even manufacturer to produce and the colours of these machines aren't calibrated together properly.

 

[Freo Quokkas]

I'm interested in learning what the Pantone and any other colour formulas such as RGB are for Fremantle's dark, deep purple. I noticed you put Pantone 275 on your club colours graphic. But I've read others claim that shade of purple is Pantone 2695 or 2695C. According to the AFL Brand Book PDF from bomberblitz.com the RGB for Freo's dark purple is: R: 68, B: 35, G: 94

Are either the Pantone or RGB formulas suitable and accurate for dye sublimation of sports and fabric apparel? As well as matching the colour correctly?

So this is what I've been playing with.
I've been looking for a template to show the colours, and found one through one of the paint companys in the US.
I'm only 1/3 done in putting in the actual colours, but here's where I am at so far.
Anything anyone can think of that you would like to see added to this?

 

[demon_spud]

I'm interested in learning what the Pantone and any other colour formulas such as RGB are for Fremantle's dark, deep purple. I noticed you put Pantone 275 on your club colours graphic. But I've read others claim that shade of purple is Pantone 2695 or 2695C. According to the AFL Brand Book PDF from bomberblitz.com the RGB for Freo's dark purple is: R: 68, B: 35, G: 94

Are either the Pantone or RGB formulas suitable and accurate for dye sublimation of sports and fabric apparel? As well as matching the colour correctly?

You can try the official Pantone colours. Many sublimation machines aren't calibrated correctly, so while you use reference number the machine can spit out wrong shades.

You can grab yourself a book of pantone swatches and try and reference a real shirt with this. Or your sublimation machine can turn out some colours for you to reference to. There is no 100% sure system.

BLK can't get their black correct, and then guernseys supplied to Country Vic teams also can't get their colours correct.

 

[Mero]

At great expense to the management I've made this spreadsheet
https://1drv.ms/x/s!Ak4FHnTjWwzmgpYwpRgBUNGsGgBWQw

The values you enter in Cols A, B & C are the RGB values
This then returns a colour in Col D, which is the RGB of the three values.

If you're intend on using it, please download it and save it as your own file, don't save your changes in my OneDrive.

You can change the RGB values in the Columns a B & C to get new colours
(You might need a minimum of Excel 2007 to make it work)

 

[SJ]

I started this thread after reading the Official 2011 Jumpers thread where someone commented on one of the colours being too Light.

I have gone through Illustrator converting Pantone chips to RGB colours, for use in Paint and Photoshop.
This is not an exact science but it's pretty close.
Certainly closer than guessing from watching on TV or looking through AFL photos.
What I have here is the team, and the RGB values of each colour.
So, Adelaide for example uses three colours, Blue is RGB value 5,23,63
If you can't figure of what that means, PM me. Where there is a "-" that means it moves on to the second colour. Adelaide's Yellow is RGB 242,0,23 and their Red is 255,214,0. And the same for every club.
You will notice that colours are often repeated, that's because plenty of teams share exact shades of certain colours.
Adelaide's Red is exactly the same as Melbourne, Sydney and the Bulldogs, but Essendon and Freo use a different Red, while StKilda and Gold Coast are different again. (PMS 185, 186 & 485)
These are based on the official AFL colours.
Possibly the jumpers look different in certain lights, namely cloudy day, birhgt sunlight and artificial stadium lights.
However, this is what they should be made up as, according to the AFL Licensing Dept.

Adel 5 , 23 , 63 - 242 , 0 , 23 - 255 , 214 , 0
Bris 155 , 0 , 51 - 14 , 43 , 141 - 254 , 186 , 53
Carl 2 , 26 , 49 - 255 , 255 , 255
Coll 0 , 0 , 0 - 255 , 255 , 255
Ess 0 , 0 , 0 - 255 , 17 , 0
Freo 29 , 17 , 96 - 255 , 255 , 255
Gee 5 , 23 , 63 - 255 , 255 , 255
GC 252 , 25 , 33 255 , 232 , 49 9 , 90 , 165 255 , 255 , 255
GWS 247,143,30 - 84.83,74
Haw 54 , 21 , 0 - 255 , 179 , 0

Melb 2 , 26 , 49 - 204 , 12 , 0
HEX: Cetacean Blue: #07092D - Fire Engine Red: #CD1A2E

N.Melb 14 , 43 , 141 - 255 , 255 , 255
Port 0 , 0 , 0 - 255 , 255 , 255 - 0 , 142 , 143
Rich 0 , 0 , 0 - 255 , 214 , 0
Stk 0 , 0 , 0 - 255 , 255 , 255 - 252 , 25 , 33
Syd 242 , 0 , 23 - 255 , 255 , 255
WCE 5 , 23 , 63 - 255 , 194 , 17 - 255 , 255 , 255
Foots 13 , 54 , 146 - 255 , 255 , 255 - 242 , 0 , 23


AFL Blue: #00529B - 0, 82, 155
AFL Red: #E21E31 - 226 , 30 , 49

AFLW Orange: #ea6953 - 234 , 105 , 83

Are these up to date?

 

[Mero]

Are these up to date?

I'll have a look at these.
Some have changed due to the manufacturers.
Back then it was based on the understanding that teams wore the same colours as their official logo.
This is not the case.
Hawthorn, for example, wear a different Brown this year to what they wore in the adidas and Puma years.