Brand colors
Official color values for organizations that publish them, with the hex, RGB and HSL codes, every contrast pair worked out, and a link to fill your screen with any one of them. Each value is cited to the page it came from, with the date it was read.
- Colleges & universities92 universitiesInstitutions publish unusually thorough brand standards, so these are the best-sourced pages on the site.
- Technology6 companiesDeveloper-facing companies publish design systems in the open; most of the rest route brand assets through a download portal.
- Food & drink1 brandThe category where the value everyone quotes is most often the one the company replaced.
- US state flags51 statesOnly a handful of states specify their flag at all. These are the ones that do, and they do it properly.
- Military ribbons16 decorationsFlat bands of dyed silk, where the colour order is the whole design and every stripe means something.
- Country flags115 countriesMost governments specify a flag in Pantone or textile standards and never publish a hex, so these carry a lower-confidence source and say so.
How these values are sourced
Every color here was read from a page published by the organization itself, and that page is linked on the entry with the date it was read. Nothing is copied from another reference site, and nothing is filled in from memory.
Where an organization publishes a color by name only, the value stays blank and the page says so. Converting hex to CMYK is not well defined without an ICC profile and a rendering intent, and a "nearest Pantone" match is a guess wearing a number, so neither is calculated. Pantone and CMYK appear only where the organization published them itself.
RGB and HSL are computed from the hex when the page is built rather than stored alongside it, so the values on a page cannot drift apart from one another.
281 organizations are published so far, 105 of them with an official Pantone reference. The catalogue grows as sources are verified, not as names are collected.