With regard to clothing, different manufacturers have different interpretations of standard colours. For example, “Navy Blue” can vary from merely a darkish blue to almost black. There is also a tendency to give colours fancy names. For example, a light grey can appear as “Light Oxford” or “Heather” (when was heather ever grey?).

Some tips:

• Where different garments need to be of the same colour -- e.g. polo shirts and sweat shirts -- we’ll try to find what’s needed from the same manufacturer. However, where the garments have to come from different manufacturers -- e.g. polo shirt vs. jacket vs. cap -- this isn’t possible.
   
• Don’t make the garment colours very specific -- e.g. some particularly subtle shade of turquoise. Even if we do find a garment to match, there is no guarantee that the manufacturer won’t change the colour between different batches, or indeed drop it from the range altogether.
   
• Keep fancy colours for the logo. There are over 400 thread colours available (for the thread that we use), so there’s plenty of choice.
   
• Be aware of the contrast between logo colours and garment colours.
• Bright colours look good against dark materials.
• Don’t just go for black-on-white or white-on-black.
• Middling colours work on both light and dark backgrounds
  (e.g. printed on white paper, embroidered on a black polo shirt).
   
• Two-colour logos work well.
   
• The only sure way to match a colour is against a physical sample that you send us.

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