Cross-reference
Which garment colors match across blanks
Put one design on a Bella+Canvas tee and a Gildan sweatshirt and you have to choose a color twice, from two catalogues that share almost no vocabulary. Across the four blanks here there are 271 color names and exactly four of them — Black, Navy, Red and White — appear on all four. By name the ranges look unrelated.
By appearance they are not. Gildan’s Sport Grey and Bella’s Athletic Heather are the same grey three units apart. This is the cross-reference, built from the sampled swatches rather than the names.
- 76
- matching pairs
- 325
- colorways compared
- 4
- names shared by all
The pairs
Matches, closest first
Each color of the shorter range is matched to its nearest neighbour in the longer one. Pairs within 7 units are marked near-identical; everything listed is within 14, which is roughly where two swatches stop being distinguishable at listing-thumbnail size.
Comfort Colors 1717 → Bella+Canvas 3001 — 23 matches
- Near-identical
- Hydrangea
- #B4D0E6
- Heather Baby Blue
- #B2CDE7
- Near-identical
- Chambray
- #D9EDF5
- Heather Prism Ice Blue
- #D8EAEF
- Very close
- Pepper
- #5F605B
- Heather Military Green
- #5C5D55
- Very close
- Midnight
- #3F485B
- Heather Navy
- #3D415A
- Very close
- Neon Pink
- #F469A1
- Heather Charity Pink
- #F670A0
- Very close
- Yam
- #C9814F
- Toast
- #CA8448
- Very close
- Denim
- #4E5064
- Vintage Navy
- #4E5864
- Very close
- Banana
- #FFECB9
- Heather French Vanilla
- #F7EDBB
- Very close
- Graphite
- #373231
- Dark Heather Gray
- #383639
- Very close
- Navy
- #263040
- Navy
- #232B39
- Very close
- Royal Caribe
- #5D8AC7
- Columbia Blue
- #5D82CC
- Very close
- Bay
- #C3CFC1
- Heather Silver
- #C9C8C4
- Very close
- Grey
- #7A7F79
- Deep Heather
- #757776
- Very close
- Blossom
- #F8D1E2
- Heather Bubble Gum
- #FCC8E1
- Very close
- Blue Spruce
- #536758
- Pine
- #5C6D5B
- Very close
- Cumin
- #B06C62
- Clay
- #BA6A5D
- Very close
- Bright Salmon
- #FF796C
- Coral
- #FA836F
- Very close
- Hemp
- #676A4A
- Heather Olive
- #716A50
- Very close
- Neon Red Orange
- #FA7771
- Coral
- #FA836F
- Very close
- Terracotta
- #DB8C76
- Terracotta
- #DE977B
- Very close
- Chalky Mint
- #A7D9D4
- Heather Mint
- #A2E5D3
- Very close
- Burnt Orange
- #E27C4B
- Heather Orange
- #EC7B54
- Very close
- Vineyard
- #65403B
- Heather Brown
- #664C42
Gildan 64000 → Bella+Canvas 3001 — 17 matches
- Near-identical
- Dark Chocolate
- #301E1E
- Brown
- #30221F
- Near-identical
- Ice Grey
- #DBD5D7
- Ash
- #D9D9D9
- Very close
- Carolina Blue
- #7BABE3
- Heather Carolina Blue
- #80ABDE
- Very close
- Natural
- #EADED4
- Heather Prism Natural
- #E3DFD2
- Very close
- Sand
- #E4D2C4
- Heather Dust
- #DDD5C4
- Very close
- Charcoal
- #5C5B5D
- Heather Military Green
- #5C5D55
- Very close
- Military Green
- #5A5E46
- Army
- #5A5446
- Very close
- Graphite Heather
- #868687
- Heather Storm
- #827C88
- Very close
- Heather Royal
- #698CC5
- Heather Columbia Blue
- #6A91CF
- Very close
- Antique Sapphire
- #138CBB
- Electric Blue
- #1B8CB3
- Very close
- Sage
- #ADB7A9
- Heather Sage
- #A6B3A1
- Very close
- Light Pink
- #F5D4E2
- Lilac
- #F0DBEA
- Very close
- White
- #F2F2F2
- Vintage White
- #EFECE8
- Very close
- Dark Heather
- #4E515A
- Vintage Navy
- #4E5864
- Very close
- Light Blue
- #D2E5F9
- Heather Prism Ice Blue
- #D8EAEF
- Very close
- Navy
- #1A2541
- Navy
- #232B39
- Very close
- Black
- #1D1C1E
- Heather Black
- #252525
Gildan 18000 → Bella+Canvas 3001 — 13 matches
- Near-identical
- Military Green
- #606455
- Military Green
- #616254
- Near-identical
- Sport Grey
- #AEADB3
- Athletic Heather
- #ACAFB4
- Near-identical
- Sand
- #E3D9CD
- Dust
- #E5DBC9
- Near-identical
- White
- #EAEAEA
- Vintage White
- #EFECE8
- Near-identical
- Ash
- #D5D5D5
- Ash
- #D9D9D9
- Near-identical
- Dark Heather
- #464648
- Asphalt
- #424244
- Very close
- Light Pink
- #EECCD7
- Soft Pink
- #E6D1DA
- Very close
- Heather Sport Dark Navy
- #5E6276
- Slate
- #5C6C79
- Very close
- Dark Chocolate
- #3A2923
- Oxblood Black
- #35212A
- Very close
- Forest Green
- #204137
- Forest
- #19462F
- Very close
- Graphite Heather
- #949494
- Sage
- #92A195
- Very close
- Irish Green
- #05A66A
- Heather Kelly
- #0DA475
- Very close
- Light Blue
- #A3BFD5
- Heather Ice
- #ABC8CE
Gildan 64000 → Comfort Colors 1717 — 9 matches
- Near-identical
- Light Pink
- #F5D4E2
- Blossom
- #F8D1E2
- Near-identical
- Indigo Blue
- #6578A1
- Mystic Blue
- #647CA3
- Near-identical
- Charcoal
- #5C5B5D
- Pepper
- #5F605B
- Very close
- Dark Heather
- #4E515A
- Denim
- #4E5064
- Very close
- Light Blue
- #D2E5F9
- Chambray
- #D9EDF5
- Very close
- Heather Royal
- #698CC5
- Royal Caribe
- #5D8AC7
- Very close
- Navy
- #1A2541
- True Navy
- #183047
- Very close
- Graphite Heather
- #868687
- Granite
- #8A8E90
- Very close
- Heather Maroon
- #7F4C64
- Berry
- #775568
Gildan 18000 → Gildan 64000 — 9 matches
- Near-identical
- Navy
- #192241
- Navy
- #1A2541
- Near-identical
- Ash
- #D5D5D5
- Ice Grey
- #DBD5D7
- Near-identical
- Heather Sport Dark Maroon
- #825161
- Heather Maroon
- #7F4C64
- Very close
- Sapphire
- #1284C0
- Antique Sapphire
- #138CBB
- Very close
- Sand
- #E3D9CD
- Natural
- #EADED4
- Very close
- Black
- #161616
- Black
- #1D1C1E
- Very close
- Maroon
- #6A1436
- Maroon
- #650F2C
- Very close
- Military Green
- #606455
- Charcoal
- #5C5B5D
- Very close
- White
- #EAEAEA
- White
- #F2F2F2
Gildan 18000 → Comfort Colors 1717 — 5 matches
- Very close
- Military Green
- #606455
- Pepper
- #5F605B
- Very close
- Cardinal Red
- #9F0F2A
- Red
- #A80D27
- Very close
- Graphite Heather
- #949494
- Granite
- #8A8E90
- Very close
- Heather Sport Dark Maroon
- #825161
- Berry
- #775568
- Very close
- Heather Sport Dark Navy
- #5E6276
- Grape
- #645C81
FAQ
About these matches
- How were these matches worked out?
- Every swatch on this site is sampled from the photograph the generator renders, so each color is a real measured value rather than a name. Matching is straight distance between those values: a pair is listed here when it falls within 14 units, and marked near-identical under 7. Nothing is matched by name, which is the whole point — the names disagree far more than the colors do.
- Does a match mean the two garments are the same color?
- It means they photograph the same, which is what a listing shows. Different mills, different fabrics and different dye processes are involved, so a customer holding both in daylight may see a difference your thumbnail does not. Treat it as a guide to building a consistent set of listings, not as a guarantee from the manufacturers.
- Why do the names differ so much when the colors do not?
- Color names are marketing, not measurement, and every mill invents its own. Bella+Canvas calls its standard heather grey Athletic Heather and Gildan calls the same shade Sport Grey. There is no shared vocabulary to look them up in, which is why a cross-reference has to be built from the swatches.
- Which pairing is most useful in practice?
- Usually a tee and a sweatshirt from the same mill, because they are stocked from overlapping dye ranges. Across mills the overlap is thinner and concentrated in the neutrals — the greys, whites, navies and blacks that most shops list first anyway.
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