Detroit Lions

The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan, competing in the NFL's NFC North division. The franchise was founded in 1930 as the Portsmouth Spartans and renamed the Lions when it relocated to Detroit in 1934.

Country: United States

Industry: Sports

Colors: Blue Gray White

Website: Website

Category: Sports

TAGS:

Athletics, Blue, Competition, Football, Gray, North America, Recreation, Sport, Sports, United States, white

The Detroit Lions are a professional American football team based in Detroit, Michigan, and compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member of the National Football Conference (NFC) North division. The franchise was founded in 1930 as the Portsmouth Spartans, relocated to Detroit in 1934, and was renamed the Lions upon the move [1]. The club played its early Detroit seasons at the University of Detroit Stadium before moving into the Silverdome and later Ford Field [2].Logo Index preserves an archived mark associated with the Detroit Lions. Detailed documentation of the mark’s designer, original date of adoption, or redesign history is not available in the cited sources.

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Logo data

Measured from the original SVG file on 01/10/2026.

Colors

6 colors

#0076B6Blue, 60%
RGB 0, 118, 182; CMYK 100, 35, 0, 29
White text 4.9:1 (passes AA)
#FFFFFFWhite, 17%
RGB 255, 255, 255; CMYK 0, 0, 0, 0
Black text 21.0:1 (passes AA)
#B0B7BCGrey, 13%
RGB 176, 183, 188; CMYK 6, 3, 0, 26
Black text 10.3:1 (passes AA)
#BADAEBBlue, 3.7%
RGB 186, 218, 235; CMYK 21, 7, 0, 8
Black text 14.3:1 (passes AA)
#479CCABlue, 3.2%
RGB 71, 156, 202; CMYK 65, 23, 0, 21
Black text 6.9:1 (passes AA)
#70B2D6Blue, 2.3%
RGB 112, 178, 214; CMYK 48, 17, 0, 16
Black text 9.0:1 (passes AA)

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Contrast and color difference

White Visible, low contrast

Black Clear

Mid grey Original disappears, shown reversed

On #0076B6 Reversed to white

Compared with Sports

2,708 measured Sports logos

Only 4% of Sports logos in the archive are symbols.

Main color blue26%
Symbol4%
Four or more colors85%

From measured files, not tags. Updated 29/10/2026.

Structure

Logo type: SymbolClassified by AI
Proportions: 1.3 : 1Horizontal
Ink coverage: 43%57% empty space inside the outline
Symmetry: Asymmetric32% left-right match
Outline: Free-formOverall silhouette
Complexity: Detailed3 shapes, about 1,101 points

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#0076B6

#B0B7BC

Visual description

Classified by AI

Symbol shows: Leaping lion
Style: Flat, minimal
Layout: Symbol on its own
Techniques: Line art

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