Not sure on your colour theme? Pick a colour, see it on a kit, get the verdicts — keeper contrast, referee clash, how it reads against grass. Every swatch here is a colour we can actually produce, so nothing you like is a colour you can’t have.
The kit shown is deliberately plain — one body colour, one trim — because this is the colour decision, not the design. Patterns, panels, crest and sponsor come later, in the design rounds. Why only 23 colours? Because each one carries a dye reference our production can actually hit: a swatch we can’t manufacture is a promise we can’t keep. For the thinking behind a good colour choice, read the non-designer’s guide to kit colours and the goalkeeper kit guide.
Two dominant colours plus a small accent is the combination that keeps working. High-contrast pairs read best from the touchline and in photos: yellow with navy, white with red, sky blue with navy, amber with black. Tonal pairs — sky on royal, grey on charcoal — blur into one colour at forty yards.
Bottle green, navy or yellow. The keeper needs to contrast your outfield shirt and the kits most common in your league, and all three sit far from red. The tester on this page computes the highest-contrast keeper colour for any combination you pick.
Usually not — referees wear black, and most leagues will refuse to register an all-black outfield kit for exactly that reason. Black works as a dominant colour with a strong contrasting trim, and it is always available for the goalkeeper or the training kit.
Strong two-tone contrast. Match photos, sponsor posts and team-announcement graphics all reward a kit whose two colours separate cleanly — which is worth weighing if a sponsor's logo or a social feed matters to your club.
Most amateur leagues register each club's colours and require visiting teams to change on a clash, and some refuse specific colours outright (all-black most commonly). Check your league handbook before ordering, and pick a home kit that reads clearly light or clearly dark — it survives most clash decisions.