Tube Colours
Transport for London (TfL) take their colours extremely seriously – the London Underground, in particularly, uses colour extensively to brand each line, and the maps and liveries are very well known.
The organisation has a colour guide to ensure that, when referencing the tube lines, the correct colour is used. Somewhat surprisingly, the guide includes hexadecimal (i.e. web) colours for only a “safe” palette – i.e. colours which would definitely work in very old web browsers. They don’t list the “true” hexadecimal for the colours, even though, confusingly, the colour shown is the true one. I couldn’t find anywhere on the web that did this either, all in one place, so here below is a summary. I’ve also included the safe colours so you can see the difference – but don’t use these unless you have to.
| Line | True Hexadecimal | Web Safe Hexadecimal |
|---|---|---|
| Bakerloo | #B36305 | #996633 |
| Central | #E32017 | #CC3333 |
| Circle | #FFD300 | #FFCC00 |
| District | #00782A | #006633 |
| Hammersmith and City | #F3A9BB | #CC9999 |
| Jubilee | #A0A5A9 | #868F98 |
| Metropolitan | #9B0056 | #660066 |
| Northern | #000000 | #000000 |
| Piccadilly | #003688 | #000099 |
| Victoria | #0098D4 | #0099CC |
| Waterloo and City | #95CDBA | #66CCCC |
| DLR | #00A4A7 | #009999 |
| Overground | #EE7C0E | #FF6600 |
| Tramlink | #84B817 | #66CC00 |