The Blank Color Program

Blank Hockey Jerseys by Color — Six Standing Colorways, Every Other Color Dyed to Reference

Color is where a blank jersey order starts. RunHockey Apparel runs the blank program in six standing colorways — Black, White, Red, Royal Blue, Vegas Gold, and Kelly Green — held as dyed fabric ahead of order, and matches any color outside the six to whatever reference you hold. Every color runs across the same four garment types — player-cut and hockey goalie-cut jerseys, practice jerseys, hockey socks, and pant shells — in youth through adult sizes.

Send Your Color List See the Six Standing Colorways
6standing colorways, dyed ahead
4garment types in every colorway
12hbusiness-hour availability answer

Standing — dyed ahead of order, held ready

Black
White
Red
Royal Blue
Vegas Gold
Kelly Green

Every other color — dyed to reference · the slot stays open until yours arrives

The Standing Six

The Six Standing Colorways — One List Across Every Blank Garment

The standing list is fixed at six, and it is the same six on every blank garment type. Standing means the fabric for these colors is dyed ahead of order and held ready — for buyers on a standing restock account, the list ties into a monthly replenishment cycle covered on wholesale hockey jerseys.

Black

The dark neutral of the six — the deepest ground in the set.

4 garment typesYouth–Adult

Black hockey jerseys →

White

The light neutral of the six, and the lightest ground in the set.

4 garment typesYouth–Adult

White hockey jerseys →
A color reference chart on a planning table — the six standing colorways run across all four garment types and all three fabric bases, youth through adult
One fixed list of six — every colorway runs on all four garment types, all three fabric bases, youth through adult. Availability is confirmed per inquiry.
Beyond the Six

Custom Colors — Matched to Your Reference, Made to Order

Any color outside the standing six is a custom color, and a custom color is produced, not pulled from a shelf. There is no second stock list behind the six. A custom color starts from a reference you supply — a color code, a physical swatch or garment, or the color as it sits in your artwork files. We dye or print to that reference, the match goes through one approval round at sampling, and production runs after sign-off. The three reference types and their risk levels get their own section further down.

Two custom-route colors already have pages of their own in this program: navy hockey jerseys and purple hockey jerseys cover how each color is produced and used. Neither is held as stock — both run the same reference-and-approval route as any other custom color.

What a Custom Color Changes — and What It Leaves Alone

Unchanged
The same four garment types, the same three fabric bases, the same youth-through-adult size range, and the same received condition as any standing-color order.
Changed
The color source. Instead of coming off a shelf already dyed, the cloth is dyed to your reference for this order — which is why a custom color carries an approval round the six do not.
Physical color references on a work table — a swatch, a piece of fabric, or an existing garment can all lead a custom color
A swatch, a length of fabric, or an existing garment — any of the three can lead a custom color.

To reference — the open slot

Color reference cards held against fabric — a custom color starts from the reference the buyer sends and is approved once at sampling
The lower shelf stays open: a custom color exists only once your reference does.
What “Held Ready” Means

Standing Stock on an Order — What Changes and What Does Not

A standing color changes the color stage of an order — and nothing else.

What changes

The color is settled when the order is placed, because the fabric for the six is already dyed to the standing standard and held ready. There is no reference to send, no match to review, no color approval round to schedule — the stage a custom color spends on matching and approval simply does not exist for a standing color. The order moves straight to size split, garment mix, and scheduling.

What does not

The garment is still cut and sewn to order. Held ready means dyed fabric on the shelf, not finished jerseys in a warehouse — cutting, sewing, and finishing still take their place in the production schedule, and an order in a standing color is a production order, not a pickup from stock. The fabric bases, panel construction, size range, and packing format are identical to any other blank order: a standing colorway is a color decision made in advance, not a different product.

What you can hold us to: a standing colorway is one fixed standard, not a target re-read each run. The red on this season's order is the standing red — and for a decoration shop, the base that pressed last quarter is the base that presses this quarter. That fixedness is the whole point of holding the six. For buyers who reorder the same colors on a rhythm, the standing six are also what a standing restock account is built on — cadence, reorder triggers, and gap cover are owned by wholesale hockey jerseys and not repeated here.
Dyed fabric held ready — standing colors exist as dyed fabric on the shelf before an order arrives
Held ready = dyed fabric on the shelf, before your order exists.
Finished blank garments sorted by color — a standing-color order is still cut and sewn to order, then packed by color and size
Cut, sewn, and finished to order — then packed by color and size.
Two Ways a Color Arrives

Six Colors Dyed Ahead of Order — Every Other Color Dyed to Reference

The six standing colorways are dyed and held before an order arrives. Any color outside the six starts from a reference you send.

Difference 1 · The starting action

Standing: none. You name the color, and the color stage of the order is done.

Custom: everything begins from the reference you send — a code, a physical sample, or an artwork file.

Difference 2 · The confirmation rounds

Standing: zero. Nothing was interpreted, so nothing needs approving.

Custom: one. The dyed or printed result is confirmed against your reference at sampling, before bulk.

Difference 3 · The reproduction basis

Standing: the standing dye standard — one fixed target on every order.

Custom: your approved match, kept on the order record and re-used on every reorder.

Rolls of already-dyed fabric sorted by color on a shelf — the six standing colorways wait as cloth, not as finished garments
The standing six wait as dyed cloth — the color decision was made before your order arrived.
The Fork

Standing or Custom — Choosing Between the Two Color Routes

If your color is one of the six, it is standing; if it is not, it runs custom. What the choice actually weighs is three things — where the color comes from, what the route adds, and how reorders behave.

What the choice weighsStanding routeCustom route
Color source The standing dye standard for that colorway — settled the moment you name it. Your reference — a code, a physical sample, or an artwork file — matched and approved at sampling.
Added stages None. The color question closes at order placement. One: the match-and-approve round at sampling. After sign-off, the order journey runs identically on both routes.
Reorders The same standing standard again — this season's red is the standing red, not a re-reading of a reference. The approved match stays on the order record — the approval round is spent once, not on every run.
Where programs land Standard team color structures: the dark-and-light home-and-away pair, the classic red, blue, gold, and green. Established palettes: a brand's registered colors, a club's existing kit — colors fixed by something outside our six.

A program does not have to pick one route for everything. A pattern we produce regularly: the game set in a custom club color, with the training layer, socks, or shells taken from the standing six. Each garment keeps the route its color needs, and the whole program is planned in one order conversation. One honest limit: a custom color cannot become a standing one mid-program — the list is fixed at six, and a custom color stays on the reference-and-approval route on every order, including reorders. The decorated-order journey after color is settled is covered on custom hockey jerseys.

Dyed fabric moving to cutting — on the standing route the color question is already closed when production begins
Standing route: the color question is closed before production begins.
Color being produced against a reference — on the custom route the match is approved at sampling before bulk
Custom route: the match is approved at sampling, then bulk runs.
Settle the Body First

Choosing a Base Color — Four Things the Body Color Locks

When we review a color plan with a buyer, the body color gets settled first — because it locks four things downstream of it.

Number and lettering readabilityContrast at rink distance
Numbers and names read through contrast with the body, and they have to read at rink distance — from the bench and the stands. A dark body carries light marks; a light body carries dark or saturated marks. That is why the standing list keeps one deep neutral and one light neutral: black and white anchor the two readability directions, and the four saturated colors each sit clearly on one side of the line.
Home and away structureA pair decision
Hockey programs run a dark set and a light set, so the body color is usually a pair decision rather than a single-color decision — which is why pairing gets its own section below. A first order does not have to take both sets at once; the sequencing routes for a first run are covered on the first-order page.
Training-layer identificationVisible squads
On the practice ice, the body color is how a roster splits into visible squads — the color block identifies the group and the number identifies the player. Squad color planning for training fleets is owned by hockey practice jerseys.
The decoration routeSome routes care about the base
Some decoration methods are base-color-sensitive and some are not, so the body color narrows which routes read correctly on it. The route-by-route detail gets its own section further down this page.

When a color plan comes in, our first reply works through these four points in order — readability, home-and-away structure, training use, and decoration route — before any sampling is scheduled. A body color that fails one of them is cheapest to change before anything is dyed or printed.

Numbers and lettering being applied to a garment body — marks read through contrast with the body color at rink distance
Marks read through contrast with the body — the base color decides which marks work.
A jersey body cloth up close — the body color is settled first because it locks readability, structure, training use, and decoration route
The body color is settled first — four downstream decisions hang on it.
Two Neutrals, Four Saturated

Pairing the Six — Home, Away, and Accent Structure

Pairing inside the standing list follows the structure of hockey colors, not the size of the list.

A dark garment and a light garment folded side by side as one set — a home-and-away pair reads as one program when the same accent appears on both bodies

The Home-and-Away Pair

A pair needs one dark ground and one light ground that read as one program. In the six, the dark grounds are black and royal blue; white is the light ground. Red, Vegas Gold, and Kelly Green sit between the poles — each can anchor the dark side of a pair against white, or take the light side against black, depending on the contrast the marks need. The pair reads as one program when the same accent appears on both bodies — the trim, the numbers, and the crest carry the identity across the two grounds.

Trim and stripe detail being sewn onto a garment — second and third colors ride on stripes, trim, numbers, and the crest rather than needing their own dyed bodies

The Accent Layer

The second and third colors of a program rarely need a second body. They ride on stripes, trim, numbers, and the crest — so a two-color or three-color identity usually builds from one or two bodies plus an accent, not from three dyed garments. Bodies carry the structure; accents carry the detail. The six were assembled as a working palette, so pairs and accents resolve inside the standing list — and when a structure needs a color outside the six, that one color runs custom while the rest stay standing.

A full kit moving through production — when the pair extends to socks and shells, the kit is matched as one set against a single approved reference

Beyond the Jersey

When the pair extends to hockey socks and shells, color stops being a per-garment decision — the kit is matched as one set against a single approved reference, because jersey, sock, and shell fabrics each take color differently. That convergence is covered once on hockey uniforms.

For shops decorating blanks themselves, pairing also answers which bodies your existing inventory reads on. A shop set up with light inks and white twill needs dark bodies — and the reverse.
Same Color, Two Reads

Color Drift — Four Causes, Four Documented Controls

Two garments ordered in the same color can still come out looking like two colors, for exactly four reasons. Each cause has a documented control owned by the page running that process — this section is the map, not the manual.

1 · The reference left room for interpretation

An ambiguous target gets re-interpreted by every batch. This is the one cause a buyer controls directly, by what they send — the three reference types and their risk levels are laid out in the next section.

2 · The fabric base changed

The same dye or ink lands differently on an open air knit than on a dense double-knit or a mesh. Our print and dye profiles are calibrated per fabric base against the order's approved reference — the mechanism is documented on hockey socks.

3 · The dye lot or batch changed

Two dye lots can each pass their own check and still look different side by side. Large solid color blocks are kept to a single lot per order — documented on hockey pant shells — and multi-batch orders are matched batch to batch against pieces from the previous delivery, covered on bulk hockey jerseys.

4 · The process drifted mid-run

Printed work is checked against the approved reference while the run is still on the press, not after sewing — the within-run control sits with the process on sublimated hockey jerseys.

Across all four, the principle on this site is one target per order: whatever the route, the signed-off result goes on the order record, production checks against it, and a reorder returns to it.
A color check under controlled light — drift is caught by comparing work against the approved reference, not by eye at the end
Drift is caught by comparing against the approved target — not by eye at the end of the run.
What You Send Decides the Risk

Color References — Code, Physical Sample, or Artwork File

A custom color is only as exact as the reference that starts it. Three reference types arrive with orders, and each carries a different amount of risk — the reference type, not the color itself, decides how much room for interpretation the run begins with.

A Color Code

Tier 1 · Zero interpretation room

The most exact reference a buyer can send. A code fixes the target before any fabric is dyed — nothing to interpret, and the dyed result is checked against the code directly. When a program holds codes, sending them removes the reference question entirely.

A coded color reference — a code fixes the target before any fabric is dyed, leaving nothing to interpret

A Physical Sample

Tier 2 · One added confirmation round

A swatch, a piece of fabric, or an existing garment. A physical reference adds one stage: we match to the actual piece, and the match goes through a match-and-approve round — we produce the match, you confirm it on fabric, and the confirmed result becomes the target for the run.

Physical fabric samples used as color references — the match is produced against the actual piece and confirmed on fabric

An Artwork File Only

Tier 3 · The widest gap

A color on a screen is a display rendering; the same values produce a different result on dyed or printed polyester. When the artwork file is all there is, the sample stage closes the gap — the color is approved on the physical sample before bulk.

Artwork on a screen — a display rendering is the widest gap from dyed fabric, so the color is approved on a physical sample before bulk

Whatever you send, make it the most exact reference you have: if a code exists, it travels with the order; if the garment exists but no code, the garment leads. Two boundaries worth stating — what happens to color after the reference is set, the batch-level control on a printed run, is covered on sublimated hockey jerseys, and the way one reference is held across different fabric bases is covered on hockey socks. This section ends where the reference is approved.

None of this applies to the six standing colorways: naming the color is the entire reference, and no approval round follows.

Have the color list already — standing, custom, or mixed?

Send it with your garment mix and quantity direction; the availability answer comes back within 12 business hours.

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What to Send

The Color Inquiry — What to Send and What Comes Back

Availability on this page is verified per inquiry, not shown as a live stock counter. The exchange looks like this.

  1. The colors — names from the standing six, or the reference type you hold for a custom color: code, physical sample, or artwork file.
  2. The garments — which of the four types, and for jerseys, which cut: player or hockey goalie.
  3. The size direction — roughly how the order splits between youth and adult; the full measurement table sits on the hockey jersey size chart.
  4. The quantity direction — a working number per color is enough at this stage.

What comes back within 12 business hours: for standing colors, a direct confirmation of the current dye-stock position and the next production window for your mix; for custom colors, the match-and-approve path for your reference type instead of a stock position. Once a complete tech pack is in, a quotation follows within 24 hours.

Nothing has to be final to start the exchange. A color list with open questions in it is a normal first message — the reply names what is missing rather than bouncing the inquiry.

A color inquiry being prepared on paper — colors, garment types, size direction, and a working quantity per color
Colors, garments, size direction, quantity direction — four lines are enough to start.
One List, Every Garment

Color Coverage — Four Garment Types, Youth Through Adult

Every color on this page — standing or custom — runs across the whole blank garment range.

GarmentBuildColors

Player-cut jerseys

The standard over-padding cut.

All six + custom

Hockey goalie-cut jerseys

The fuller cut drafted for hockey goalie padding.

All six + custom

Practice jerseys

Including the reversible two-face build, one colorway per face.

All six + custom

Hockey socks

The standard cut-and-sew construction.

All six + custom

Pant shells

The standard shell construction.

All six + custom

Three fabric bases cover the range — air knit, double-knit, and mesh polyester — with the base chosen per garment; the published weight range for each base is listed on blank hockey jerseys. Sizing runs youth through adult on every garment and every colorway, and the full measurement table is published on the hockey jersey size chart.

Color choice does not move a garment outside its standard construction: a custom color gets the same panels, the same seams, and the same packing format as a standing one — the only thing the color decision changes is where the color comes from.

Garments being sewn in varied colorways — every color runs across the same standard constructions
Same panels, same seams — the color decision never changes the construction.
A production floor running several garment types — player and hockey goalie cuts, practice jerseys, hockey socks, and pant shells all take the same color list
One color list feeds every garment type on the floor.
The Base You Pick Decides the Route

Decoration Routes on Light and Dark Bases

Blank garments leave undecorated, but the base color is rarely chosen without the later decoration in mind — most buyers on this page either run their own print, twill, or embroidery line, or order decoration from us on the same garments. Two of the four decoration routes care about the base color; two do not.

Base-color sensitive

Sublimation

Sublimation puts color into the polyester itself, so the ground stays part of the result: full-coverage artwork starts from white or light fabric, and white elements in a design only exist on a white ground. Within the standing six, white is the base that carries unrestricted sublimation artwork. The mechanism, its limits, and the full route comparison sit on sublimated hockey jerseys.

Heat transfer

Partly sensitive. The transfer layer covers the ground, but thin or light designs can let a dark base show through at the edges — so dark bases call for opaque transfer builds.

Not base-color sensitive

Tackle twill & embroidery

The mark carries its own face fabric or thread color, so it reads on any of the six, dark or light. The applied-mark routes get their own page, currently in preparation: tackle twill and embroidered hockey jerseys.

The practical upshot

If the plan is full-coverage print, the base decision is white or a custom light color. If the plan is applied marks, any of the six works as ground.

Full-coverage print on a light base — printed routes keep the ground as part of the result, so the base color stays a design decision
Printed routes keep the ground in the result — the base is a design decision.
An applied mark being laid down — twill and embroidery carry their own face color and read on any of the six bases
Applied marks carry their own face color — any of the six works as ground.
Start Here

Start With Your Color List

Send the colors your program is planned around — names from the standing six, a reference for a custom color, or a mix of both — with the garment types and a quantity direction. The reply comes back within 12 business hours: an availability answer for the standing colors, a production path for the custom ones.

The color list can be rough. The first reply says what is missing rather than sending the form back.

Garments moving through the floor in several colorways — a color list with open questions is a normal first message
  • Standing colors get a dye-stock position and the next production window for your mix; custom colors get the match-and-approve path for your reference type.
  • A rough list is a normal first message — the reply names what is missing, not a bounced form.
  • Once a complete tech pack is in, a quotation follows within 24 hours.

Colors, garment types, size direction, and a working number per color — the checklist above drops straight in here.

Inquiries are answered within 12 business hours.