The Los Angeles Lakers logo is composed of a dark yellow image of a ball, overlapped by stylized slanted lettering in a classy custom serif font. The purple inscription is set in two levels with clean distinctive contours decorated by thin and short horizontal strokes, coming out of them and adding a sense of speed and motion.

The Lakers logo consists of the team name, "Los Angeles Lakers" written in purple on top of a gold basketball. Purple uniforms are used for road games and gold uniforms are used for home games. The team also wears white jerseys for Sunday and holiday home games.

The current logo featuring a basketball with distinctively traced seams and the full name Los Angeles Lakers written across it in purple and motion lines streaming away from it has become one of the most recognizable symbols in the NBA. The Lakers emblem: The distinctive wordmark is the emblem’s visual center.