The Global Language of Business
The GS1 US Color and Size Table gives suppliers, retailers and manufacturers a common language for product color and size identification.
Please review the GS1 US Color and Size Codes Guidelines before you make your purchase to ensure that you are able to use the codes once purchased. Please note that GS1 US does not provide technical support for using Microsoft Excel.
In 2020, GS1 US acquired the National Retail Federation (NRF) Color and Size Code tables. The Color and Size Code system was designed in the early 1960s to support the purchasing process widely used by major U.S. retailers. With the strong endorsement from manufacturing and retailing communities to utilize Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), the GS1 U.P.C. Symbology emerged as the preferred item identification method for the apparel and general merchandise communities.
The GS1 US Color and Size Codes (previously managed by NRF) give retailers, vendors, and manufacturers a common language for product color and size identification that supplement the master data conveyed by sharing U.P.C.s.
For products which have a color and/or size, a GS1 US Color Code and/or a GS1 US Size Code are required Minimum Data Elements for implementation of the X12 EDI Price Sales Catalog Transaction Set (832). See the GS1 US website to learn more about EDI.
In addition to cost savings related to improved inventory management, fewer errors due to manual entry and reduced time for new item set up and maintenance, use of the Color and Size codes allows retailers and their vendor partners to do automated analysis for sales trends by sizes and colors, and helps guide merchandise assortment planning.
This helps ensure that the right merchandise is in the right place at the right time, benefiting not just retailers and vendors, but consumers, too.
Using the GS1 US Color and Size Codes benefit the consumer, retailer, and vendor as follows.
ConsumerThe GS1 US Color and Size Codes are not part of the UPC. In the United States, a U.P.C. is a 12-digit code that includes the GS1 Company Prefix, a product sequence number assigned by the manufacturer, and a final check digit.
The GS1 US Color and Size codes are only available electronically, either from our partners, OpenText, InterTrade,SPS Commerce or by purchasing them through a one-time downloadable format from the GS1 US Store.
GS1 US membership is not required to obtain the GS1 US Color and Size Codes. The codes may be obtained from our Partners, or they may be purchased through the GS1 US Store in Excel format.
Select a code that best describes your item from the tables. New color codes cannot be requested, but if you are looking for a size code and can’t find one that describes your item, please submit a request for a new size code through the one of the named solution partners tools through which you are accessing the codes.