47 patterns the scanner knows.

1948 Engineer Research & Development Lab pattern, issued widely in Vietnam; M81's direct parent.

field · Effective in dense green jungle; the smaller blotches read as texture at distance.

The 1981 US standard that defined 'camouflage' for a generation — green/brown/black/tan in bold blotches.

field · Still excellent in actual eastern woodland; poor in arid and urban settings. Enjoying a full-scale revival.

The Army's in-house near-twin of MultiCam, standard since 2015.

field · Functionally MultiCam; the two are nearly indistinguishable in photos — vertical elements differ subtly.

1980s US desert pattern with black-on-white 'cookie' rocks; famous from Desert Storm.

field · Designed for rocky high desert; too busy for open sand — replaced by tri-color.

The 1990s 'coffee stain' replacement for chocolate chip; standard through early GWOT.

field · Solid in open arid terrain; surplus is cheap and everywhere.

The Army's 2004 universal grey digital — an attempt at one-pattern-everywhere.

field · Underperformed nearly everywhere; the cautionary tale that produced OCP. Surplus abounds.

MARPAT's arid twin.

field · Strong in open desert; small digital pixels vanish at distance.

Navy's restricted desert digital, famous via SEAL imagery.

field · MARPAT-desert-adjacent; genuine articles are restricted-issue, reproductions common.

The Navy's green digital working uniform.

field · Shore-duty standard; visually close to AOR2 at a glance.

The Air Force's grey digital tiger stripe, retired for OCP.

field · Another one-pattern-everywhere miss; surplus curiosity now.

WWII M1942 spot pattern, later a Vietnam-era icon via surplus; named for its postwar popularity with duck hunters.

field · Historic; commercial spot camos descend from it.

Vietnam-era ARVN/SOF stripes, never a US standard issue but iconic with advisors and SEALs.

field · Superb in dense vegetation with hard shadows; a heritage/identity pattern today.

Crye Precision's 2002 transitional pattern; adopted as Army OCP baseline and by allied SOF worldwide.

field · The best all-rounder in production; strongest in mixed/transitional terrain.

Crye's overwhite variant.

field · Real snow performance; typically worn as overgarments.

Britain's brushstroke-descended Disruptive Pattern Material, decades of service.

field · Excellent temperate performance; surplus is abundant and cheap.

Bundeswehr's 1990 five-color dot pattern.

field · Outstanding in dark European forest; instantly recognizable dots.

France's Central-Europe woodland, big horizontal blotches.

field · Solid European-forest pattern; horizontal flow is the tell vs M81.

The world's first issued digital pattern (2002), parent of MARPAT.

field · Very green; strong in boreal forest.

Australia's 'hearts and bunnies' blotch pattern.

field · Tuned for the outback's red-tan scrub; unmistakable shapes.

Soviet 'sunray' one-piece oversuit pattern with stair-step texture.

field · Designed to defeat early NVGs; collector favorite.

Russia's current digital standard.

field · Fine green digital; near-universal on modern Russian imagery.

SRVV's commercial Russian digital.

field · Popular with Russian contractors/units buying commercial.

SSO's leaf-print reversible, echoing WWII partisan smocks.

field · Strong in deciduous forest; reversible spring/autumn.

The 70s brushstroke that armies of the region wore; ancestor aesthetic to many.

field · Superb in dry brush; heritage-heavy pattern with modern reproductions.

Kryptek's transitional commercial pattern with 3D lattice.

field · Strong in rock/scrub; the lattice reads organic at distance.

Kryptek's green lattice.

field · Good under canopy; popular on hunting soft goods.

Arid/Urban micro-pattern using organic pixel clouds.

field · Blurs well against dirt and rock at mid-range.

PenCott's transitional colorway.

field · Strong in dead grass and broken ground.

The western big-country sibling.

field · Grey-tan micro/macro blend for rock and sage.

Photorealistic hunting camo built from actual foliage imagery.

field · Made for treestand stillness, not movement; ubiquitous in hunting.

The 1986 dirt-and-bark original, revived hard in waterfowl culture.

field · Elite in flooded timber; a lifestyle brand in the South.

'All Season All Terrain' — the 1985 cult classic that never changed.

field · Vertical light/dark limbs; devotees swear nothing beats it for stillness.