Camo reference
124 patterns, 57 families, one library.
Current issue, historical, and commercial — click any pattern for its history, service years, and the regions it was built for. Swatches are stylized palette renderings, not the licensed patterns. The scanner names these on your gear; the camo guide explains how to choose.
Current issue
What armies wear right now. · 40 patterns
USMC
US Navy/SOF
Germany
France
Switzerland
Sweden
Canada
China
Czech Republic
Commercial & hunting
Patterns you buy, not get issued. · 44 patterns
Crye
Russia/commercial
Kryptek
Kryptek Altitude
2016–nowKryptek's high-alpine hunting colorway, built for above-treeline rock and scree.
Kryptek Highlander
2012–nowKryptek's transitional commercial pattern with 3D lattice.
Kryptek Mandrake
2012–nowKryptek's green lattice.
Kryptek Nomad
2012–nowKryptek's open-desert colorway in pale sand tones.
Kryptek Typhon
2012–nowKryptek's black/grey styling pattern.
Kryptek Yeti
2013–nowKryptek's snow colorway — the lattice rendered in white and grey.
A-TACS
Hyde Definition
PenCott Badlands
2011–nowPenCott's transitional colorway.
PenCott GreenZone
2009–nowBritish-designed commercial digital with fractal edges.
PenCott Metropolis
2012–nowPenCott's grey urban colorway.
PenCott Sandstorm
2011–nowPenCott's arid colorway for open sand and dry rock.
PenCott Snowdrift
2012–nowPenCott's overwhite colorway with the family's fractal micro/macro structure.
GORE/Sitka
Optifade Elevated II
2016–nowOptifade's treestand pattern, engineered for the steep downward sight-line of whitetail hunting.
Optifade Open Country
2009–nowThe western big-country sibling.
Optifade Subalpine
2017–nowScience-first pattern engineered around ungulate vision.
Optifade Waterfowl Marsh
2015–nowOptifade's open-marsh waterfowl pattern, engineered around bird vision.
Optifade Waterfowl Timber
2018–nowThe flooded-timber sibling of Optifade's waterfowl line.
Realtree
Mossy Oak
Mossy Oak Bottomland
1986–nowThe 1986 dirt-and-bark original, revived hard in waterfowl culture.
Mossy Oak Break-Up Country
2016–nowThe 2016 entry in Mossy Oak's Break-Up lineage, with oversized limbs and bark.
Mossy Oak Obsession
2004–nowMossy Oak's spring turkey pattern, heavy on green foliage.
Mossy Oak Shadow Grass
1995–nowMossy Oak's waterfowl grass pattern, refreshed over the years into today's Habitat version.
commercial
ASAT
1985–now'All Season All Terrain' — the 1985 cult classic that never changed.
ConCamo Green
2018–nowGerman confusion camouflage released in the late 2010s, layering fine detail over larger shapes.
Desert Tiger Stripe
2002–nowTigerstripe redrawn in desert tans, produced commercially from the early 2000s.
Predator Fall Grey
1988–nowOpen-pattern hunting camo from the same era as ASAT.
Trebark
1980–nowJim Crumley's 1980 vertical bark pattern — the design that launched the modern hunting-camo industry.
Urban Camo
1985–nowThe black-white-grey recolor of M81 Woodland that filled 1980s-90s surplus shops.
King's Camo
Historical
Retired patterns — where the story started. · 40 patterns
US issue
Desert Night Camo (DNC)
1982–1995The 1980s US overgarment pattern — a grey-green grid designed to defeat Soviet first-generation night-vision devices.
ERDL
1948–19811948 Engineer Research & Development Lab pattern, issued widely in Vietnam; M81's direct parent.
M1942 Frogskin
1942–1945The US WWII reversible spot camouflage — green jungle face on one side, tan beach face on the other — first issued in 1942.
M81 Woodland
1981–2005The 1981 US standard that defined 'camouflage' for a generation — green/brown/black/tan in bold blotches.
Mitchell Pattern
1953–1985The 1950s US reversible leaf/cloud print, best known as the M1 helmet cover of the Vietnam War.
Six-Color Desert (Chocolate Chip)
1981–19951980s US desert pattern with black-on-white 'cookie' rocks; famous from Desert Storm.
Three-Color Desert (DCU)
1992–2008The 1990s 'coffee stain' replacement for chocolate chip; standard through early GWOT.
UCP (ACU)
2004–2019The Army's 2004 universal grey digital — an attempt at one-pattern-everywhere.
UCP-Delta
2009–2010A 2009-2010 trial variant of UCP with coyote brown added, tested for Afghanistan.
UK
British Windproof (WWII)
1942–1965The brushed splodge print of WWII British windproof oversmocks, in pale sand, pink-tan and green.
Denison Brushstroke
1942–1977The pattern of the British airborne Denison smock, introduced in 1942 — broad green and brown brushstrokes over a sandy base.
Desert DPM (DDPM)
1991–2011Britain's two-color desert DPM, fielded around the 1991 Gulf War and standard through Iraq and Afghanistan until MTP.
DPM
1968–2011Britain's brushstroke-descended Disruptive Pattern Material, decades of service.
East Germany
Netherlands
Australia
New Zealand
Soviet
Beyond printed patterns: ghillies & scrim
Printed camo breaks up color — 3D concealment breaks up SHAPE. Ghillie suits, helmet scrim, and veils are the next step past picking a pattern. Learn the Army-doctrine ghillie build (FM 23-10 lineage — base suit, netting, garnish, and the 60/40 rule), or browse concealment gear.
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