Blade Colors

The Jedi masters with the different colors used in Jedi lightsaber construction.

The different colors of the lightsabers are mainly the result of the focusing crystal in it's hilt. Traditionally, the siths' used red blade colors. This is due largely to them using fabricated synth-crystals which was usually designed to give out shades of red. The Jedis on the other hand, used different type of natural crystals. This has given rise to the different blade colors variant. Some of the more commonly used colors were blue (Obi-wan's), green (like Skywalker's), violet (Mace Windu's), orange, yellow, cyan, silver and gold.

Though it was typically avoided by the Jedi's' order to avoid association with the Siths, there were still some ancient Jedi that uses red. One of whom is Sylvar. Other colors known to exist but are extremely rare are bronze, brown and black. Colors of the blades were also once used to symbolized the path the Jedi chose in his duties during the Jedi Civil War era. Although not a mandatory guideline, the colors of the blades used and its owner's Post are as follows:

1. Green: Jedi Consular (Generally they are a class of scholarly diplomats and negotiators.)
2. Blue: Jedi Guardians (As the name suggests, they are the physical defneders within the order for the Galaxy.)
3. Yellow: Jedi Sentinels (The balanced of the first two posts.)