File:Flag of Iceland.svg

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Summary

Description

Беларуская: Сцяг Ісландыі

বাংলা: আইসল্যান্ডের পতাকা

Íslenska: Íslenski fáninn

Brezhoneg: Banniel Island

Cymraeg: Baner Gwlad yr Iâ

Dansk: Islands flag

Deutsch: Flagge Islands

Eesti: Islandi lipp

English: The Flag of Iceland.

Horizontal aspect ratio: 7:1:2:1:14;
Vertical aspect ratio: 7:1:2:1:7.

Español: Bandera de Islandia

Esperanto: La flago de Islando

Français : Le drapeau de l'Islande

Føroyskt: Flagg Íslands

Hrvatski: Zastava Islanda

Magyar: Izland zászlaja

Latina: Vexillum Islandiae

Nederlands: Vlag van IJsland

Norrǿna: Þjóðfáni Íslands

Norsk bokmål: Islands flagg

Norsk nynorsk: Det islandske flagget

Polski: Flaga Islandii

Русский: Флаг Исландии

Slovenščina: Državna zastava Islandije

Svenska: Islands flagga

Українська: Прапор Ісландії

Date 1944

Source

Construction sheet:

Author Árni Dagur, and Magasjukur2

SVG development

The SVG code is valid.

This flag was created with a text editor.

Source code

SVG code

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1250" height="900" viewBox="0 0 25 18"><path d="M0 0h25v18H0Z" fill="#02529C"/><path d="M0 9h25M9 0v18" stroke-width="4" stroke="#FFF"/><path d="M0 9h25M9 0v18" stroke-width="2" stroke="#DC1E35"/></svg>

Colours

Sky blue	rendered as `RGB 002 082 156`
Snow white	rendered as `RGB 255 255 255`
Fire red	rendered as `RGB 220 030 053`

Colors schemes

Officially, the colours of the Icelandic flag follow a law set in 1991 which states that the colours must be the following Standard Colour of Textile (Dictionnaire Internationale de la Couleur) hues:

Scheme	Blue	White	Red
SCOTDIC	693009	95	ICELAND FLAG RED

The government of Iceland has issued^[1] colour specifications in the better known Pantone, CMYK, RGB, Hexadecimals and Avery systems.

Scheme	Blue	White	Red
Hex	#02529C	#FFFFFF	#DC1E35
RGB	2, 82, 156	255, 255, 255	220, 30, 53
Pantone	287	1c	199
CMYK	100, 75, 2, 18	0, 0, 0, 0	0, 100, 72, 0
Avery	520	501	503

Derivative Versions

Derivative works of this file: Nordic cross proposal for Lithuanian flag.svg:

Licensing

This image is in the public domain in Iceland because section §49 of the Icelandic Copyright law specifies that images not considered to be "works of art" become public domain 50 years after creation (details).

This image of simple geometry is ineligible for copyright and therefore in the public domain, because it consists entirely of information that is common property and contains no original authorship.

Heptagon

This image shows a flag, a coat of arms, a seal or some other official insignia. The use of such symbols is restricted in many countries. These restrictions are independent of the copyright status.

↑ AUGLÝSING um liti íslenska fánans.. PMO.

File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	18:32, 11 January 2020	1,250 × 900 (281 bytes)	Inkub0	Code simplified and reduced
	03:34, 22 November 2017	800 × 576 (287 bytes)	RainbowSilver2ndBackup	Please discuss before reverting
	20:39, 6 November 2017	500 × 360 (281 bytes)	Liambaker98	Reverted to version as of 02:38, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
	20:38, 6 November 2017	1,000 × 720 (289 bytes)	Liambaker98	Reverted to version as of 06:14, 17 June 2017 (UTC)
	20:46, 17 June 2017	800 × 576 (287 bytes)	ArniDagur	changed to official colours, made flag 20% smaller https://www.forsaetisraduneyti.is/media/frettir2/Auglysing-um-liti-islenska-fanans.pdf
	06:14, 17 June 2017	1,000 × 720 (289 bytes)	ArniDagur	made flag bigger to match the other nordic flags
	02:38, 22 June 2016	500 × 360 (281 bytes)	Stefán Örvar Sigmundsson	SVG can automatically resize images so there is no reason for it to be so large.
	20:09, 30 March 2012	2,500 × 1,800 (289 bytes)	Magasjukur2	Simplified
	21:43, 19 May 2009	2,500 × 1,800 (383 bytes)	Zscout370	Reducing code, also matched http://eng.forsaetisraduneyti.is/state-symbols/icelandic-national-flag/proportion/
	14:10, 11 February 2006	1,000 × 720 (589 bytes)	Jeltz~commonswiki	version without all the metadata