Design
In the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany—the German constitution—Article 22 states: "The federal flag shall be black, red and gold." Following specifications set by the (West) German government in 1950, the flag displays three bars of equal width and has a width–length ratio of 3:5; the tricolour used during the Weimar Republic had a ratio of 2:3.
The exact colours used for the German flag were not officially defined at the time of the flag's adoption and have changed since then. The federal cabinet introduced a corporate design for the German government on 2 June 1999, which currently uses the following colours:
| Colour scheme | Black | Red | Gold | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RAL | 9005 Jet black |
3020 Traffic red |
1021 Cadmium yellow |
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| HKS | 0, 0, 0 | 5.0PB 3.0/12 | 6.0R 4.5/14 | |||
| CMYK | 0.0.0.100 | 0.100.100.0 | 0.12.100.5 | |||
| Pantone | Black | 485 | 7405* | |||
| HTML Hexadecimals | #000000 | #FF0000 | #FFCC00 | |||
| HTML Decimals | 0,0,0 | 255,0,0 | 255,204,0 | |||
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