Colours and Proportions
The "red" colour of the Latvian flag is in fact maroon, a particularly dark shade of red which is composed of brown and purple. It is sometimes referred to as Latvian red. The flag's colour proportions are 2:1:2 (the upper and lower red bands each being twice as wide as the central white band), and the ratio of the height of the flag to its width is fixed at 1:2.
| White | Maroon | |
|---|---|---|
| Pantone | White | 1807C |
| RGB | Red=255 Green=255 Blue=255 Hex=#FFFFFF |
Red=158 Green=27 Blue=52 Hex=#9e1b34 |
| CMYK | Cyan=0% Magenta=0% Yellow=0% Black=0% |
Cyan=25% Magenta=100% Yellow=77% Black=20% |
Read more about this topic: Flag Of Latvia
Famous quotes containing the words colours and, colours and/or proportions:
“The sounding cataract
Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock,
The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood,
Their colours and their forms, were then to me
An appetite: a feeling and a love,
That had no need of a remoter charm,
By thought supplied, or any interest
Unborrowed from the eye.—”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“In a borealic iceberg came Victoria; she
Knew Prince Albert’s tall memorial took the colours of the floreal
And the borealic iceberg;”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“... spinsterhood [is considered to be] an abnormality of small proportions and small consequence, something like an extra finger or two on the body, presumably of temporary duration, and never of any social significance.”
—Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842–1906)