Summary

DescriptionFlag of the United States.svg	The Flag of the United States of America. Current RGB colors and geometric specifications follow the "Design Guide" published in January 2017 by State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.[1]
Date	latest version follows color clarifications published in 2017. Earlier versions of the file go back to 11 September 2005.
Source	latest version is a clone of File:Flag of the United States (DoS ECA Color Standard).svg SVG implementation of U. S. Code: Title 4, Chapter 1, Section 1 [1] (the United States Federal "Flag Law").
Author	Many users contributed to the current and past versions of this file, including: Dbenbenn, Zscout370, Jacobolus, Indolences, Technion, TheTaraStark.
Other versions	DDD-F-416F specifications ("relative") (earlier version of this file) Pantone color specifications DoS ECA color standard (RGB) (identical to this file) Reduced file size
SVG development InfoField	The SVG code is valid.   This insignia was created with a text editor. It is easy to put a border around this insignia image : [[File:Flag of the United States.svg|border|96x176px]]
SVG code InfoField	Xml code <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="1235" height="650" viewBox="0 0 7410 3900"> <path d="M0,0h7410v3900H0" fill="#b31942"/> <path d="M0,450H7410m0,600H0m0,600H7410m0,600H0m0,600H7410m0,600H0" stroke="#FFF" stroke-width="300"/> <path d="M0,0h2964v2100H0" fill="#0a3161"/> <g fill="#FFF"> <g id="s18"> <g id="s9"> <g id="s5"> <g id="s4"> <path id="s" d="M247,90 317.534230,307.082039 132.873218,172.917961H361.126782L176.465770,307.082039z"/> <use xlink:href="#s" y="420"/> <use xlink:href="#s" y="840"/> <use xlink:href="#s" y="1260"/> </g> <use xlink:href="#s" y="1680"/> </g> <use xlink:href="#s4" x="247" y="210"/> </g> <use xlink:href="#s9" x="494"/> </g> <use xlink:href="#s18" x="988"/> <use xlink:href="#s9" x="1976"/> <use xlink:href="#s5" x="2470"/> </g> </svg>
Used colors InfoField	red (#b22234) rendered as RGB 178 034 052      white rendered as RGB 255 255 255      blue (#3c3b6e) rendered as RGB 060 059 110

Image notes

• The geometric specifications for the union jack and the sizes and positioning of the stars are given in an attachment to Executive Order 10834 of 21 August 1959, printed in 3 CFR, 1959–1963 Comp., p. 368. Also see File:US Flag spec TIOH 5-1-17 1967.jpg, the specification drawing from the Army Institute of Heraldry.
• The official colors are part of the Standard Color Reference of America, specifically Cable Nos. 75001 ("White")  , 70180 ("Old Glory Red")  , and 70075 ("Old Glory Blue")  . Colorimetric designations for these colors were precisely specified in a 1946 paper in JOSA. When the white point is taken to have the luminous reflectance of the flag’s white, these colors can be approximated on screen as  ,  , and  , respectively. The United State Department of State uses   (#FFFFFF),   (#B31942) and   (#0A3161) in RGB color. United States Department of State Identity and Marking Standards
• The current dimensions of the image (version of 00:43, 14 May 2008), 1235 × 650 pixels (which represents an aspect ratio of 1.9:1.0), were chosen to allow as much as possible of the final geometric manipulations to be performed using whole numbers, avoiding the need for scaling. (This also results in each stripe being 50 pixels high.)

Licensing

This image of a flag 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. For more information, see Commons:Threshold of originality § Logos and flags.

	This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States Government as part of that person’s official duties under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. Note: This only applies to original works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamp designs published by the United States Postal Service since 1978. (See § 313.6(C)(1) of Compendium of U.S. Copyright Office Practices). It also does not apply to certain US coins; see The US Mint Terms of Use.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

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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.

1. ↑ ECA Design Guidelines (PDF) (Report). Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Office of Public Affairs and Strategic Communications. January 2017. Retrieved 2023-01-21.