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Flag of Haute-Garonne, current and former versions - Image by Olivier Touzeau, 27 August 2020
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Code: 31
Region: Occitanie (Midi-Pyrénées until 2014)
Traditional provinces: Languedoc,
Guyenne and Gascony
Bordering departments: Ariège,
Aude, Gers,
Hautes-Pyrénées,
Tarn,
Tarn-et-Garonne
Bordering country: Spain (Autonomous
Community of Aragon, Province of
Huesca, and Autonomous Community of
Catalonia, Province of
Lleida)
Area: 6,309 km2
Population (2016): 1,348,183 inhabitants
Préfecture: Toulouse
Sous-préfectures: Murat, Saint-Gaudens
Subdivisions: 3 arrondissements, 27 cantons, 587 municipalities.
The department is named after river Garonne (650 km),
a tributary to the Atlantic Ocean.
On 4 November 1808, the cantons of Beaumont, Castelsarrasin, Grisolles, Montech, Saint-Nicolas, Verdun and Villebrumier were transferred from the department of Haute-Garonne to the new department of Tarn-et-Garonne.
Ivan Sache, 15 April 2019
The Departemental Council has been using since 2019 a blue flag with the Council's logo and beneath the words "Conseil départemental de la Haute-Garonne" (photo, photo.
The flag was introduced in 2018 with the words above the logo (photo,
photo,
photo).
The former General Council has been using since the 1990s
several versions of the logo, always with the same basic elements, the handwritten-style letters "HG" and a rainbow.
The new logotype was modernized to highlight the changes operated in
2015: a new presidency [Georges Méric succeeded Pierre Izard, President
since 1988], a new territorial project, and a new name - Conseil
départemental instead of Conseil général.
Rather than a revolution, the new logo is a natural evolution of the
former visual identity.
The new logotype highlights two main axes of the Department's public policy:
- the tail emphasizes the concept of territory; the Department's policy
is deployed on the whole territory;
- the speech balloon emphasizes the politic willingness to establish a
true, open dialogue with the citizens.
The essentials of the logotype have been kept. The colors and the
typographic signature "HG", for "Haute-Garonne", remain the major elements
that still offer to the logotype its strength and personality.
The cartouche is shaped like a speech balloon, representing exchange,
dialogue, proximity and listening, share.
The blue color was maintained as the historic color, but in a more
modern shade. Impact and legibility have been increased.
The rainbow colors have been re-used, evoking both the array of skills
and diversity and plurality, the person and the group.
The writing features the Department's name in reading's first level.
".FR" was integrated to represent modernity, service and proximity. The
typography was modernized, too.
The colors are specified as follows:
Pantone CMYK RGB HEX Blue 640 95 2O 25 0 0 120 155 00789b Rainbow Purple 2592 55 90 0 0 115 35 120 732378 Violet 2736 85 80 0 0 50 50 130 323282 Blue 2995 80 0 0 0 0 160 225 00A0E1 Green 382 40 0 100 0 165 190 0 A5BE00 Yellow 109 0 10 100 0 255 215 0 FFD700 Orange 144 0 55 100 0 230 115 0 E67300 Red 1787 0 80 58 0 220 60 70 DC3C46
The light blue shade used for ".FR" is 30% of blue.
[Graphic Charter, December 2015]
Olivier Touzeau & Ivan Sache, 27 August 2020
