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image by António Martins-Tuválkin , 18 April 2024
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The Kingston Rowing Club (KRC) is a rowing club in England founded in
1858. See also
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingston_Rowing_Club
Its logo
consists of an image of a flying flag: a vertical triband of red and white
with the three initials of the club’s name on each panel, as serifless
capitals of the contrasting color.
The club’s official oars blade
(arguably a symbol of greater semaphoric significance for rowing clubs than
their flags) is crimson and the logo
https://www.kingstonrc.co.uk/themes/custom/canbury/images/krc-flag.svg
at the official website is accordingly dark red. This vectorial official
image was copied to illustrate the Wikipedia article on the club, to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kingston_Rowing_Club_Flag.svg
and it was met with preference for an apparently previous logo, still at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KRC_Flag.jpg (discussion at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/File:KRC_Flag.jpg),
the logo from the official website being deemed too dark, not reflecting the
"KRC colours", which are "scarlet". Either this commenter is wrong or there
was an official change from crimson to scarlet, or the website creators were
allowed artistic license. I could not find any photos of actual flags.
António Martins-Tuválkin , 18 April 2024
