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Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
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De jure since 1995
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
De jure 1952-1995
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
Pro-independence; official measurements. Non-existent?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
De facto since 1995
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
De facto 1952-1995
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
Pro-independence, popular measurements.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
Theoretical first version: Cuban flag reversed.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
See also:
Concering the blue tone of the triangle in the Puerto Rican
flag, here are the three commonly used variations in the island:
Dark Blue: Former official tone (until 1995), still
substantially used by government and commerce and prefferred by
pro- U.S. groups.
"Sky" Blue: Current official tone, used in most
government buildings, substantial commercial use.
Politically used mostly by pro commonwealth and statehood
groups.
Light Blue: Preffered and widely used by pro- independence
groups.
Victor Quinones, 6 October 2000
Do these two last versions has indeed a darker shade of red,
as in the US flag, or do they use medium red, like in the flag of
Cuba?
António Martins, 27 December 2000
I am comparing the flag of Cuba with the flag of Puerto Rico, the flag of
Cuba has a blue field that is clearly an equilateral triangle.Here, the flag of Puerto Rica has a blue field that appears to be
isosceles with the two base angles greater than 60 degrees and extending into
the banner by a dimension equal to 4 stripes. Is this true or is this a
printing/drawing illusion?
If made according to legislation both flags should actually have the same
equilateral triangle at their hoist ... Despite this, the Puerto Rican
legislation is apparently ignored in practice, with the apex of the triangle (as
you point out and we illustrate) only extending the centre point of the flag?
Woodson Rainey, 15 July 2009
As far as I know, it's not entirely true. The triangle is indeed isosceles,
but with base angles smaller than 60 degrees.
Well, we had sort of a middle ground, not quite as far as in legislation, not
quite as limited as in usage. I've now drawn a new set of images from scratch
that does distinguish between the two: Three flags with isosceles triangles and
sky, dark and light blue, and three with equilateral triangles, with the same
blue colours.
I haven't seen anything resembling a construction sheet, so far, so I've used a
star size that approximates the star in the photograph of an actual flag on
welcome to Puerto Rico site (which photograph, unfortunately, isn't all that big).
The star is slightly smaller than the star in the drawing on
http://www.gobierno.pr/GPRPortal/Inicio/PuertoRico/Simbolos/Banderas/Bandera+de+Puerto+Rico.htm,
but I'm not too sure about that image, as it doesn't use an equilateral triangle.
I've used the same red on all images; we do have some questions about possible
difference, but as apparently no-one has the answers, I left it as it was for
now.
Though our page mentions several times that the original flag was sky blue, like
the Cuban flag, theoretically, the first flag would have been ocean blue instead,
as that was the colour of the Cuban flag at the
time, according to our Cuban pages. I've done a Cuban flag with the colours
reversed as well, and the ocean blue together with the equilateral triangle and
a length long enough to keep the hoist triangle at the hoist only, makes it the
best of the bunch, as far as I'm concerned. I expect the ideal design would be
with the length being such that an equilateral triangle reaches the exact
centre, but it probably has to be longer to give that impression while moving in
the wind.
The reference to
'www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/8070/flag.htm' [dead link] can now be found at
Reocities:
http://www.reocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/8070/flag.htm. I do wonder
about the "...is same as the Cuban, but the color stripes are inverted..." bit,
though, as this would seem to say that stripes should be white and red instead.
I wonder what the "meetings acts" actually say. Does anyone know where to find
the text of these minutes? The government page does quote it differently, but do
we trust that?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 November 2010
