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Contents 1 Notes of Restoration 2 Pantone colours 3 This flag svg format turns visually pink on some monitors 4 Right Color: Red

[edit] Notes of Restoration

There is no such state named "China" in the world, there exist only two states with "China" in their names: "People's Republic of China" (whose capital currently resides in Beijing) and "Republic of China" (whose capital currently resides in Taipei). Although the former is commonly referred as "China", and the latter is now commonly referred as "Taiwan", these abbreviations are never formal; nor are them appropriate for a reliable and trusted encyclopedia. Instead, they stir up disputes among people from both sides (in both PRC and ROC, or say in both Mainland China and Taiwan). Wikipedia should be sensitive to these matters and carefully maintain NPOV by avoiding referring PRC as China and ROC as Taiwan whenever possible. I think that Image:Flag of Peoples Republic of China.svg should be restored. --roc (talk at zh) 06:46, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Pantone colours

revert: Pantone colors are used for making real flags, not suitable for showing on the Web, some monitors especially LCDs can't show them correctly

This is not true, since when using Pantone colours here they are converted to hexadecimal (RGB) values. Pantone itself has provided these corresponding values in order to use Pantone colours in web design as well. They won't cause any more problems on monitors than other RGB shades would do, unless we are talking about monitors only capable of showing 256 colours or less, which will have problems everywhere these days. Was there any other reason for the revert? –Vzb83 17:46, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Vzb83, but only support their use if a source more reputable than vexilla-mundi.com is found. ¦ Reisio 20:48, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

According to FOTW, the flag institute recommends 032 C for red and 109 C for yellow when there is no official definition available. 109 C is extremely close to Vexilla mundi's recommendation but 032 C is somewhat lighter. Naturally it would be wonderful to find any official or even unofficial recommendation for the colours by the Chinese government. Meanwhile, I'd go with the Flag Institute's recommendations since it's a very reliable source. –Vzb83 11:44, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. :) That's at least a source...vexilla-mundi.com doesn't care about citing sources. :/ ¦ Reisio 12:27, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

I will not revert it anymore, after I talked to a member of FOTW. About the reason of why I reverted you image, I think you do not get my point, because my English is very poor and I can not describe it clearly - you will understand it if you use a LCD monitor that is very common, not professional one, and of course, it can show in 32bit "true color".

If you could read Chinese, you would see argues on several Chinese flag website about images does not looks correct that posted by LCD monitor users from Taiwan.--Kibinsky 09:04, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This flag svg format turns visually pink on some monitors

69.214.107.84 05:30, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

i am an artist who is intersted in having some custom flags made in china. does anyone know where i can find the official pantone color of the people's republic of china flag. particularly the communist red.

thanks, john parkerjohn@hotmail.com

If there were an official pantone color, we would almost certainly have it referenced here. See previous section. ¦ Reisio (talk) 02:56, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

I am not certain of the colors either, but I will try and ask around. The only thing I know is that the construction sheets are online. User:Zscout370 ^{(Return fire)} 23:40, 28 August 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Right Color: Red

At first, please see Flags by H.K.Gov.It's red.

Then please see the last photo at Flags by PRC Gov, we can see the flag is red, too.(Don't look at the first picture --- it's not right color).

At last please look at the National Emblem by PRC Gov, it's red too.

So, I changed it to red..Xiamipi (talk) 01:47, 15 June 2009 (UTC)

That reversion is intolerable as it breaks the consensus making incoherent a huge number of another images, like naval, party, coa, etc.

Hi User:Xiamipi! The colours #FFDE00 and #DE2910 were agreed upon through concensus to adhere to this webpage specifically dedicated to the PRC flag on the Central People's Government's official website. I have no doubt that other websites, such as the Hong Kong Government's website or non-government websites such as Flags of the World, vexillmundi, or the CIA World Factbook will depict the PRC flag (or any other nations flag) with different shades of colour, however I think (and through concensus, other editors also think) that the gov.cn page should be the basis of which shades are to be chosen here on Commons as it is the more authoritative. Regarding this picture, it is a photograph of a real physical flag, which is different from a computer graphic (which is of one shade being luminescent itself) as it is reflective of sunlight or other artificial lights with its apparent shade being drastically different under different angles and luminosities. Lastly, in regards to the emblem on gov.cn, that is another subject matter in that (to the best of my knowledge) there is currently no specification of the emblem having the same shade of colour as that of the national flag. Furthermore, the emblem you have chosen is displayed at the top left corner of the website, I would suggest that one should try to avoid using these navigational designs as a basis for creating a local file here at Commons, as these graphics tend to change with different webpage designs and webmasters, there main goal seems to be more decorative (perhaps to create an imposing and professional look), and often the "accuracy" is sacrificed. Compare the two emblems within view on this page, the top left one that you chose as evidence is quite different from the one depicted on the page specifically dedicated to the PRC national emblem. I have therefore reverted the changes. --Shibo77 02:30, 16 June 2009 (UTC)