File talk:Flag of Ukraine (fair blue).svg

Color accuracy in historical Ukrainian flag representations

There have been several edits to this file that are being reversed by user Ιγκόр without any explanation. The reason behind this is that user Ιγκόр himself decided to identify a correct shade of fair blue to use on this flag, based on faded pictures and drawings. However, this shade does not correspond to any "yellow sky-blue" (жовто-блакитний) flags actually used by Ukrainians or any actual historical flags.

There are many examples of the color blue being inaccurately reflected in various historical images or fading over time, distorting the original shade. Here are a few examples with the national colors of Sweden, which are blue and yellow as well:

File:Stamp of Ajman - 1971 - Colnect 491891 - Sweden Scout.jpeg

File:AM.010377 (01).jpg

File:Flags 1935 German Flags Closeup.JPG

File:Skibsflaget fra Mariakirken i Lübeck.png

This does not mean that we should choose an exact shade of faded, contrastless blue and yellow from a picture over 100 years old and directly create a HEX/RGB code from that picture using an eyedropper. This would be more than inaccurate.

Can we come up with an adequate set of contrast colors for every flag where this combination is used? I can see that many historical Ukrainian SVG flags have already been chaotically altered to this color combination, and in most cases that doesn't make any sense. EricLewan (talk) 17:16, 1 March 2024 (UTC)