[GH-ISSUE #980] Better Colours for the national flag of China (CN, CHN) #465

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opened 2026-03-03 14:38:34 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @angpng on GitHub (Jun 10, 2022).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/lipis/flag-icons/issues/980

According to some pages in Chinese Government Website and related files, the following are the correct colours:

Yellow: #FFFF00
Red: #EE1C25

See National Flag of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国旗), click the download button to download the standard edition of the flag. Then get colours from these files.

See National Flag (in English). But the JPEG file in this page was lossy compressed.

According to Regulations on the Party Emblem and Flag of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党党徽党旗条例) and the detailed production method of the flag of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团团旗制法说明), these flags have the same two colours:

Yellow: R255 G255 B0 #FFFF00
Red: R238 G28 B37 #EE1C25

Originally created by @angpng on GitHub (Jun 10, 2022). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/lipis/flag-icons/issues/980 According to some pages in Chinese Government Website and related files, the following are the correct colours: - Yellow: `#FFFF00` - Red: `#EE1C25` See [National Flag of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国国旗)](http://www.gov.cn/guoqing/guoqi/index.htm), click [the download button](http://www.gov.cn/guoqing/20201231/guoqi.zip) to download the standard edition of the flag. Then get colours from these files. See [National Flag](http://english.www.gov.cn/archive/chinaabc/202012/31/content_WS5feddf1bc6d0f72576943045.html) (in English). But the JPEG file in this page was lossy compressed. According to [Regulations on the Party Emblem and Flag of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党党徽党旗条例)](http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/2021-06/28/content_5621310.htm) and [the detailed production method of the flag of the Chinese Communist Youth League (中国共产主义青年团团旗制法说明)](http://qnzz.youth.cn/tqth/202108/t20210808_13157892.htm), these flags have the same two colours: - Yellow: R255 G255 B0 `#FFFF00` - Red: R238 G28 B37 `#EE1C25`