Ukrainian designers unveil website for accurate reproduction of national flag's official colors
The website prapor.ukr makes it possible to reproduce the official colors of the national flag correctly.
Rubryka reports that creative manager Andrii Shevchuk and designer Ivan Verhun implemented the project.
What is the problem?
The idea arose after Andrii Shevchuk published a post on social media asking whether Ukrainians know precisely the colors of the national flag. The post went viral and received many likes and shares.
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What is the solution?
The publicity of the post prompted the designers to create the website prapor.ukr, with which you can reproduce the official colors of the national flag.
Do you see the colors of the national flag here? Photo: prapor.ukrр
How does it work?
The web resource was created for designers and illustrators who develop Ukrainian national identity. Thanks to the portal, they can easily find and reproduce the authentic colors of the Ukrainian flag, according to the standards.
The portal says that the Ukrainian flag is essential for the country's branding, especially in the context of Russia's war, when international media and companies began to actively support Ukraine.
Nowadays, many different images of the flag appear on the Internet. Prapor.ukr helps avoid ambiguities and use precisely the official shades of blue and yellow per national standards.
Background
The modern state flag of Ukraine is a banner of two equally sized horizontal stripes of blue and yellow colors. The ratio of the width of the flag to its length is 2:3.
Blue and yellow (gold) colors were used on the Kingdom of Rus' coat of arms in the 14th century. They were also used on the coats of arms of lands, princes, nobility, and cities of the Middle Ages and early modern times.
The modern blue-yellow flag was first publicly recorded on June 25, 1848, in Lviv, which Ukrainians of the Kingdom of Galicia and Volodymyr hoisted over the Lviv Town Hall as a national flag. After this incident, the blue-yellow flag gained more and more popularity among Ukrainians. After the revolution of 1905, it began to be used in Dnipro Ukraine, a central part of modern Ukraine.
In 1917-1921, during the Ukrainian Revolution, this flag was the state flag of the Ukrainian People's Republic and the Ukrainian State.
In 1938-1939, the blue-yellow flag was the flag of Carpathian Ukraine, and in 1941 of the Ukrainian State.
Later, during Soviet times, the blue-yellow flag was used underground. Its use in the USSR was punishable by two years in prison. In 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, this flag was de facto used as the state flag of independent Ukraine.
On September 18, 1991, the Presidium of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine legally established the blue-yellow bicolor as the official flag of the country. National Flag Day is celebrated annually in Ukraine on August 23.
Rubryka reported that at the auction in New York, the flag of Ukraine from front-line Bakhmut and the flag of the Hostomel community (Kyiv region) were sold for $500,000.
