File talk:Flag of Finland.svg

- but it appears this doesn't work on Wikipedia; there is a little icon to the right, inside the border... which happens because the border is being applied remotely from the Commons, and when the description of the image is imported into Wikipedia, it recognizes the image in the border as an external link and flags it appropriately. If the border is applied locally on Wikipedia, that icon should not appear.

Huh? w:Finland uses {{border|[[Image:Flag of Finland.svg|125px]]}} right at the top of the article, with no problem. User:dbenbenn 11:44, 3 February 2006 (UTC)

Shade of blue

Wikipedia article and Finlandia flaga wymiary.png says CMYK tones for Blue are C 100%, M 56% ,Y 0%, K 18.5%, but colors in this picture are C 100%, M 53%, Y 0, K 47% .

There are no official CMYK tones. The official blue color is Y = 5.86, x = 0.1856 and y = 0.1696 or L* = 29.06, a* = 7.24 and b* = -36.98 in CIE, 4060-R90B in NCS or 294C in PMS.[1]. Translating these accurately to RGB or CMYK seems to be more or less impossible. All you can do is an approximation, which may look wrong on another monitor. The white has not been defined, so I guess it is RGB(255,255,255). --Lakefall 14:57, 6 June 2008 (UTC)

Used colors:
white	rendered as RGB 255 255 255	Pantone 11-0601
blue	rendered as RGB 000 053 128	Pantone 294 (approx.)

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The cross is too fat. EJavanainen (talk) 10:03, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

IMHO it meets exactly the rules as in Flag of Finland (Construction sheet).svg; a skinnier example as Alkuperalippu.svg does not. sarang사랑 06:25, 5 June 2012 (UTC)

New Cat

I'm sorting Category SVG sovereign state flags alphabetically. Please edit cat tag to "Category SVG sovereign state flags|Finland" Fry1989 (talk) 23:39, 17 January 2011 (UTC)

 Done. --ZooFari 01:44, 18 January 2011 (UTC)

Description

{{Editprotect}} This should go in the second line of the description:

Svenska: Finlands flagga

Homo lupus (talk) 03:42, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

 Done. Trijnstel_talk 12:16, 21 April 2012 (UTC)

Simplification

Currently the flag is a Structured SVG with 3 SVG-rectangles (275 bytes). With 1 rect and 1 path it would need 231 bytes

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1800" height="1100">
<rect width="1800" height="1100" fill="#fff"/>
<path stroke-width="300" stroke="#003580" d="m650,0v1100m1150-550H0"/>
</svg>

sarang♥사랑 06:41, 29 September 2012 (UTC)

Code optimization

It’s possible to optimize the code of this file:

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 18 11" width="1800" height="1100">
<path d="M0,0H18V11H0" fill="#fff"/>
<path d="M0,4H5V0H8V4H18V7H8V11H5V7H0z" fill="#003580"/>
</svg>

It takes 201 bytes only (with LF line endings).

Valtlait (talk) 19:14, 10 May 2015 (UTC)

The blue shade

I know this has been discussed before, but according to the very law that defines this flag, the closest Pantone approximation to the shade of blue used is 294 C, which in RGB is #002F6C (according to their website). Should the existing color be changed to that? SURJECTION _{·talk·contr·log·} 22:24, 17 July 2018 (UTC)

{{Edit request}}

Yes, the shade of blue is incorrect. It should be changed to #002F6C.

Reference:

https://intermin.fi/en/flag-and-arms/about-the-flag

https://encycolorpedia.com/002f6c

--Ryebreadforscale (talk) 20:27, 30 March 2022 (UTC)

Here is the corrected SVG markup:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1800" height="1100">

<rect width="1800" height="1100" fill="#fff"/>

<rect width="1800" height="300" y="400" fill="#002F6C"/>

<rect width="300" height="1100" x="500" fill="#002F6C"/>

</svg>

--Ryebreadforscale (talk) 11:12, 4 May 2022 (UTC)

 Done 4nn1l2 (talk) 11:20, 8 May 2022 (UTC)

Categories

{{Edit request}} This should go in Category:National flag of Finland. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.173.239.113 (talk) 09:46, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

 Done --Majora (talk) 03:12, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Size

Recommended sizes: The document size (width and height) causes how an image is displayed when viewed by itself.

While a size too small may hide essential details, a size too large requires scrolling to see the entire image.

A good choice are values not exceeding a width of 600 and a height of 400

In 2007, Pudeo enlarged it to a crazy width of 1800 – causing troubles to see it. It seems much better to have the flag with 180 × 110, may be also 540 × 330 but not more than 720 × 440.

Instead of

May 2022 code

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1800" height="1100">
<rect width="1800" height="1100" fill="#fff"/>
<rect width="1800" height="300" y="400" fill="#002F6C"/>
<rect width="300" height="1100" x="500" fill="#002F6C"/>
</svg>

(257 bytes)

it should be

180×110 code

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="180" height="110">
<path fill="#002F6C" d="M0,0h180v110H0"/>
<path fill="#FFF" d="M40,0H0V40H40m0,30H0v40H40M180,0H70V40H180m0,30H70v40h110"/>
</svg>

(235 bytes)

reduceable to

Stroked code

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="180" height="110">
<path fill="#FFF" d="m0,0h180v110H0"/>
<path stroke="#002F6C" stroke-width="30" d="m65,0v110M0,55h180"/>
</svg>

(199 bytes)

or smallest

Pathed code

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="180" height="110">
<path fill="#FFF" d="m0,0h180v110H0"/>
<path fill="#002F6C" d="M40,0V110h30V0M0,70h180V40H0"/>
</svg>

(189 bytes)

With a size of only 18 × 11 it looks

18 × 11 code

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="18" height="11">
<path fill="#FFF" d="m0,0h18v11H0"/>
<path fill="#002F6C" d="M4,0V11H7V0M0,7H18V4H0"/>
</svg>

(179 bytes)

All these flags have a relation of 18:11 with the colors "#FFF" and "#002F6C". -- sarang♥사랑 05:59, 16 May 2022 (UTC)

Havent checked all of these but at least the pathed markup has incorrect dimensions.

I dont see it reasonable to promote markup that isnt as readily human-readable for the sake of a few bytes especially as we can see in this case the markup is incorrect in the first place.

I reverted the edit of the file page with the promotion of incorrect markup.

--Ryebreadforscale (talk) 07:25, 19 May 2022 (UTC)

New implementation

{{Editrequest}} I made a reimplementation for this image, the blue cross is made by path element, makeing image much more smaller.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="1800" height="1100" viewBox="0 0 18 11">
<rect width="18" height="11" fill="#fff"/>
<path d="M0,5.5h18M6.5,0v11" stroke="#002F6C" stroke-width="3"/>
</svg>

-- Great Brightstar (talk) 11:57, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

•  Done —‍Mdaniels5757 (talk • contribs) 19:15, 20 February 2023 (UTC)