This process required a small about of manual tweaking for colors on the border between green and blue. The flag was designed with inclusion in mind. The colors of the flag are meant to include the colors of the furs of animal bears throughout the world, not necessarily referring to human skin and hair color tones: Dark brown, orange/rust, golden yellow, tan, white, gray, and black. These 63 colors were then grouped into parent categories of white, black, red, blue, green and yellow using a simple algorithm to determine which parent color each shade most resembled. Craig Byrnes created the Bear pride flag in 1995. That reduced the number of distinct shades from 527 to 63. The flag comprises of a green field which represents the country’s vegetation. The flag was designed by Alwin Bully as the country prepared for independence. The current flag, which was adopted in November 1978, underwent small changes in 1981, 1988, and 1990. Because digital images are only approximations of the colors in the physical flags, we decided it was safe to further simplify these colors down to the traditional “web safe” palette of 216 possible colors. The flag of Dominica is one of the two flags with purple. In this page, you will find the community represented by each flag, a flag image, a summary of what each of the colors and symbols on the flag means, as well as the. This yielded 527 different shades across 36.6 million pixels. This page of resources is an exhausting list, compilation of information about the many pride flags that some in the LGBTQIA + community use. The complete code used to generate this data, which uses Mathematica 10, is available on the Wolfram Cloud.Īfter downloading the 196 flag images from, we added up the total number of pixels of each color. In perhaps the most famous example of two countries showing up somewhere wearing the same outfit, Liechtenstein and Haiti both arrived at the 1936 Olympics flying identical banners. The purple color symbolizes a mixture of both male and. Sometimes, it’s not just the colors that seem familiar. The yellow represents those who identify outside of the gender binary, while the white represents non-binary people with multiple genders.