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For a red leaf icon matching Liberal Party of Canada colours see: Maple leaf -- Liberal.svg

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  Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg
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Flag and National Symbols Ordinance 2016

The TCI government released an ordinance pertaining to the flag in 2016. Full title is Turks and Caicos Islands Flag and National Symbols (Regulation) Ordinance 2016. The ordinance can be viewed in flash or jpeg (pick your favorite!). [1] or [2].
Page 12 of the the ordinance includes the following:

• A description of the flag (in English).
• An image of the flag.
• 10 coloured squares showing the colors of the flag. Each coloured square is conveniently labelled with an RGB value.

The image of the flag in the ordinance is slightly blurry, but it is good enough to see that it is an exact match to the 2006-02-24 version of File:Flag of the Turks and Caicos Islands.svg uploaded to Wikimedia 10 years earlier by Denelson83.
A less blurry version of the same image appears in PNG format at the top of the TCI Attorney General web site [3] [4].
The image in the ordinance, and the image on the website both include:

• a shield that is larger than the one depicted on the 1968 flag.
• a white border around the shield
• thin black lines inside and outside the white border

The ordinance has several annoyances:

• The label "Pantone colours" appears above the colour squares, but official Pantone colour codes are nowhere to be found in the ordinance.
• RGB values for the two shades of pink are shown with only 2 bytes; the 3rd byte representing blue level is missing. However, the values can ascertained by peeking at at the labelled color squares for the coat of arms which appears on the next page of the ordinance.
• Colors used in the image of the flag do not quite match the RGB values shown beside the coloured squares.
• The description states clearly that the shield should fit into an imaginary circle with a diameter equal to 4/9 of the hoist width. The shield shown in the image (with or without its border) is larger than the imaginary circle! I did some measurements and found that the shield in the image (including the border) is a very close fit to a circle with diameter 1/2 of the hoist width.

Notes:

1. The shield from the original 1968 flag does fit into an imaginary circle with diameter 4/9 of the hoist width.
2. There are several sources on the web that state that the larger shield with its white border was introduced in 1999.
3. The TCI government website does not show records from years prior to 2014, so it is not clear if the changes were the result of a government initiative or if they were due to clip art mutations on the Internet.

Given that the text in the ordinance and the image conflict with each other, we must choose between one or the other. I personally believe the image is more likely to reflect the intention of the 2016 ordinance; I suspect that nobody in the 2016 government paid much attention to the text and nobody bothered to draw an imaginary circle.

MapGrid (talk) 02:12, 16 February 2019 (UTC)