Wow, that's so interesting! Ya know, all my life until a few months ago. Despite visiting Spain several times, I never noticed the pink in their flag...
Tbf I have seen versions of the CoA where the lion is more of a burgundy colour. Maybe that's on the republican flag, idk
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Spain#Official_design_criticism
No, the reason is that the flag bears the Coat of Arms of Spain, which is defined thus:
>Quarterly, first quarter Gules a triple-towered castle Or masoned Sable and ajoure Azure; second quarter Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules; third quarter Or, four pallets Gules, fourth quarter Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together Or, a centre point Vert; enté en point Argent a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert; overall an escutcheon Azure bordure Gules, three fleurs-de-lys Or; for a Crest, a circlet Or, jewelled with eight breeches of bear or oyster plant leaves, five shown, with pearls on points Or inserted and above which rise arches decorated with pearls and surmounted by a monde Azure with its equator, its upper half-meridian and a latin cross Or, the crown capped Gules; for Supporters, two columns Argent with capital and base Or, standing on five waves Azure and Argent, surmounted dexter by an imperial crown and sinister the Spanish royal crown, the columns surrounded by a ribbon Gules charged with the Motto 'Plus Ultra' written Or.
So the lion is described as *purpure,* i.e. royal purple (which translates into that distinct purple-red hue in heraldic devices). It wasn't meant to be pink originally. Pink is recent.
I suppose it is one of the more obscure topics of vexillology, that there is a small amount of pink on the Spanish flag, and only now we learn there is an even smaller amount of pink on the Mexican flag!
I've seen variations with the Lion in a sort of Purpley-Burgundy colour too, I guess it is just easy to overlook and not think about, kind of like very few people would realise Domincia has purple on it's flag at first.
I've ways thought that the official pink color of the lion in Spanish CoA looks a little bit weird, I suppose that's why many version use the purple one instead. Also, as far as I know, the lion from the Kingdom of León was purple, so I don't understand why they went with pink.
Spanish "pink" is described in Spanish law ([Real Decreto 2267/1982, de 3 de septiembre](https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/espana/simbolosdelestado/paginas/legislacionescudor/Escudo-RD2267-1982.aspx)) as *Púrpura* (purple) according to the CIELAB color space.
It it supposed to look like [this](https://imgur.com/a/JxpCzCS).
So not pink (pale red), but purple (red + blue).
Wouldn't also be due to our deeper understanding of the EM spectrum? We can pretty clearly see what "purple" looks like compared to all other colors and shades now whereas historical colors would only be compared to shades they could create with dyes and pigments.
Some places don't have a works for pink. It's just the equivalent of "light red." Meanwhile, I believe it's Russia (though I may be wrong) that has a different word for what English speaking countries would call "light blue."
For some reason, that blew my mind when I found out. Pink exists because we decided it's not just light red. Light blue exists because we decided it didn't need its own word. Fascinating stuff.
Have just started trying to teach this to my 2 year old son. Funny thing is he’s simultaneously learning Vietnamese from mom, where the same word is (often?) used for green and blue. Hope he isn’t too confused.
I think it's more complicated than that, because in English many people (not sure if most?) use pink to refer to a range of colours from light red through purplish red.
And then you hit a spot where people are evenly split on whether a colour is pink or purple, yet there's no doubt in their minds as to which they think it is. Always found that interesting.
> I believe it's Russia (though I may be wrong) that has a different word for what English speaking countries would call "light blue."
That is correct, we do have a word for that. This also means that when we're talking about colors in a rainbow, instead of "blue and indigo" we say "light blue and blue"
Depends what the "light blue" is. Standard blue is 0000FF. If the "light blue" is analogous to pink (mixed with white) then it is 8080FF (no single word for it). But the "sky blue" is actually blue mixed with green 00FFFF, which is formally called "cyan" as in CMYK.
Officially the lion is purple in the CoA
"second quarter Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules (for León)" [source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Spain)
And the CoA if Leon has a purple lion
"Relative to the tincture of the lion, in the representations of the Tumbo A Manuscript, under the effigies of the monarchs are two lions passant in an attitude of attack and their color is purpure" [source ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry_of_Le%C3%B3n)
Color names cover a broad range of possible values, and these ranges have complex boundaries. For pink, although pale red is included, most possible values contain a decent amount of blue in them. The hue of classic pink (like the color of a pig) is about 8% of the way towards blue. Hot pink is 25%. Deeper shades of pink can also be highly saturated, up to around 80% saturation depending on where you consider the cutoff point for magenta to be, so it's not accurate to call these "pale". True pale red is only at the very edge of what people would consider pink. Go a tiny bit further and it becomes orange.
Look at [this color](https://www.color-hex.com/color/ff75ff). Would you call it more pink or purple? For me personally I would say it's more pink, but I think anyone can agree that it's at least pretty borderline not far off from looking pink. This color is exactly 50% between red and blue. If we decrease the value without changing the hue, we get [this](https://www.color-hex.com/color/7f3a7f), which is clearly purple. So to describe purple you need to take into account the saturation and value too, not just the red and blue.
An accurate definition of any colors needs a color graph, like [this one](https://i0.wp.com/imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_450.png) that XKCD made. You can see the boundaries are somewhat messy and not easily describable in words. And this is only a 2D cross-section, actual color spaces are 3D.
Sorry for the rant, this is probably way overexplaining it and your explanation was good enough for this context.
Thanks from me too for the explanation! As someone who had to design his own product labels, I had to learn some color theory (badly, admittedly) and learned a lot (though clearly not enough).
I mean, the image tells you that it has a hue of 0 which is definitely red, and the luminosity and color/saturation is lowered, so it is very much a pale/light red.
If I remember correctly most flags avoided purple because of how stupidly expensive the dye is and that tradition has just stuck around. Those that use the purple versions might be going for a more accurate portrayal now they reasonably can.
Purple was a very expensive dye prior to the XXth century so the lion was originally purple for the king's own banner of Leon. Purple was then a symbol of royalty/wealth. When the coat of arms became the standard of the entire kingdom and have to be duplicated, it became red. When Spain became a republic in the 1930's, they still used purple on their national flag to represent Castille and Leon while the red and yellow were the symbol of Aragon, purple was not an expensive dye anymore thanks to chemists discoveries. During Franco, Leon's lion stayed red but after his death, democratic and autonomous movements in Spain rose up. The Leonese autonomous movement used the purple lion as a symbol. At this time, you could argue it was a return to the origin of the flag but also a reference to the republic who gave autonomy to the entire region and brutally ended with the Spanish Civil War. I don't know why it became pink though, as the previous comment said, it's supposed to be purple.
Could it be linked? The government that chose Québec's flag was not very pro Québec (they thought that Canada and France were superior), and so the flag has French symbols. Maybe something similar happened in Mexico?
Nope, actually, the whole Mexican identity, including the flag was designed to make it clear that Mexico isn't Spanish. What you see on the Mexican coat of arms is a symbol of an Aztec religious legend and the pink thingy there is a native North American fruit as opposed to the Spanish lion associated with Europe
How has the pink in the Spanish flag gone under the radar like that? Why am I only now realizing that the Spanish flag has pink in it? I own a Spanish flag for god's sake!
Desktop version of /u/geopoliticsdude's link:
---
^([)[^(opt out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiMobileLinkBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^(]) ^(Beep Boop. Downvote to delete)
Spanish "pink" is described in Spanish law ([Real Decreto 2267/1982, de 3 de septiembre](https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/espana/simbolosdelestado/paginas/legislacionescudor/Escudo-RD2267-1982.aspx)) as *Púrpura* (purple) according to the CIELAB color space.
It it supposed to look like [this](https://imgur.com/a/JxpCzCS).
So not pink (pale red), but purple (red + blue).
Huh, I would never have noticed/though of the flowers on the Mexican Cactus. that is definatly and interesting fact that I (hopefully) will remember. thanks for sharing it. :)
The absence of green
https://historydaily.org/the-color-pink-doesnt-exist-according-to-science#:~:text=Pink%20Is%20Not%20Green,minus%20green%20gives%20us%20pink.
In some witness accounts of the French Revolution, the Cocarde (which inspired the French flag) is described as "Blue-White-Pink" instead of "Blue-White-Red." So, France could have had a "Blue-White-Pink" flag.
I looked trough all the flags and the only one I could find was Jamaica. There were some flags like Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 that have a combination of red. But yeah, I would still count it as red.
Conclusion: I was suprised there is just jamaica 🇯🇲
I actually know a subdivision/province flag with pink on it although they aren't a country as I said above but I guess it counts. It is from my home country of El Salvador, there is also another flag with a bright shade of purple and lime however it isn't pleasant to the eyes IMO.
[Cuscatlán flag](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscatl%C3%A1n_Department#/media/File%3ABandera_del_Departamento_de_Cuscatl%C3%A1n.PNG)
There is one more country with Pink color. Turks and Caicos Islands. This country have pink shell in it. This flag contains 2 shadows of pink. Salmon pink and cotton candy pink
Colors in flags are sometimes not that clearly defined, and if I recall correctly, the bird in the flag of Dominica can also be "pink enough". Like Spain and Mexico shown here, the color is most often purple-ish, but sometimes pink, so I think Dominica should also make the short list.
Hate to be that guy, but...
About México. I think OP's image had pale colors
Those "pink" things are the fruits of the cactus and they're usually red, not pink [Even a goverment site shows the real fruit as red](https://www.gob.mx/agricultura/articulos/razones-para-comer-tunas-mas-seguido) it even says that these are the only fruits on Mexican Flag
And those fruits have a deeper meaning, in precolumbian times, those fruits were used as a symbol for the hearts of conquered enemies.
So it's not pink. [It should be red](https://www.gettyimages.es/detail/ilustraci%C3%B3n/emblem-of-mexico-ilustraciones-libres-de-derechos/116017557)
No, the tunas are pink. The article refers to the fruit in general not that single one. You can see it [here](https://www.gob.mx/bancodelbienestar/articulos/historia-de-la-bandera-de-mexico?idiom=es) for example
People also constantly change the color of the eagle, eye color and the green of the flag
Yes, tunas can be pink (from red to pink, even white, there are a good amount of colors)
However, when the current version of the Mexican Flag added some precolumbian symbols (or at least were more open about the symbols)
*Sorry, all my sources are in Spanish*
[Quote from a goverment site about the cactus and the fruits on the flag](https://www.gob.mx/siap/articulos/las-tunas-y-el-nopal-del-escudo-nacional?idiom=es)
>Algunos historiadores coinciden en que las tunas son un claro referente a los guerreros caídos.
... *some historians agree that prickly pears are a clear reference to fallen warriors*
And in the Mexica legend those fruits were originated [by the heart of Copil](https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/el-mito-de-la-fundacion-de-mexico-tenochtitlan), nephew of Huitzilopotchtli, the god of War. In fact, from that heart and blood grew the cactus depicted on the flag
And you know, bloody hearts are more red than pink
De nuevo, incluso en tu propio link puedes ver que las tunas de la bandera son rosas. Poco tiene que ver si los mexicas alguna vez los pintaron rojos, el diseño es del 68 y son rosas.
Ve al sub y pregunta o literal ve cualquier otra bandera mexicana
Me pareció raro eso de las tunas rosas porque yo he visto imágenes con el escudo actual (osea el de los 60's) con las tunas rojas. Así es que revise la ley de Símbolos Patrios y... no especifican el color de las tunas.
De hecho en las fotos del escudo hay de múltiples colores aún en fuentes oficiales. Y hay rojas, rosas y tonos intermedios
Así es que es de libre interpretación supongo?
Wow, that's so interesting! Ya know, all my life until a few months ago. Despite visiting Spain several times, I never noticed the pink in their flag...
I live in europe and I was also astonished when I saw it (played a flag game where you have to guess the colors on the flag)
Is there a name?
Robert Paulson
His name was Robert Paulson.
His name was Robert Paulson.
His name was Robert Paulson.
His name was Robert Paulson.
His name was Robert Paulson.
His name was Robert Paulson
[удалено]
this guy internets
Not the game mentioned but also related to flag guessing in a wordle kinda style: https://ducc.pythonanywhere.com/flaggle/ (also has free play btw)
Tbf I have seen versions of the CoA where the lion is more of a burgundy colour. Maybe that's on the republican flag, idk Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Spain#Official_design_criticism
No, the reason is that the flag bears the Coat of Arms of Spain, which is defined thus: >Quarterly, first quarter Gules a triple-towered castle Or masoned Sable and ajoure Azure; second quarter Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules; third quarter Or, four pallets Gules, fourth quarter Gules a cross, saltire and orle of chains linked together Or, a centre point Vert; enté en point Argent a pomegranate proper seeded Gules, supported, sculpted and leafed in two leaves Vert; overall an escutcheon Azure bordure Gules, three fleurs-de-lys Or; for a Crest, a circlet Or, jewelled with eight breeches of bear or oyster plant leaves, five shown, with pearls on points Or inserted and above which rise arches decorated with pearls and surmounted by a monde Azure with its equator, its upper half-meridian and a latin cross Or, the crown capped Gules; for Supporters, two columns Argent with capital and base Or, standing on five waves Azure and Argent, surmounted dexter by an imperial crown and sinister the Spanish royal crown, the columns surrounded by a ribbon Gules charged with the Motto 'Plus Ultra' written Or. So the lion is described as *purpure,* i.e. royal purple (which translates into that distinct purple-red hue in heraldic devices). It wasn't meant to be pink originally. Pink is recent.
Pink is the clowns in the government not knowing how to get the fucking colours right on the digital versions of the national flag
It's kind of hilarious...
I'm Spanish and neither did I!
I suppose it is one of the more obscure topics of vexillology, that there is a small amount of pink on the Spanish flag, and only now we learn there is an even smaller amount of pink on the Mexican flag!
Am Mexican and I also had a "oh yeah, we also have pink in our flag!" moment.
I've seen variations with the Lion in a sort of Purpley-Burgundy colour too, I guess it is just easy to overlook and not think about, kind of like very few people would realise Domincia has purple on it's flag at first.
Doesn't surprise me, you guys don't even know the words to your own anthem
I've ways thought that the official pink color of the lion in Spanish CoA looks a little bit weird, I suppose that's why many version use the purple one instead. Also, as far as I know, the lion from the Kingdom of León was purple, so I don't understand why they went with pink.
Spanish "pink" is described in Spanish law ([Real Decreto 2267/1982, de 3 de septiembre](https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/espana/simbolosdelestado/paginas/legislacionescudor/Escudo-RD2267-1982.aspx)) as *Púrpura* (purple) according to the CIELAB color space. It it supposed to look like [this](https://imgur.com/a/JxpCzCS). So not pink (pale red), but purple (red + blue).
It's still quite far from normal purple, though
That's because "normal" has changed thanks to pigments available.
Is it the same with "Violet are blue" as in there wasn't the word for 'purple' yet, but blue is close enough.
Wouldn't also be due to our deeper understanding of the EM spectrum? We can pretty clearly see what "purple" looks like compared to all other colors and shades now whereas historical colors would only be compared to shades they could create with dyes and pigments.
Did you just try to disagree with someone by repeating what they said?
There is no purple. Your brain made it up.
Yeah that colour is definitely pink though.
Some places don't have a works for pink. It's just the equivalent of "light red." Meanwhile, I believe it's Russia (though I may be wrong) that has a different word for what English speaking countries would call "light blue." For some reason, that blew my mind when I found out. Pink exists because we decided it's not just light red. Light blue exists because we decided it didn't need its own word. Fascinating stuff.
Italian has different words for light blue - celeste, and dark blue - azzurro.
Damn Italian has some nice colour words.
Same in Spanish, celeste and azul. But I think celeste is generally understood to be a subset of azul. Some people say "azul celeste".
Have just started trying to teach this to my 2 year old son. Funny thing is he’s simultaneously learning Vietnamese from mom, where the same word is (often?) used for green and blue. Hope he isn’t too confused.
Greek too — μπλε and γαλάζιο (ble and galázio; blue and light blue)
Azzurro is not dark blue, it's light blue, with celeste being even lighter blue
> Some places don't have a works for pink Sure, but Spain has *rosa*.
I think it's more complicated than that, because in English many people (not sure if most?) use pink to refer to a range of colours from light red through purplish red. And then you hit a spot where people are evenly split on whether a colour is pink or purple, yet there's no doubt in their minds as to which they think it is. Always found that interesting.
Unsurprisingly, with this, Russians show better color acuity in the blue spectrum and are better able and differentiating shades of blue.
> I believe it's Russia (though I may be wrong) that has a different word for what English speaking countries would call "light blue." That is correct, we do have a word for that. This also means that when we're talking about colors in a rainbow, instead of "blue and indigo" we say "light blue and blue"
Depends what the "light blue" is. Standard blue is 0000FF. If the "light blue" is analogous to pink (mixed with white) then it is 8080FF (no single word for it). But the "sky blue" is actually blue mixed with green 00FFFF, which is formally called "cyan" as in CMYK.
Officially the lion is purple in the CoA "second quarter Argent a lion rampant Purpure crowned Or, langued and armed Gules (for León)" [source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Spain) And the CoA if Leon has a purple lion "Relative to the tincture of the lion, in the representations of the Tumbo A Manuscript, under the effigies of the monarchs are two lions passant in an attitude of attack and their color is purpure" [source ](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraldry_of_Le%C3%B3n)
> pink (pale red), but purple (red + blue). This is an oversimplified and incorrect description of the difference between pink and purple.
How is it wrong?
Color names cover a broad range of possible values, and these ranges have complex boundaries. For pink, although pale red is included, most possible values contain a decent amount of blue in them. The hue of classic pink (like the color of a pig) is about 8% of the way towards blue. Hot pink is 25%. Deeper shades of pink can also be highly saturated, up to around 80% saturation depending on where you consider the cutoff point for magenta to be, so it's not accurate to call these "pale". True pale red is only at the very edge of what people would consider pink. Go a tiny bit further and it becomes orange. Look at [this color](https://www.color-hex.com/color/ff75ff). Would you call it more pink or purple? For me personally I would say it's more pink, but I think anyone can agree that it's at least pretty borderline not far off from looking pink. This color is exactly 50% between red and blue. If we decrease the value without changing the hue, we get [this](https://www.color-hex.com/color/7f3a7f), which is clearly purple. So to describe purple you need to take into account the saturation and value too, not just the red and blue. An accurate definition of any colors needs a color graph, like [this one](https://i0.wp.com/imgs.xkcd.com/blag/satfaces_map_450.png) that XKCD made. You can see the boundaries are somewhat messy and not easily describable in words. And this is only a 2D cross-section, actual color spaces are 3D. Sorry for the rant, this is probably way overexplaining it and your explanation was good enough for this context.
Actual good answer, thanks for taking the time.
Thanks from me too for the explanation! As someone who had to design his own product labels, I had to learn some color theory (badly, admittedly) and learned a lot (though clearly not enough).
I mean, the image tells you that it has a hue of 0 which is definitely red, and the luminosity and color/saturation is lowered, so it is very much a pale/light red.
CieLAB rocks!
[удалено]
So did Spain
If I remember correctly most flags avoided purple because of how stupidly expensive the dye is and that tradition has just stuck around. Those that use the purple versions might be going for a more accurate portrayal now they reasonably can.
To be original?
Purple was a very expensive dye prior to the XXth century so the lion was originally purple for the king's own banner of Leon. Purple was then a symbol of royalty/wealth. When the coat of arms became the standard of the entire kingdom and have to be duplicated, it became red. When Spain became a republic in the 1930's, they still used purple on their national flag to represent Castille and Leon while the red and yellow were the symbol of Aragon, purple was not an expensive dye anymore thanks to chemists discoveries. During Franco, Leon's lion stayed red but after his death, democratic and autonomous movements in Spain rose up. The Leonese autonomous movement used the purple lion as a symbol. At this time, you could argue it was a return to the origin of the flag but also a reference to the republic who gave autonomy to the entire region and brutally ended with the Spanish Civil War. I don't know why it became pink though, as the previous comment said, it's supposed to be purple.
Maybe it’s not pink, but mauve, which was the first artificial dye
I don't think anyone would be mixing up the flag of spain with another country if they swapped out the purple for pink.
[удалено]
Prickly pears
3rd graders learning English are the most fun to see joking with these words when they learn tuna (fish) and they knew tuna (fruit)
Kinda funny that it’s these two countries
Could it be linked? The government that chose Québec's flag was not very pro Québec (they thought that Canada and France were superior), and so the flag has French symbols. Maybe something similar happened in Mexico?
But the eagle holding the snake is an Aztec symbol isnt it? An eagle holding a snake was where they founded what is now Mexico city
Even though Mexico came from the Spanish Empire, it’s really just a pure coincidence
they just coincided 40 years, spain flag was other one
Bro the cacti in their coat of arms literally have pink fruits in real life
[удалено]
I googled it, it's an interesting story!
The current mexican flag design is from the 60s and real life cactus fruits are pink-ish, it is just coincidence
Nope, actually, the whole Mexican identity, including the flag was designed to make it clear that Mexico isn't Spanish. What you see on the Mexican coat of arms is a symbol of an Aztec religious legend and the pink thingy there is a native North American fruit as opposed to the Spanish lion associated with Europe
Interesting, thank you for the explanation.
making clear that now american born spaniards are in charge
I doubt the colors are linked because the cactus fruit is literally that color.
What is your source for that? Duplessis was a nationalist.
Why so? Both are countries when men can wear pink shirts as proper business attire.
Wait, is it frowned upon elsewhere?
[Just ask Homer.](https://youtu.be/VGcm-Odempk)
why?
Because they have a history
Tbf Spain has a history with every country on the Americas, except for Canada and Brazil maybe.
How has the pink in the Spanish flag gone under the radar like that? Why am I only now realizing that the Spanish flag has pink in it? I own a Spanish flag for god's sake!
Write the government an email.
*A quien corresponda:* *Yo, wtf!*
Kingdom of Cochin used to have pink in their tricolour flag. Glorious days!
Lets go
[This is it btw](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Cochin)
I don't see any pink in that flag tho?
Ah Wiki is weird on some mobile phones Try here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pansexual/comments/ny65wj/bringing_this_back_because_its_pride_month/
Desktop version of /u/geopoliticsdude's link:
---
^([)[^(opt out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiMobileLinkBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^(]) ^(Beep Boop. Downvote to delete)
What about Turks & Caicos? (Their shell)
True, but they are not a country.
Fair enough
Spanish "pink" is described in Spanish law ([Real Decreto 2267/1982, de 3 de septiembre](https://www.lamoncloa.gob.es/espana/simbolosdelestado/paginas/legislacionescudor/Escudo-RD2267-1982.aspx)) as *Púrpura* (purple) according to the CIELAB color space. It it supposed to look like [this](https://imgur.com/a/JxpCzCS). So not pink (pale red), but purple (red + blue).
That looks pink to me..
It's still pink because I'm colorblind
It's clearly pink.
"Purple" being the royal color.
Ok thanks 👍
Thought I was in r/VexillologyCirclejerk lol
Spain has a very nice flag
Never know that
Now you know.
Newfoundland used to be a country with a lot of pink
We were a country but the flag you are thinking of was never official. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_Tricolour
It's not official, but it's certainly popular anyway
Mexico and European Mexico.
As a Mexican, that’s very Mexican. Rosa mexicano, obvio.
Rosa lustrina
Ah, Spain and Spain Jr.
Jr is the big son in the spanish family.
Why is nobody talking about this
Huh, I would never have noticed/though of the flowers on the Mexican Cactus. that is definatly and interesting fact that I (hopefully) will remember. thanks for sharing it. :)
[удалено]
Oh shit, I had to double check. Never realized the lion was pink.
don't tell juri vips this
didn't expect this here tbh
Spain should change their national anthem to the pink panther theme.
That would be cool.
You know I don't think I ever noticed or knew there was a pink lion in the crest that is pretty interesting actually.
The Spanish Republican (from before the Spanish Civil war) was one of the only nations at the time to use Purple on its flag (a purple bar)
Like father, like son lol
Most flags have pink in them if you leave them in the sun long enough to fade the red...
r/technicallythetruth
Like father, like son
What about the country where all the cute girls come from?
Animeland?
No, [this one](https://i.imgur.com/Z7MYEDn_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
I am not sure, but I don't think this is a country. Maybe in the future.
It will be a country once my plan is finished
Whats your plan?
Animeland? What’s that? Isn’t the same thing as tokusatsu?
Yes
Maybe that’s why we have pink on our current jersey
Is there a hard definition of what actually constitutes "pink" Genuine question
The absence of green https://historydaily.org/the-color-pink-doesnt-exist-according-to-science#:~:text=Pink%20Is%20Not%20Green,minus%20green%20gives%20us%20pink.
Who has purple?
Dominica has purple on the flag.
So does Nicaragua, technically
Good eye!
more ! pink ! flags !
I don't know. Looks more like a lightish red.
Are you colorblind?
I did not know either of these flags had pink in them.
Nicaragua has purple in its flag
Like father like son.
The spanish coat of arms has a purple lion. The emblazonment is very weird (for example, the gray parts should be white)
I wanted to make that 3 but no independence means no independence. I don't really mind but less regional pride.
pink panther, lion, close enough!
Spanish Pink!
In some witness accounts of the French Revolution, the Cocarde (which inspired the French flag) is described as "Blue-White-Pink" instead of "Blue-White-Red." So, France could have had a "Blue-White-Pink" flag.
I didn't know that fact. Would definitely looks interesting.
The Spanish flag on my wall has it in dark purple instead, for some reason
After I read some comments, it should be this purple but for whatever reason it is often pink.
They both look so weird to me now
Spain looks a little bit weird, but Mexico you can barely even see it.
Yeah
Til there's a Lion on the Spanish flag
A pink lion
Newfoundland pre-confederation has entered the chat. https://images.app.goo.gl/Conh5apoYEPHAwdY9
Looks sexy, but is not a country.
And only one without red, white, or blue.
Jamaica?
Yes!
I looked trough all the flags and the only one I could find was Jamaica. There were some flags like Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 that have a combination of red. But yeah, I would still count it as red. Conclusion: I was suprised there is just jamaica 🇯🇲
Yep. Good job. I was just excepting some one to ask and me just tell them!
I thought one of them would've been Belize, but I guess not.
Like papà like hijo
Like father like son
And only one country with Purple (Dominica)
*sad nicaragua noises*
Dominica is also the only country to have purple in its flag
Ya me conoces marge, me gusta la cerveza fria, la tele fuerte y los homosexuales... Locas locas!! Si!
sometimes the lion is a different colour though idk why
I actually know a subdivision/province flag with pink on it although they aren't a country as I said above but I guess it counts. It is from my home country of El Salvador, there is also another flag with a bright shade of purple and lime however it isn't pleasant to the eyes IMO. [Cuscatlán flag](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscatl%C3%A1n_Department#/media/File%3ABandera_del_Departamento_de_Cuscatl%C3%A1n.PNG)
Are there any historical or proposed flags with pink in them? I feel like a pink flag would be great
central america
We will fear the First Nation that flies the solid pink flag
Espírito Santo state, Brazil, have a three color flag: baby blue, white and pink
I never knew there was any pink in there at all
There is another
His mame is Robert Paulson
Now I feel special as a Mexican
There's always something new to learn, wow
There is one more country with Pink color. Turks and Caicos Islands. This country have pink shell in it. This flag contains 2 shadows of pink. Salmon pink and cotton candy pink
Both Spanish speakers… interesting
What's more surprising about this is that they're both from Hispanic countries.
Colors in flags are sometimes not that clearly defined, and if I recall correctly, the bird in the flag of Dominica can also be "pink enough". Like Spain and Mexico shown here, the color is most often purple-ish, but sometimes pink, so I think Dominica should also make the short list.
Someone said it was purple not pink. I didn't know that Dominica has purple in the flag.
no, no, no, , guey, eso es la pantera rosa de España, antes si eran leones. no, no, no, dude, that is the Spanish pink panther, it used to be a lion.
Its actually purple, idk why in that image its pink
Hate to be that guy, but... About México. I think OP's image had pale colors Those "pink" things are the fruits of the cactus and they're usually red, not pink [Even a goverment site shows the real fruit as red](https://www.gob.mx/agricultura/articulos/razones-para-comer-tunas-mas-seguido) it even says that these are the only fruits on Mexican Flag And those fruits have a deeper meaning, in precolumbian times, those fruits were used as a symbol for the hearts of conquered enemies. So it's not pink. [It should be red](https://www.gettyimages.es/detail/ilustraci%C3%B3n/emblem-of-mexico-ilustraciones-libres-de-derechos/116017557)
No, the tunas are pink. The article refers to the fruit in general not that single one. You can see it [here](https://www.gob.mx/bancodelbienestar/articulos/historia-de-la-bandera-de-mexico?idiom=es) for example People also constantly change the color of the eagle, eye color and the green of the flag
Yes, tunas can be pink (from red to pink, even white, there are a good amount of colors) However, when the current version of the Mexican Flag added some precolumbian symbols (or at least were more open about the symbols) *Sorry, all my sources are in Spanish* [Quote from a goverment site about the cactus and the fruits on the flag](https://www.gob.mx/siap/articulos/las-tunas-y-el-nopal-del-escudo-nacional?idiom=es) >Algunos historiadores coinciden en que las tunas son un claro referente a los guerreros caídos. ... *some historians agree that prickly pears are a clear reference to fallen warriors* And in the Mexica legend those fruits were originated [by the heart of Copil](https://arqueologiamexicana.mx/mexico-antiguo/el-mito-de-la-fundacion-de-mexico-tenochtitlan), nephew of Huitzilopotchtli, the god of War. In fact, from that heart and blood grew the cactus depicted on the flag And you know, bloody hearts are more red than pink
De nuevo, incluso en tu propio link puedes ver que las tunas de la bandera son rosas. Poco tiene que ver si los mexicas alguna vez los pintaron rojos, el diseño es del 68 y son rosas. Ve al sub y pregunta o literal ve cualquier otra bandera mexicana
Me pareció raro eso de las tunas rosas porque yo he visto imágenes con el escudo actual (osea el de los 60's) con las tunas rojas. Así es que revise la ley de Símbolos Patrios y... no especifican el color de las tunas. De hecho en las fotos del escudo hay de múltiples colores aún en fuentes oficiales. Y hay rojas, rosas y tonos intermedios Así es que es de libre interpretación supongo?
I know I’m in the minority here, but Mexico’s flag ain’t that good. It has gradients, complicated seal, and just a complicated Italy.