Colors of Bangladesh – in Joy and with Glory

People of Bangladesh are bit more enthusiast about their national colors and symbols of nationalist glory – partly because they are experiencing new wave of patriotism and partly because Bengali people are always enthusiast about good things; so am I. Yet, it happens to be true that, prescribed use of national color, flag and emblems are always not clear to everyone. Hence, on this post on the eve of Victory Day – a flag day of Bangladesh, I’m going to brief some points about our things.

National Colors

Although not legislatively established, it is generally held that green and red are the colors of Bangladesh because they are on the national flag. According to “People’s Republic of Bangladesh Flag Rules, 1972” (rev 2005):

The ‘National Flag’ will be in bottle green and rectangular in size in the proportion of length to width 10: 6 bearing a red circle on the body of the green.

followed by,

3-I (a): The green base of the flag will be of Procion Brilliant Green H-2RS 50 parts per 1000.
3-I (b): The red circular part will be of Procion Brilliant Orange H-2RS 60 parts per 1000.

As Procion (a brand of reactive colors) can not commonly be attained in digital media, common maps for these colors are:

Color as per Constitution	Color name in rule book	Color described (parts per 1000)	CMYK	Pantone	RGB (web color)	HSB
Green	Bottle Green	Procion Brilliant Green H-2RS 50	100-0-70-40	Pantone 342c	#006a4e	165° 100% 45%
Red	Red	Procion Brilliant Orange H-2RS 60	0-100-80-5	No Pantone given	#f42a41	351° 89% 88%

National flag has a construct as described:

3-IV (a): When the length of the ‘Flag’ is 10′ its width will be 6′.
3-IV (b): The radius of the red circle in the ‘Flag’ will be 2′.
3-IV (c): Draw a perpendicular on 4½’ from the left hand of the length of the ‘Flag’ and a horizontal line from the middle of its width.
3-IV (d): The Centre of the red circle will be at the point of intersection of these two lines.