Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #00267f
- #ffc726
- #000000
Other flags with blue, black or orange or all of blue, black and orange at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- 3 vertical bands
The foot changes colour going along, the fly edge does not, and every change is a straight line top to bottom.
What is on it
Each of these is what this flag's own Wikipedia article says is on it, the sentence is underneath, so you can see what it rests on.
- tridentthe only one here
A black trident head, commonly called the broken trident, is centred in the golden band, and the fact that the staff is missing is significant.
Flag of Barbados on Wikipedia
What we know about it
Grantley W. Prescod, an art teacher, won an open competition judged by seven individuals, with 1,029 entries; the flag was raised for the first time at midnight on 30 November 1966, the day Barbados became independent, by Lieutenant Hartley Dottin of the Barbados Regiment. Prescod also made the first physical flags, approximately seven, out of fabrics chosen at a department store, at the request of Prime Minister Errol Barrow. The three points of the trident stand for government of, for and by the people, and the missing staff for the break from colonial status.
Drafted from Flag of Barbados on Wikipedia, as it read on 2026-08-26, and checked back against it: every date, name and number above appears in the sentences it was written from. Nobody here wrote it by hand.
Nearest in the world
Every flag is compared with every other one, off the pictures themselves. Two copies of one picture score 0; these are the closest to this one. How that is measured.
Quiz yourself
Ten questions, played on the page, no sign-up and nothing kept. Barbados is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- Public domain
- Drawn at
- 1500 × 1000
Credit User:Denelson83
From Flag of Barbados.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
