Colours
Read from the flag itself, down to the exact shade.
- #cf142b
- #ffffff
Other flags with red or white or all of red and white at once.
How it is put together
Measured off the picture, the same way the colours were, not from anybody's description of it.
- a single-coloured ground
The fly edge and the foot are one colour, and the same one, whatever else is drawn on top of it.
What we know about it
Since 1 December 1932 the triskelion has been the island's official flag, based on the Manx coat of arms, whose own date is the 13th century. In Manx the three legs are known as ny tree cassyn. The symbol is anciently closely associated with Sicily (whose most ancient name, Trinacria, meant three-cornered in Greek) and it appeared on the Isle in the last third of that century, which may well be connected with the regime change of 1265, from Crovan to Scots kings. No evidence exists of the Crovan dynasty using the triskeles; members of it are known to have borne ships and lions on their seals.
Drafted from Flag of the Isle of Man 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.
Its day
The almanac keeps a page per day of the year that something is dated to. This flag is on one of them, with the sentence that says so.
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. Isle of Man is one of the flags in each of these.
The picture
- Licence
- CC0
- Drawn at
- 600 × 300
Credit Fry1989 eh?
From Flag of the Isle of Mann.svg on Wikimedia Commons.
Take the picture, as a drawing or as an image, with the licence and the credit above attached to it.
