Color
The shade of red used in the flag is not defined by law. Swiss government bodies have used various shades throughout history.
In 2007, the Federal Chancellery published a corporate design guide for the federal administration. That guide prescribed Pantone's CMYK value of PMS 485 (both magenta and yellow at 100 percent) for use in print, and a hexadecimal RGB color value of #FF0000 (red at 100 percent, no green or blue) for online use. The red color to the heraldry corresponds however, to the number of Pantone 032 C, which is in the red of the hexadecimal value of #F00000 RGB color space transposed.
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