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Pirate Party UK was founded in 2009. It is modeled after the
Swedish Pirate party and defines itself as a
radical centre party. It has been contesting the elections since 2010, having
gained no elected representation so far.
Source: Pirate Party UK at
Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party_UK
The party flag is
purple, with a white disk with black border at the hoist, charged with a black
sail on the mast, shaped so as to resemble letter P, and party name in white,
inscribed in two rows between the disc and the fly, word PIRATE in the top row
in larger letters than words PARTY UK in the bottom row. The shade of purple is
officially defined with the RGB values of either 102-0-102 or 153-0-153 [1],
however the available photos of the flag [2, 3, 4] reveal the color which looks
halfway between those two shades. The font used is officially defined as Alte
DIN 1451 [1].
image
by Tomislav Todorovic, 15 June 2017
Another party flag has white
field and black inscription [5]. Its status is not quite clear, but it shall be
noted that white and black are officially defined as the party colors together
with purple [1].
Prior to
2012, the party used turqouise color, shade varying, instead of purple an the
logo differed in the relative size of disc and inscription (smaller disc) and
text alignment (two rows aligned along the right edge instead of the left)
[4, 6]. The photos of items bearing this version of the design, once much
more numerous, have mostly disappeared from the Web so far; none of them was
showing any flags, though, so the design was probably not used for the flags,
or was used only extremely rarely.
Sources:
[1] Pirate Party UK
website - Design:
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/campaigns/activists/design
[2] Pirate Party UK website - News report from Birmingham on 2017-03-26:
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blogs/david-elston/pirates-hoist-colours-high-birmingham
[3] Facebook photo gallery of Pirate Party UK, London branch:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ppuklondon/photos/
[4] Pirate Party UK at
Facebook - Photo gallery from the 2012 party conference:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/piratepartyuk/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10151060977814211
[5] Pirate Party UK website - News report from Manchester on 2015-10-04:
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/field-report-pirate-bloc-tory-party-conference-demo-4102015
[6] Pirate Party UK at Facebook - Photo gallery from the 2011 party
conference:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/piratepartyuk/photos/?tab=album&album_id=10150119951994211
Images are derived from the SVG image of party logo which is available for
download from the party website:
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/campaigns/activists/design (image:
https://www.pirateparty.org.uk/sites/default/files/Official_Logo_PPUK.svg) .
Tomislav Todorovic, 15 June 2017
I think the monochrome version derives from the official party logo
registered with the Electoral Commission
(http://search.electoralcommission.org.uk/Registrations/PP770).
Such logos must be registered in order for them to appear on ballot papers, and
are always in black and white because these are not printed in colour.
John Cartledge, 9 July 2017