White, with the “La vie en Vosges” logo: a blue “V” and the department as a brand. The council’s flag comes out of a 2009 tourism campaign.
Every fact about the flag, each with what it means.
Normal flagFIAV symbol: the form of the flag.
CivilFIAV symbol: who may fly the flag.YesIt carries the coat of arms on the cloth.The flag in the words of vexillology and heraldry.
It is a white rectangular field with a 2:3 ratio, with the logo of the department centred: a blue square with a white “V” and, to its right, the name of the department.
Each element and how many of the 1,390 flags in the catalogue carry it. In yellow, the rarest.
How it was born, how it has changed and what it means.
The flag of Vosges is a white field, with the logo of the department in the centre. It carries no arms and no coat of arms.
Vosges is a department of France. Its flag is not a coat of arms: it is a field carrying the graphic identity the institution uses as its brand.
No approval date is recorded. These are recent flags, tied to the institutional identity of the departmental councils.
Field
white.
Logo
the graphic identity of the departmental council.
No arms
there are no arms, crown or helm.
The logo carries “La vie en Vosges”, “life in the Vosges”. It is institutional advertising: a flag with a slogan has no precedent in classical heraldry.
The white “V” is cut out of a blue square, that is, it is a void, not a letter drawn on top. The figure is defined by what is left over.
The expression “la vie en Vosges” is a tourism and residential promotion slogan. The department pays for its own flag, and uses it to promote the territory.
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Flag image: Germenfer, Wikimedia Commons · CC0.
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