Yttrium Fun Flag - Element 39 from Ytterby, Sweden

A fun flag for Yttrium based upon the flag of Sweden.  But on the inner shield the colours and pattern are reflective of Finland.  Reason being, the scientist who indeed found it was from Finland, Johan Gadolin.

Morse Code Flag for SOS - Save our Souls! or Save Our Ship!

SOS is the most known and popular prosign of Morse Code.  Coincidentally the letters for S and O both have three pulses.  The S has at three DOTS or rather, Dits.  And the O has three DASHES or rather, Dahs.  When represented by stars for Dits and Dahs for stripes, we have an elegant flag- the SOS flag.

The background colour is yellow while the DOTS and DASHES are black.  These colours are natural warning colours found in nature, as with the pattern of the wasp and bee, and some snakes and other venomous organisms. Thus this flag conveys a sense of urgency!

SOS officially means "Save Our Souls" but can stand for "Save Our Ship."

Morse Code Flag for the Letter Z - Zulu _ _ . .

The letter Z in Morse Code is a blue flag with white stars and stripes.  The pattern is based upon the order set in Morse Code.  The colours are also based upon the order found in the visible spectrum. 

Morse Code Flag for the Letter Y - Yankee

The Yankee Morse Code Flag is blue and red.  Some may say light blue or sky blue, but it is blue nonetheless.  The star and stripes are red.  The order of stripes and star is based upon the Morse Code pattern for the letter Y.  The three stripes are reflective of the three DASHES for the letter Y, while the one star is reflective of the one DOT.

The colours are based upon the numerical value for the ones place of the letter Y.  And the letter the Y is 25th number in the English Alphabet.  And 5 is the ones place value.  And 5 is set to a light colour blue.  Red is used because red is the set contrast indicator for light blue.

Morse Code Flag for the Letter X - X-Ray : _ . . _

The Morse Code Flag for the letter X has two stripes and two stars.  The order is reflective of the specific code for X which is related to DOTS and DASHES.  Since Morse Code Flags are always read downwards, it clearly spells out DASH, DOT, DOT, DASH, which is the letter X in Morse Code. 

The flag has a green background because the letter X is the 24th letter of the alphabet.  The number 4 is coded to green, because, green is the 4th colour of the rainbow/spectrum. Yellow is included because yellow is the contrast minority-indicator for a green background/field.  Also note that the tens place value for twenty-four is ignored.   Only the ones place value is used to set the main colour of the background, which for the letter X is 4, that is coded to green. Thus we have a dominantly green flag for the letter X in Morse Code. 

Morse Code Flag for the Letter W - Whiskey

The Morse Code Flag for the 23rd letter of the alphabet has a yellow background.  The reason being is that 3 is coded to the colour yellow.  The tens column number of 2 from 23 is ignored.  The star and stripes are blue because blue is the assigned contrast indicator for yellow. Additionally the stars and stripes are coded to DOTS and DASHES, which in this case reflects Morse Code for the letter W.

Morse Code Flag for the Letter V - Victor . . . _

The Morse Code Flag for the letter V has three stars, one stripe, and an orange background.  Morse Code Flags have the DOTS and DASHES coded to Stars and Stripes.  Thus this flag when read downwards reads the letter V in code.  It has an orange background because V is the 22nd letter in the alphabet.  The number 2 is coded to orange.

Coincidentally the Morse Code V flag is nearly a perfect invert of the Morse Code B Flag, the stars are below on B while above on V.  How strange?  This closeness is also reflected in the keyboard, whereby V and B are next to each other, and often lead to typos.  Additionally many non-native speakers of English easily get these two sounds confused.  And even if you are a native English speaker, the first time one speaks to new individual who says V or B, it is very easy to confuse.