The geometric specifications for the union jack and the sizes and positioning of the stars are given in an attachment to Executive Order 10834 of 21 August 1959, printed in 3 CFR, 1959–1963 Comp., p. 368.
The current size of the image (version as of 04:42, 5 April 2007), 1235 × 650 pixels, represents an aspect ratio of 1.9:1.0. (These dimensions were chosen to allow as much as possible of the geometric manipulations to be performed using integer quantities without the need for scaling.)
Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision.
Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. Click on date to download the file or see the image uploaded on that date.
(del) (cur) 04:42, 5 April 2007 . . Technion . . 1235×650 (2,000 bytes) (Proposed simplified version written from scratch, derived directly from http://assembler.law.cornell.edu/uscode/html/uscode04/usc_sec_04_00000001----000-notes.html (should be geometrically identical))
(del) (rev) 23:08, 28 January 2006 . . Dbenbenn . . 1330×700 (2,315 bytes) (Previous version had a miscalculation--stars were shifted left by 0.02%, whoops! Also, this version now uses viewBox to have a reasonable default size.)
(del) (rev) 00:09, 29 November 2005 . . Dbenbenn . . 18525×9750 (2,856 bytes) (more precise version: stars are now accurate to 42 decimal places)
(del) (rev) 21:44, 3 October 2005 . . Dbenbenn . . 18525×9750 (2,511 bytes) (change red back to BF0A30, and completely rewrite SVG code, using Zscout's <use> tag idea, but with increased precision)
(del) (rev) 19:10, 3 October 2005 . . Zscout370 . . 247×130 (10,714 bytes) (Made it into a 130 pixel hoist, as per request on my talk page.)
(del) (rev) 19:02, 3 October 2005 . . Zscout370 . . 190×100 (9,382 bytes) (The cloning is done, but everyone is welcome to reduce the file size even more. :D)
(del) (rev) 10:06, 1 October 2005 . . Dbenbenn . . 570×300 (16,337 bytes) (change red back to BF0A30, according to cited references)
(del) (rev) 04:15, 27 September 2005 . . Zscout370 . . 570×300 (16,337 bytes) (Made the flag 300x570, fixed the colors. I also cut the file size down by over half. I am going to reduce it more once I have time.)
