Texas State Flag

The flag of Texas has a blue vertical band on the left one-third of the flag with a white star in the center and a white and red horizontal band on the other two thirds of the flag.

The colors of the Texas flag represent blue = loyalty, white = purity, and red = bravery. The official Pantones for the Texas flag are 193 (red) and 281 (dark blue).

Texas is known as the “Lone Star” state and the flag of Texas as the “Lone Star Flag.”

The law of Texas legislates what is considered an official Texan Flag. “The state flag consists of a rectangle with a width to length ratio of two to three containing: (1) a blue vertical stripe one-third the entire length of the flag wide, and two equal horizontal stripes, the upper stripe white, the lower red, each two-thirds the entire length of the flag long; and (2) a white, regular five-pointed star in the center of the blue stripe, oriented so that one point faces upward, and of such a size that the diameter of a circle passing through the five points of the star is equal to three-fourths the width of the blue stripe. The red and blue of the state flag are the same colors used in the United States flag.”

The Texas flag was originally introduced to the Congress of the Republic of Texas on December 28, 1838, by Senator William Wharton. This flag was later officially adopted on January 25, 1839 as the national flag of the Republic of Texas.

Upon its annexation as the 28th state into the state of the Union in December 1845, the Republic of Texas national flag became its state flag.