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These variations in shade eventually led to calls to standardise the colour of Scotland's national flag, and in 2003 a committee of the Scottish Parliament met to examine a petition that the Scottish Executive adopt the Pantone 300 colour as a standard.

( Note that this blue is of a lighter shade than the Pantone 280 of the Union Flag ).

Having taken advice from a number of sources, including the office of the Lord Lyon King of Arms, the committee recommended that the optimum shade of blue for the Saltire be Pantone 300.

Recent versions of the Saltire have therefore largely converged on this official recommendation.

( Pantone 300 is # 0065BD as hexadecimal web colours )