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image by Dave Fowler, 24 January 2021
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a United States government-funded
organization that broadcasts and reports news, information and analysis to
countries in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Caucasus and the Middle East where it
says that "the free flow of information is either banned by government
authorities or not fully developed".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty
Flag
is a logo on a white field
Dave Fowler, 24 January 2021
images by António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 September 2025
The logo consists of a highly stylized torch whose flames also suggest a dove – in a clever composition of well known symbols of liberty (torch) and peace (dove). This device is colored orange and the accompanying text, set in a bold sans serif font colored in greyish dark teal, is at its right side, in two lines, reading "Radio Free Europe" above "Radio Liberty".
These two colors were officially PMS 158 C (orange) and PMS 431 C (grey),
given as equivalent to RGB:EA6903 and RGB:5B6770, respectively, in an
http://branding.rferl.org/ old
(2018) version of the banding RFE/RL guide. The current version, at
https://branding.rferl.org, shows these changed to
"orange" PMS 021C =
RGB:FF5400 and "teal" (changed from "grey") PMS 547 C = RGB:1A3948. I suspect
that it was seen more as a tech adjustment of the guidelines than an actual
rebranding.
This variation is reflected on the two images of this logo
included in
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RFERL_primary_brandmark.png
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RFERL_primary_brandmark.svg the
Wikimedia Commons, whence they illustrate several Wikipedias (the file type
variation being also a sign of the times). The two attached flag images
reflect this variation.
At
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Free_Europe/Radio_Liberty, more info
about this entity, which was a part of the U.S. foreign policy apparatus of
1945-2025.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 11 September 2025
image by Dave Fowler, 24 January 2021
Voice of America (VOA) is an American international broadcaster funded by the
United States Congress. It is the largest and oldest U.S. funded international
broadcaster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_of_America
The flag is a logo on
white.
Dave Fowler, 24 January 2021