From 1986 to 2010, Maryland's standard issue license plates were white with black lettering and a central seal with the flag's unique design. The 1986 plates are still valid and widely seen after being temporarily replaced by a design commemorating the bicentennial of the War of 1812, which had its Chesapeake Campaign in the state.

Despite the antiquity of its design, the Maryland flag is of post-Civil War origin. Throughout the colonial period, only the yellow-and-black Calvert family colors are mentioned in descriptions of the Maryland flag. After independence, the use of the Calvert family colors was discontinued.

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The design of the flag comes from the shield in the coat of arms of the Calvert family, the colonial proprietors of Maryland. George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore, adopted a coat of arms that included a shield with alternating quadrants featuring the yellow-and-black colors of his paternal family and the red-and-white colors of his maternal ...

The Maryland flag has 4 primary colors, which are yellow, black, red and white. The table below has the common and popular codes of these colors in HEX, RGB and CMYK formats along with Pantone (PMS), RAL and NCS (Natural Color System).

U.S. state flag consisting of a quartered design of alternating red-white and black-yellow panels. Alone of the 13 original states, Maryland has a state flag based on a flag flown under British rule.

Design of Maryland Flag. The black and gold design on the flag is the coat of arms of the Calvert family. It was granted to George Calvert as a reward for his storming a fortification during a battle (the vertical bars approximate the bars of the palisade).

Maryland's flag bears the arms of the Calvert and Crossland families. Calvert was the family name of the Lords Baltimore who founded Maryland, and their colors of gold and black appear in the first and fourth quarters of the flag. Crossland was the family of the mother of George Calvert, first Lord Baltimore. The red and white Crossland colors ...

The Maryland Secretary of State provides Pantone values for the red and gold of the flag. Black and gold became known as “Maryland colors” and were used by loyalists during the Civil War. Red and white, adopted by Confederate sympathizers, became known as “secession colors.”

The black and Gold designs belong to the Calvert family. The red and white design belongs to the Crossland family. The Maryland state flag was officially adopted in 1904 and is symbolic of the “reunion of all the citizens in the state and represented through the colors of the flag.”