Own work. Flag of Puerto Rico, modeled after the El Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) flag at the Museum of History, Anthropology and Art of the University of Puerto Rico since 1954, which features a light blue shade and is one of two surviving original flags of the revolt.^[1] The second El Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) flag features a dark blue shade.^[2][3]

Relying on contemporaneous but secondary oral sources, some historians have presumed that light blue was the color shade specifically adopted by committee members of the Revolutionary Committee of Puerto Rico in 1895, as their sources claim this was the same shade used on the original El Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares), the first revolutionary flag many of said members had rallied around in 1868. However, there is disagreement as to what was the original color shade of blue used on the flag of Lares in 1868, as there is a second original El Grito de Lares (Cry of Lares) flag featuring a dark blue shade. It appears that only two of several flags made for the revolt in 1868 have survived to this day: one uses light blue, and the other dark blue.