Emblem, Flag, and Triangle in PNG and Vector

That moment always comes: the club is about to finalize this year's T-shirt, put together the camporee banner, or have a new flag sewn. Someone asks in the group chat: "does anyone have the emblem in PNG?" — and within five minutes six different versions show up, each one crookeder than the last, all downloaded from some random site.

That's the kind of detail that separates a polished club from an improvised one. And the good news is there's an official answer for everything: the Adventist Church publishes the emblem's open files, and the RUD, the Uniform Regulation of the Pathfinder and Adventurer Ministry, spells out exactly what's allowed and what isn't, measurement by measurement. In this guide you'll find the links, the formats, the regulation's item numbers, and the usage rules — no guesswork.

If what you want is to understand the meaning behind each color and figure, that's covered in another article: the triangular emblem and what each part means. Here, the topic is files, measurements, and compliance.

📥Where Are the Emblem's Official Files?

The official source is the Adventist Church's downloads portal, downloads.adventistas.org, maintained by the South American Division. That's where the Pathfinder Ministry's logo packages come from — and it's where you should point anyone asking for "the emblem link."

It's worth knowing what each package actually includes, because they're not all the same. Survey done on Jul 22, 2026:

Three honest notes. First: based on the official page's own description, the Brazilian package doesn't list a PNG — it was built for designers, with editable vector files. Second: the North American repository does have PNG, but it's the emblem in English and Spanish, not the Portuguese D1 used by the SAD — it's a reference, not a substitute. Third: these pages get updated without notice, so if a link changes, search for "logomarcas" inside the Pathfinder section of the downloads portal itself. The full list of official manuals is gathered in official club manuals.

🖼️I Need a PNG With a Transparent Background. Now What?

This is, by far, the most common search — and the one that produces the most bad artwork. Let's break it down.

PNG is a pixel-based image format. It supports a transparent background, which is great for placing the emblem over a photo or a colored background. The problem is that it has a fixed size: take a small PNG and blow it up for a 3-meter banner, and the triangle's edge turns into a jagged staircase. Vector (AI, EPS, CDR, vector PDF), on the other hand, is mathematical drawing: it scales freely, and the line stays clean.

That's why the SAD's official package comes in vector. The right approach: download the Logotipos abertos - Desbravadores package, open the AI, EPS, or CDR file in a vector editor, and export the PNG at the size you need, with a transparent background. Inkscape is free and opens PDF directly; for EPS, it depends on having Ghostscript installed on your machine. Five minutes of work, and you have the right artwork forever.

If you can't open vector files, there are two legitimate shortcuts: ask your Field's Pathfinder coordinator (Conference or Mission), who usually has the kit ready, or use the year's official campaign PNGs — like the World Pathfinder Day one — when the piece belongs to that campaign. What doesn't work is downloading the first Google result: it's almost always a version redesigned by a third party, with the wrong proportions and off-brand colors.

🔤Which Emblem to Use on Each Item: D1, D2, D3, D4, or D5?

A lot of people call everything "the Pathfinder emblem," but the RUD 2020 describes five different versions, each with its own function. Using the wrong one is the most common mistake in club artwork — and the easiest to avoid. The item-by-item breakdown is in emblem codes.

In practice: for T-shirts, banners, sashes, stickers, and flags, the emblem is the D1 — it's the one the regulation names specifically for the flag, the pennant, and promotional materials. Investitured leaders have the LD1 to LD4 family, with the navy octagon and the globe, and item 25 also clears them for leadership promotional materials.

One detail almost nobody notices: D1 and D3 aren't interchangeable. If the item has room for the words, use the full D1. If it's a small item, like a pin or a buckle, the intended design is the D3, without text. Shrinking the D1 until the letters turn into a blur isn't "adapting" it — it's delivering illegible artwork.

🚩What Are the Official Measurements for the Flag and the Pennant?

Here the RUD 2020 gets extremely specific — and this is exactly the part your seamstress or print shop will ask for. Write it down and send it along with the order:

Notice that the club's name on the flag has a length cap: 50 cm. Clubs with long names need to think about the font before sending it off to be embroidered, because squeezing the text to fit means altering the standard. And the pole is regulated too — it's not decoration, it's part of the spec.

If you also want to understand the ceremonial side (who carries it, how to raise it, how to store it), see the Pathfinder flag and the unit pennant. The measurements above are the technical part; ceremonial use has its own rules.

✅Can I Put the Emblem on the Club's T-Shirt, Banner, and Mug?

Yes — and that's the answer most Directors are looking for. Item 25 of the RUD 2020 states, plainly, that the creation of promotional and/or personalized materials may include emblems A1 to A4 and LA1 (Adventurers) and D1 to D4 and LD1 to LD4 (Pathfinders). In other words: event T-shirts, banners, sashes, stickers, mugs, buttons, social media graphics — all of it is covered.

But the same item comes with two conditions. The first is about tone: clubs, Fields, Unions, and commercial vendors must respect the sobriety and dignity of the Pathfinder and Adventurer Club. The second is an explicit list of vetoes: emblems may not be placed on items such as underwear, rugs, flip-flops, and the like. The logic is simple — the emblem shouldn't end up somewhere it gets literally stepped on or treated as a throwaway item.

Now, pay attention to the distinction that resolves 90% of the doubts: promotional material is not the uniform. A club anniversary T-shirt with the D1 printed on it is promotional material, and the club can produce it freely. The official uniform pieces — embroidered emblems, scarf, honors sash, patches — can only be produced and sold by vendors accredited by the SAD, under items 28 to 44 of the regulation. Those vendors carry the "Official Product" seal (item 33), go through the accreditation process once every two years (item 42), and appear on a list published annually on the official website (item 31).

And there's a warning worth repeating: item 26 states that any vendor presenting itself as "accredited," "authorized," "partner," or "official" without being on the SAD's list is subject to the applicable legal consequences. Before closing a deal with a shop that promises a complete uniform, check its name against the official vendor list.

"The creation of promotional and/or personalized materials may include emblems A1 – A4 – LA1 and D1 – D4 – LD1 – LD4."RUD 2020, item 25 — Uniform Regulation of the Pathfinder and Adventurer Ministry, South American Division

🎨What's Off-Limits When It Comes to the Artwork — and Why It Matters

The starting point is item 4 of the RUD 2020: logos, emblems, insignia, ribbons, patches, rank bars, scarves, flags, pennants, and honors are the exclusive property of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, and colors, shades, fabrics, stitching style, and cut are treated as the Church's proprietary industrial design. In plain terms: the artwork has an owner, and the owner already decided what it looks like.

From there, the list of what not to do is pretty clear-cut:

• Don't distort it. No stretching, squashing, or tilting the triangle to make it fit. Always resize with the proportions locked.
• Don't change the colors. Not to "match this year's theme," and not to make it monochrome on your own call. When an item calls for a single color, the intended design for that is the D5.
• Don't add effects. Drop shadows, outlines, glow, gradients, metallic texture — all of that misrepresents the brand.
• Don't invent your own club's emblem. Mixing the D1 with a mascot or the unit's name into a new design runs into item 20: it's exclusively up to the South American Division to create or change official items and materials. Item 39 goes further, stating that trying to find loopholes in the regulation to produce items that aren't provided for "will be considered bad faith," with the risk of losing accreditation.
• Don't attach anything to the Church's logo. The Manual Prático de Marca da IASD is direct: the Church's mark should not be modified or added to, either on its own or as part of another entity's logo, except with the General Conference's express permission.

One technical detail that saves a lot of artwork: the RUD names the colors but doesn't give HEX or Pantone codes in the emblem, flag, and patch sections. It speaks of red, golden yellow, royal blue, white, and petrol green. That means trying to "pick" the color with an eyedropper on a compressed JPG will give you the wrong shade. The correct color lives inside the official vector file — one more reason to always start from it. If you need the exact value for a print shop, ask your Field's coordinator.

And it's worth keeping apart two marks that a lot of people mix up: the Adventist Church's logo (the flame with the open Bible, in use since 1997) follows the Manual Prático de Marca da IASD and uses the Advent Sans font. That manual also states that there is no single mandatory color for the logo: each entity picks its own, and the one the South American Division adopted is Pantone 541C · HEX #003366 · RGB 0, 51, 102. The Pathfinder Club's emblem is a different mark, with its own rules in the RUD. In version 1.2 of the brand manual, the departments already standardized into an identifier format are Communication, Ministerial Association, Stewardship, Evangelism, and the Latin-American Adventist Theological Seminary — Pathfinders isn't on that list, and the triangle remains its own standalone mark. Don't try to merge the two.

🧭Who Decides What: SAD, Field, and Club

It's worth understanding the hierarchy, because it answers the question "who do I talk to?"

The South American Division decides the design and the rule. It creates and changes official items (item 20), publishes the RUD — the 2020 edition, in item 1, revokes every previous regulation — and settles unforeseen cases and interpretations of the regulation (item 5). The SAD and the Unions also hold exclusive distribution rights over their respective Field emblems (item 23); for camporee patches, exclusivity belongs to whoever organizes the event — the SAD for its own camporees, and the Unions and Fields for events within their own territories (item 22).

Your Field (your Conference or Mission) is your front desk. That's where the Pathfinder coordinator sits, that's who already has the files ready, who forwards vendor accreditation requests to the Union, and who answers the question specific to your region. If your question isn't in the regulation, the way forward is the Field — not the WhatsApp group.

The club executes. The board chooses what to produce within what the standard allows: the T-shirt's theme, the banner's layout, the unit's artwork on the pennant. Creative freedom exists, and it's considerable — it just doesn't extend to the emblem's design itself.

A note of transparency, since this portal is run by Desbravai: Desbravai is a system that supports the club's day-to-day routine and does not replace the SGC, the Adventist Church's Club Management System. Official member registration and the annual insurance are handled in the SGC, and only there — that part is irreplaceable. For artwork, emblem, and uniform matters, the RUD is the authority; for registration and insurance, it's the SGC.