Flags & Vexillology

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I like flags.

My favorite favorite national flag is the Union Jack. That might be surprising because I fucking hate the English, but there's a reason they put the flag on fucking everything. It has good color cohesion, very memorable, distinct from far away, simple enough a child can draw it, and most importantly: it accurately represents the land and people it flies over, as it is a combination of the Irish, Scottish, and English flags.

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Flags are important. People like symbols. People rally under symbols, put it on things they wear, on vehicles they own. They provide a message and project power of the organization they represent.

I also really, really like flags that can be turned on their side and used as banners. It is an excellent design choice.

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Tri-colors can do this, but the only good tri-color is the french one, as Napoleon basically invented nationalism and a flag to wave to go along with it. That makes the french tricolor historically more significant. The rest are fucking boring. Nordic Cross flags are OK.

The Estonian Flag and the Icelandic Flag stand out as two good flags that follow popular patterns that are otherwise boring.

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All flags that quarter another flag are shit. Left is current New Zealand flag, right was a very good candidate that somehow lost.

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Japan's flags are great. All of them match and are nice colors and symbols.

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Post some flags. Here's a flag I made for Germany when it decides to stop using a sad sunset as a representation of their country.

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Oh and in case you're wondering, the absolute worst flag I have ever seen is this.

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Unsurprisingly, they did not gain independence. This is because their flag sucked.
 
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What I like most about Estonian flag is that you can see blue sky, dark forest and snowy ground on winter day there. Also fun fact, there's swastika in our presidential flag (which is basically military flag with added officer's cross or so called "cross of freedom" in there)
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Here's a fun flag I learned about in Ukraine.

Russia (allegedly) is setting up satellite states to try and rip Ukraine up into tiny pieces which are subsequently friendly towards to Russia. One of these conceptual satellite states is Novorossiya (lit. New Russia).

Novorossiya's purported territory.
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Basically, all of the south.

And Novorossiya's flag.
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"komrade ivan, the kremlin need flag for southern ukraine puppet state. can you making of flag for new state? maybe reading of american history for flag idea, but change so it not obvious you copy."
 
I know you hate Tricolor and for a good reason. They are pretty bland and boring but one nice thing you can do because they are literally three colors in a line is add stuff to them to designate different stuff

100px-Flag_of_the_German_Empire.svg.png The National Flag

100px-Reichskolonialflagge.svg.png I have colonies and need to designate that this is not my core territory.

100px-Flag_of_German_Empire_(merchant+cross).svg.png I'm a merchant vessel and want to have a German flag but don't want to be shot at as a warship.

100px-War_Ensign_of_Germany_(1867–1892).svg.png We are at war. Also used for warships, helpful due to naval rules about docking in neutral ports while you are at war.
 
The current American flag is pretty ugly. Fifty vector objects shoved into one corner, fattening horizontal stripes going left and right (not even across the whole flag, but in a lopsided half-ass sort of way.) It's like someone had a fetish for tiny stars and decided their country needed to show it had more tiny stars than anybody.

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Big fuck-off authoritative emblems will always be a top-tier design choice for a flag. This one still has tiny stars but at least it's localized in a small space.

Honorable mention to the city of Surabaya, whose flag features two apex predators about to get into a street fight.

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In terms of Pirate Flags, my favourite is that of Edward Low, reputed to have been the most savage and sadistic pirate of the golden age of Piracy
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Honestly the combo of Black background and solid red stripes/detail aint used nearly enough in vexillology for my liking.
 
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I'm partial to flags that still rock the sickle and hammer.

This is Transnistria or the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic depending on who you ask.

Could go with a different color other than green for the stripe though.
 
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This flag is way more awesome than the proposed country would probably be.
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Zheleznogorsk (a Soviet secret city built for manufacturing nukes) has probably the dopest flag ever created.
 
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