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Custom Flag 09/15/15 (Tue) 01:21:43 No.419 [Reply]

What do you think of my flags /vex/? What could be improved?

The Blue and Red one was my original flag that I had made for a made up nation of mine. It id the first draft and most of the mistakes have been fixed, like the 45° bars not being 45°.

The Yellow and Blue flag was a quick draft of a new nation. I originally had a dark red as the field, but used a complementary colour instead. I liked the emblem on the hoist area the most, but was wondering if it should be in the middle.

09/16/15 (Wed) 13:19:54 No.420

>>419

I like the yellow and blue one. Design is very similar to the Prussian and Nazi War Ensign, as it is now. I don't think it would work as well if it was in the middle. Colour scheme is good, maybe emblem could have different colour.

As for the blue and red one, there's something off about it. First, there's loads of white and red stripes with varying thickness; I'm not sure if this is your intention or just sloppy work. Why does the vertical bar have thin white stripes, but the horizontal one doesn't? Also, there's too much blue on the fly side. Makes the flag look off balance. It would work better as a square flag, if you ask me. Or perhaps, if you cut the right half into pennants, like the Swedish Royal Standard. Try some more variations.

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Monarchist Flags 09/11/15 (Fri) 23:55:32 No.413 [Reply]

>>136

I did this today, I was bored.

This is the first flag I ever do, so criticism would be nice

09/11/15 (Fri) 23:58:48 No.414

Fugg, forgot to explain it.

These are some fictional flags for the Second Mexican Empire.

They have the Cross of Burgundy, which was the flag of New Spain. The colours are the same as the ones from the original Mexican tricolour and the coat of arms is the same as the Second Empire's flag.

09/12/15 (Sat) 11:14:44 No.415

What program did you use?

It's by far the easiest to design flags in vector graphics editors, like inkscape. As a bonus, Wikipedia has most of its flags done in that same program, so you can just start working from those flags. A lot of coats of arms are converted to .svg as well.

Unfortunately 8chan still doesn't allow .svg uploads because it's possible to put some nasty html in them. I guess if you didn't allow them to show inline it would be fine, but oh well. Perhaps in infinity-next.

Visual appeal wise, I like the 3rd one the most for some reason. Perhaps just because the green Cross of Burgundy looks unique and it also works well with black and gold from the coat of arms. Granted, it's just a mashup of existing designs (pretty reasonable if you want to keep the symbolism) and not built from scratch, but it works well.

09/12/15 (Sat) 11:20:03 No.416

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While we're at it, here's another Mexican Empire flag I found on deviantart. There's loads of flag/CoA/map autism there and some of it is pretty top notch.

https://ieph.deviantart.com/art/Flag-of-the-Mexican-Empire-349756555

09/12/15 (Sat) 12:01:46 No.417

Nice

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09/10/15 (Thu) 22:59:22 No.410 [Reply]

BEST FLAG OF ALL FUCKING TIME COMING THROUGH

09/10/15 (Thu) 22:59:57 No.411

>>410

damn, look at that sexy flag

09/11/15 (Fri) 17:15:20 No.412

>>410

check my flag

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Ancient Greek "heraldry" 08/27/15 (Thu) 19:11:51 No.393 [Reply]

Classical heraldry starts around 1100 when shield designs became tied to noble lineages. But the practice of decorating your shield to make it recognisable is much older. Roman military units used distinctive shield markings. And Ancient Greek hoplites are depicted (both in contemporary and historic pictures) as having symbols painted on their shields.

Now, I know that Sparta used letter Lambda Λ (other name for Sparta was Lakedaimōn), and that Athenians used the little owl on their coins and generally as a symbol of their city. But, does anyone know of any other cities having their distinct symbols? Except for Spartans, there doesn't seem to be unity in what symbols hoplites had on their shields; were those inherited in a heraldic manner, from father to son, or were they completely arbitrary? I can't find a lot of useful info, maybe I just don't know what to look for.

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08/23/15 (Sun) 05:17:45 No.383 [Reply]

This is Esperanto's flag

t.

>>>/esperanto/

08/23/15 (Sun) 09:54:18 No.385

Added to flag options.

t. board owner

08/23/15 (Sun) 22:34:24 No.388

>>385

neat :^D

08/25/15 (Tue) 17:14:00 No.390

Cool. Am learn esperanto

t.

Komensanto

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08/17/15 (Mon) 00:12:40 No.353 [Reply]

Which is the worst /vex/?

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08/17/15 (Mon) 19:57:31 No.355

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>>354

Flag and emblem of People's Republic of Benin (socialist emblems are an interesting topic on their own, as they more or less follow their specific design rule set, parallel to heraldry)

08/17/15 (Mon) 20:32:13 No.358

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>>354

Indeed, the Gaddafi's flag was somewhat more original. The current one looks like a mix between the pan-African flag and the ottoman empire.

>>355

I'd like to point out that this heraldry is not the original one, as you can see on this statue in Cotonou.

08/17/15 (Mon) 21:56:28 No.359

>>358

I couldn't find any official depiction, so I'm stuck with Wikipedia's rendition. Though, "heraldically", it is a correct depiction, as all elements are there.

08/23/15 (Sun) 04:32:47 No.382

>>355

My eyes

make it stop

08/23/15 (Sun) 14:13:17 No.387

>>382

It's not that bad.

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thread moved from /flags/ Delicious Flat Level!9Y.AGAi22w 08/07/15 (Fri) 16:48:32 No.268 [Reply]

09/22/14 (Mon) 23:48:45 No.22

Posting gender/sexuality flags

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08/07/15 (Fri) 17:06:36 No.287

06/12/15 (Fri) 03:28:08 No.242

Why do you fags equate the way that you jack off to some nationality or identity?

08/07/15 (Fri) 17:06:47 No.288

07/05/15 (Sun) 01:55:18 No.243

>>287

Because when people give you shit, you come together under a common banner. That's one of the purposes of flags.

08/19/15 (Wed) 10:10:35 No.366

Why the fuck does any of this need a flag

Who would use these ever aside from fag attention whores

08/23/15 (Sun) 00:53:42 No.380

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08/23/15 (Sun) 09:57:29 No.386

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>>380

you forgot this one

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Fascist Country Flags - thread moved from /flags/ 08/07/15 (Fri) 15:56:05 No.217 [Reply]

12/13/14 (Sat) 07:12:57 No.77

Croatia

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08/07/15 (Fri) 16:01:27 No.231

03/07/15 (Sat) 09:19:52 No.223

>>225

>>226

>hakenkreuz

>fascist

08/07/15 (Fri) 16:02:12 No.232

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03/07/15 (Sat) 09:36:49 No.227

>>231

AFAIK only Russians used form of a swastika, posolon, in their fascist movement led by Rodzayevsky.

Flag of fascist poland, combined with symbol used by historical neo-pagan national communist party.

08/07/15 (Fri) 16:02:45 No.233

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03/09/15 (Mon) 09:30:29 No.235

>>219

>>220

Greece part 3

08/07/15 (Fri) 16:03:07 No.234

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03/09/15 (Mon) 09:32:55 No.236

>>225

USA! USA! USA!

08/23/15 (Sun) 01:54:05 No.381

>>227

that flag was proposed by hitler's enemies as the new flag of germany once hitler was defeated. no way is it fascist

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thread moved from /flags/ 08/07/15 (Fri) 14:42:12 No.147 [Reply]

09/21/14 (Sun) 05:31:27 No.1

We need a good start of this board.

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08/07/15 (Fri) 14:43:13 No.149

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09/21/14 (Sun) 06:50:08 No.8

>>148

fresh oc, like it?

08/07/15 (Fri) 14:44:19 No.151

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09/21/14 (Sun) 07:12:42 No.10

>>149

OP here. I love it.

08/07/15 (Fri) 14:44:57 No.152

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09/21/14 (Sun) 14:23:18 No.18

08/07/15 (Fri) 14:45:28 No.153

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09/25/14 (Thu) 03:13:09 No.42

United Soviet Socialist Nations (a communist UN)

08/19/15 (Wed) 06:36:12 No.364

>>148

Azeri nazi party

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Fantastical/Attributed vexillology and heraldry thread 06/23/15 (Tue) 10:12:05 No.53 [Reply]

In short, nations which never had chance of possessing a proper vexilllogy or heraldry, Coats of Arms attributed/proposed to some characters (like, how would a Western-style Coat of Arms of a Japanese Emperor looks like?), etc…

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attributed_arms we call it "heraldyka fantazyjna" (fantastical/fantastic/fantasy? heraldry)

Presenting some of my favourites, Babylonia, Etruria, Romania/Roman Empire (two variants, one used OTL by reconstructionist group, but I like their Flag) and (Old)/Baltic Prussia (used by modern-day reconstructionists of this language on the terrain of Kaliningrad Oblast and around).

Also, if someone HAVE saved most of those unsourced/uncertain origin Flags deleted from Wikicommons in good resolution/svg (like those of "Turkic Empires", previous set of Mughal Empire and others) PLEASE post it here, I can't find a way to find them now.

Wikipedia used to have many good flags which are now deleted, whereas shit like combining random flag with homo flag stays, I can't comprehend this.

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06/23/15 (Tue) 10:21:00 No.55

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>>53

Palmyrene Empire, Constantinople (alleged), Anglo-Saxon (allegend) and variant used by modern day nationalists, Kingdom of Cyprus (Crusader state, derived from arms)

>>54

Yes, those. They're poorly documented/sourced, but most of them used to have .svg version in Wiki, like Khazaria.

>>53

Also as you an see, from supernatural beings only Devil Satan and Seraphim Michael have any attributed arms, when I'll be good at vector graphic I plan to do some CoAs of other Angels/Devils based either on their attributes, or sigils (would be easy to create Seraphim Metatron's one, just put Metatron's Cube on something)

06/23/15 (Tue) 13:00:29 No.56

>>53

>>55

Hm. Try browsing the category "Special of fictional flags", though I don't see those specific flags there.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Special_or_fictional_flags

08/11/15 (Tue) 15:27:00 No.335

>>55

The Cyprus Crusade flag looks really cool.

08/11/15 (Tue) 19:59:10 No.337

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Attributed arms of Nine Worthies.

If you can read blazons, heraldica.org has a list with different attributed arms for them.

08/15/15 (Sat) 15:05:39 No.352

>>337

>heraldica.org has a list with different attributed arms for them.

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/worthies.htm

And I forgot to give a link apparently

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07/11/15 (Sat) 18:13:59 No.106 [Reply]

I redesigned the flag of a city I live nearby. I'll try to get it officialy changed but first I want to know you're thinking about it /vex/.

Pics related, the first one is the current flag.

The second one is what I made.

The third one are the Arènes de Nîmes, the symbol of the city.

Also rate my shit general thread

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08/12/15 (Wed) 15:09:46 No.345

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I decided to make a Mars flag.

>White, Dark Red and Heraldic Blue

>The white represents the human race, being the brightest colour aims to be the contrat point and the main part of the flag

>Red represents the planet itself and the rocky nd barren nature of it

>Blue is the water that will insuflate life to the planet with the terraformation

>The blue stripes flow from the white triangle to represent the human action on the planet to get liquid water and life to spring, while the main blue stripe divides the red, Mars, in two representing the new nature and from of the planet.

08/14/15 (Fri) 17:46:49 No.347

>>106

The idea is good, OP, but you should look for the symbolism in the actual flag, maybe it is important as a definitory point in the city history, you shouldnt trash that so quickly.

08/14/15 (Fri) 19:04:51 No.348

>>347

It doesn't look like there's more to it than just the colours from the coat of arms doubling as a flag.

One could keep the old coat of arms and adopt a new flag anyway, so no symbolism is trashed.

08/14/15 (Fri) 20:41:15 No.349

>>348

Agreed, but the flag of OP has some symbolism on itself, since the roman theatre calls for the roman heritage. Obviously, this doesnt have to be a contradiction, but I thought it should be said.

08/15/15 (Sat) 00:01:23 No.350

>>347

The current flag is, like >>348 said, just the coat of arms on a flag.

The coat of arms is great, don't get me wrong, it is a great symbol of the roman heritage of the city, but this is more a flag by default than an actual flag.

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

The Worst-Designed Thing You've Never Noticed | Roman Mars | TED Talks 08/12/15 (Wed) 12:19:07 No.343 [Reply]

A TED Talk about flag design and vexilology in the US, hope you enjoy. Also, the link to download or read online the book "Good Flag Bad Flag" which is named on the video.

http://www.ausflag.com.au/assets/images/Good-Flag-Bad-Flag.pdf

08/12/15 (Wed) 15:37:41 No.346

I like how he fixes the San Francisco flag at the end. Actually, I think the simplified design could work pretty good as a coat of arms as well. Might try make it myself…

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06/26/15 (Fri) 13:44:12 No.68 [Reply]

Apparently 4/int/ did a set of all world flags with the Maple Leaf.

I'll be posting link to imgur album here for further discussion.

http://imgur.com/a/Vco8c

08/12/15 (Wed) 09:48:50 No.339

I was there for that thread, I made Nambia.

It was a good thread indeed.

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07/29/15 (Wed) 17:35:52 No.141 [Reply]

post flags that are virtually indistinguishable ITT

I'll start with Poland, find as many flags that look the same as possible

07/30/15 (Thu) 01:18:29 No.143

Monaco, Indonesia, Singapore.

08/03/15 (Mon) 17:40:48 No.144

if we're allowed to go regional flags, a lot of states of austria have flags like this;

tyrol and upper austria are white and red

salzburg, wien and vorarlberg are red and white

08/07/15 (Fri) 20:49:19 No.329

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Flag of Bohemia.

The blue triangle on hoist side was added when Czechoslovakia declared independence exactly because it was identical to the Polish flag. Slovakia didn't have a flag of their own before, I think. After dissolution, they were supposed to abandon the common symbols, but Czechs violated that because they don't have any other historical flag to use.

Moravia doesn't have its own flag either, and the unofficial one is identical to the flag of Prague (yellow and red). So they also can't just combine both flags.

08/11/15 (Tue) 15:09:41 No.334

>>143

Also Cantabria in Spain.

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