Flags & Vexillology

Big Fat Frog said:
I was kind of curious if there was a flag to represent mankind in general or at least some concepts, but these two kind of stuck out to me.
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I think maybe the colors for the first one are a little ugly, and I feel like maybe the second one the colors can be flipped. I’m not sure though. I personally like the second one, and I feel like the handprint is a great symbol of humanity itself. What do you guys think?
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Agree on the symbolism. I like the first one better though I'm curious about the rationale behind the colour scheme.

Maybe something like the human rights logo?

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Niall Meanwhile said:
Agree on the symbolism. I like the first one better though I'm curious about the rationale behind the colour scheme.
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I believe the creator said it’s supposed to reflect ancient Paleolithic hand stencils found in caves around the globe. I feel like red is important to the color scheme because it symbolizes the blood that flows through our veins, but I’m not sure what other color would contrast well aesthetically and symbolically besides white, because black and red comes off too hostile.
 
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This is the flag of the Basters, a mixed-race peoples descended from the Cape Coloureds. They migrated from the Cape colony up into what is now Namibia and struggled at different times with European settlers and natives alike.
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Guess what each color symbolizes!
 
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StillSpergingOnTheNet said:
Our cities and towns towns can do good flags, why can't the state follow suit?
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general gubberment sloth and red tape, and --talking only partially out of my ass-- because national flags are old enough that ease of actually making and maintaining the thing was a concern and because municipal seals were often designed to be painted/carved rather than being specifically a flag. compare that to a state flag where the local militia might be flying it somewhere with cannons going off and no one to re-embroider it, so even with some fancy icons they have to be reasonably easy to make. old national flags are even simpler because a lot of them started as battle standards so identifiability and field maintenance were even more real concerns. a municipality doesn't have that worry even if they have their own units for whatever reason since much like today such a small unit probably be identified by badges or patches rather than a flag.

a city also has less overhead in choosing a flag and in only making a handful compared to a state or country can afford to go all out since they'll buy like 8 of them a year rather than 800 a week on top of licensing the design to barely-accountable third parties (how many times have you seen the US flag with the bars in the wrong order or stars aligned improperly?)

also cities having a specific flag rather than just a seal that gets plonked onto a colored sheet is a relatively new phenomenon so they'll generally have more modern design sensibilities when they have a flag separate from their seal/heraldry, and can take advantage of modern manufacturing to make silly designs that basically only work when silkscreened on. on top of being hard to make and maintain, something with a ton of embroidery on it for a full detail image would probably be too heavy to fly nicely in smaller sizes. (A "normal" flag like you see at city hall should be about a meter on its longest side or 2m at the most on a very tall pole, and once you start getting larger than that they're prohibitively heavy to "fly" more than "hang")
Triple Flutz said:
Montreal's flag from 1935 to 1939 looks like an intentionally shitty submission for the KF art threads,
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you should look up the rejected flag designs from Canada's competition to create a new flag, which resulted in the modern FUCKING LEAF. they range from "well intentioned but lmao" to outright shitposting. in fact some of the more notable examples came with letters basically explaining "this is a shitpost btw why did you make this an open competition you psychos"
 
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