Flag thread

>>1337959
>Implying Rome had heraldry

>>1337969
Anything that represents it is ugly

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Just a bunch of crosses and X's. Thank god Scotland might leave, that opens up the possibility of the Welsh flag getting included.

>>1337959
What the fuck is that cigar looking thing it's sitting on?

>>1337954
looks cool though desu, tad edgy but it works

>>1338276
It might just be the Arabic, but it just looks too messy. The isis flag at least had a certain crudeness that looks cool. I don't blame al nurse for the ugly flag, most of the good ideas have been taken

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>>1337941
>let's just use the ms paint fill bucket ayyy lmao

>>1338341
To be fair that tradition of solid color Islamic flags came from Muhammad, who used an intimidating (imo) solid black flag.

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>How do we distinguish our flag from that of Guinea?
>Put a motherfuckin R on it!
>Genius!

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Shame the Soviets got rid of the 1923 flag in the 50s, the long curvy style sickle was the best.

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Was this the best flag Spain ever got?

>>1338203
It's funny because this is probably the best looking flag in the world.

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>>1338390
No, this is.

>>1338385
I think that's a very good looking flag.

>>1338390
>Purple with yellow
Absolutely disgusting

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>>1338385
Soviet Republics had aesthetic as fuck flags.

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>>1338390
>>1339370
This is probably the best one, this or the older Royal Flags with the white field.

I don't know why, but I never liked the Republican flag.
The Blue is just makes it off for some reason.

>>1337954
The White one used by the Taliban looks much better.

The writing under the Shahada on that flag makes it a bit ugly.

>>1338385
It's not a bad flag design.

>>1339421
Some of those flags are pretty ugly.
Specifically the Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Georgian, Belorussian, Lithuanian, Moldovan, and Ukranian which looks like it's hammer and sickle is a bit off to the right.

>>1339421
>Red and green together
>Blue overdose
>Random shapes
>Hammer and sickle put everywhere at absolutely random proportions

>>1339440
>>1339421
The Georgian flag is great for how deviant it is.

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No contestors.

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>>1339421
Also USSR had a really unhealthy obsession with red/blue/yellow thrown together, there was an overdose of it. Here's Soviet Kiev coat of arms, for example.

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>>1339483
Modern one for comparison.

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>>1339485
Pinsk, though at least the historical coat of arms is just the yellow bow on white background.

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>>1339491
*Red background

Kyzylorda (Red Army in Kazakh).

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>>1339497
Leningrad, not officially adopted, thankfully. Turns out even the basic crossed anchors design is easy to fuck up.

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>>1339499
And here's Novgorod.

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Russia has one of the best flags ever

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>>1339503
and another

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Bhutan has a cool one aswell

>>1338992
It needs a sore, red ass to the left of it.

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>>1339506
The korean flag is based as fuck aswell. Never understood the meaning, but looked it up:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagua
Fucking byakugan in this bitch

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>>1339511
tfw phd in vexillology and can't get a job...

>>1339516
Move from Whitesealonbluebackgroundland.

>>1339516
>tfw phd in vexillology
Now why would you go and do something stupid like that? Do you want to endure large amounts of pain and suffering?

>>1339526
I tought getting a job would be easier.
The amounts of pain and suffering isn't that bad.
When I look at flags they make me happy.
I tried soliciting, but there aren't many businesses that want vexillologists. So I'm writing a book now.

>>1337941
But that flag is fucking great, what the fuck is wrong with you OP?

>>1337954
I don't dislike it but I would like it better if it was only the stylized caligraphy. The normal letters down kinda break it.

>>1338390
Vomitive, what the fuck were they thinking?

>>1340040
looks better in motion and on canvas given the brightness and horizontal lines that can confuse the eye.

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Coat of arms thread?

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>>1340643
Go on.

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>>1340770
Sure.
Falun used to produce quite a considerable amount of the world's copper once, which lead to this neat coat of arms.

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>>1340847
This is from a city in the same region as Falun and I suppose its symbol also is related to the rich mining going on there back in time.

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>>1340858
This one is older and comes from Gävle.
For some reason they couldn't come up with something more original than just placing the first letter of the name on it.

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We'd like the old flag back tyvm

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This is pretty shitty f a m

>>1340637
Made in Heaven?

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>>1340643
We have a lot of ugly ones in Norway, but I think Namsos "takes the cake", as it were.

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>>1341312
Tynset isn't much better

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>>1341331
At least Ringsakers is sort of presentable.

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>>1341338
Orland for least imaginative.

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>>1341348
Tranoy a beauty.

>>1341312
>>1341331
>>1341338
why are meese so over-represented in norwegian heraldry

>>1341383
We call them "the king of the forest".
They are basically the Norwegian "lions".

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>>1340643
Henry II of cypress/jerusalem

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>>1341423
also this is my family heraldry

>>1341383
Cause they're cool as fuck.

>>1339421
The georgian one is very based.

The others are ugly.

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>>1341812
Soviet heraldic tradition is shit. Surprisingly, modern Russia is god tier. Bless the man who comes up with bear splitting the atoms.

>>1338217
Double ended vibrator

>>1339421
The only good ones here are the Tajik and Lithuanian

>>1339725
Have you tried getting a job in academia at a university that specializes in international relations ?

>>1339387
Idk, I something about that purple makes it better

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best flag

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>>1339440
>big dumb bird

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>Putting text and tiny symbols on your flags

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>>1338390

Yes, it hits a weird dissonant tone, but in a good way.

>>1343456
Imagine being hired to make a flag like that back in the 1500's

>>1343466
>having three random colors as your flag

>>1343715
I guess that it would have been expensive and laborious to make was the point

>>1343719
At a distance, symbols and text become meaningless blurs unless you're looking at it on a good, clear day. At least, tricolors can be recognized at that distance.

>>1337941
Fuck off, Aragon is beautiful, it's the catalonians that stole our flag

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I win.

>>1344634
That actually hurts my eyes

>>1337954
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>>1338385
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>>1343456
These are great