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Your time is up. Jeb Bush will take it from here.

The joke was in poor taste, Harry clearly was annoyed by you doing it and here you are continuing drama that should not be continued further. We have community values, and as a prince, you should learn to respect them.

I’m locking this post as this doesn’t warrant further discussion.

DM me on Discord. I could help you out with poster making. mink#0088

I’d like a compliment too.

I’m too high on this list lol.

Hey it's me, Mink.

I've been making flags for a couple of years now, it's an art that I have worked to perfect over the years and also the most enjoyable for me. In this post I'll go over its history and my best tips for designing a flag.

HISTORY



The art/study of Flags is known as "Vexillology," which comes from the Latin 'vexillum' meaning flag. Vexillology, as well as its cousin Heraldry, has been around for many centuries. Flags, national emblems, and coats of arms are one of the greatest displays of nationalism and patriotism that there are out there. A Flag is meant to resemble an entire people, or a nation, or a state, or a group in one unifying way.

While Vexillology has been used for centuries, there was never a term for the study of flags until U.S Scholar and Vexillologist Whitney Smith coined the term "Vexillology" in 1957. With this, he formed the North American Vexillological Associations and many other international associations around Vexillology. Most notably, he also designed the flag for Guyana, a Southern American nation, shown here:



He also proposed a flag for Antarctica, however, this is not used to this day.



To this day, these organizations still exist with their many purposes in studying Vexillology and what makes a good flag design. Which brings me to my next topic.

WHAT MAKES A GOOD FLAG ANYWAY?

The North American Vexillological Association (NAVA), has outlined and agreed upon these 5 basic principles, taken from their website:

1. Keep it Simple and Clean: a good flag should be easy to draw from memory. It should be timeless, recognizable from a farther distance.

2. Make the Symbolism Meaningful: a good flag should have symbolism that stands out to the people it's representing. Everything about it from the colors used to the symbols used should mean something special.

3. Limit your color palette: a good flag doesn't need to have so many colors (I believe there are exceptions to this rule) restrict yourself to 2 or 3 basic yet meaningful colors.

4. NO LETTERS OR SEALS: a good flag doesn't need seals nor lettering (see the state flags of the United States for examples of breaking this rule).

5. Be Distinct or Related: don't try to copy off of another flag, but it's ok to be a little similar to show comparison.

Here are examples of Good Flags that the book "Good Flag, Bad Flag" gives:

Bangladesh follows Rule 1 due to be easy to draw, recognizable from a distance, and easy to remember.


Italy is an example of Rule 2 followers. Meaningful, yet basic symbolism.


Amsterdam follows Rule 3. The colors contrast well and are very basic colors at that.


Côtes-d'Armor is an example of Rule 4. No seals or anything, but still meaningful symbolism with the simplified seagull over its coastline.


Lastly, Acadia is an example of Rule 5. Related to France due to their French heritage, but also distinct with their capital.


From what I've learned, these are the basic principles you should follow. However, art is lawless, so I, as a vexillologist, don't often use these like a bible. I also think there can be a lot of exceptions to these rules that look beautiful or mean something to their host nation anyway. Which brings me to my next section.

WHAT DOES A FLAG MEAN TO YOU?



In the above picture, is a picture of the Flag of the United States. My American readers, who have made it this far, tell me in the comments, WHAT DOES THIS FLAG MEAN TO YOU? For some people, they may not think much of the flag other than something we as Americans just pledge allegiance to every morning in school. For others, the American flag is a symbol of liberty, peace, freedom, something they want to fly on their pickup truck or fly outside their home. For others, on the opposite end, the American Flag is a symbol of a long history of slavery, racism, imperialism, and overzealous capitalism. In this case, they'd see it as something to fly upside down in defiance, something to stomp on, burn, turn away in disgust, mock others for using it, or not bother with the flag at all.





This is what's so great to observe with Vexillology, everyone across the world sees flags from a different perspective than one another. I could put a flag of Nazi Germany and ask how some people here feel about it, and I would hope most of you would be disgusted by it. However, I know there are some people that still wave the flag of the Nazis to this day. Flags are not often judged by what they mean to the group being represented. You could have a lazy flag that breaks the rules of Vexillology in some ways but is effective in its purpose and means something to everyone. Now obviously, the goal of making a flag does not have people burn it in defiance, but to unite a people with a common symbolism. The history of how a flag is used can contort its purpose beyond what was intended. And that's just the beauty of flags, you can design a flag with one singular meaning, but have it mean something different to everyone else.

MY TIPS ON FLAG DESIGN

If anyone is reading this and wants to explore the field of vexillology, I leave you with these specific tips that I've learned to use over the years.

1. BE CREATIVE: If you are lucky enough to have a well thought out idea for a flag, make it. Let nothing stop you.

2. NEVER USE GRAY: The color gray should never be used in a flag. Gray often has a dull, meaningless, colorless symbolism. If you're shooting for a good flag, avoid this color at costs.

3. IF USING TEXT, MAKE IT A DESIGN CHOICE RATHER THAN AFTERTHOUGHT: I like to use the U.S State of Colorado as a follower of this rule. The flag has lettering, but its an important design choice for the flag that makes it distinct from all others. If you're going to use lettering, be like Colorado, make it a design choice rather than an afterthought.

CONCLUSION

Flags are often an overlooked artform, despite flags being seen almost every day in our lives. Flags are a unifying symbol of where we come from, who we are, and what ideals and values we have. A flag is your best way of showing what you truly represent. Tell me below, what does a flag mean to you?




Sources:

nava.org
google.com

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I missed when you were a priest. Amen!

Xvoid wrote on 19th May 2020, 02:11 PM:

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Supermikey97 wrote on 19th May 2020, 02:03 PM:
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Xvoid wrote on 19th May 2020, 01:56 PM:
In the war declaration post I said to avoid going to Cobia and even still I made areas for spectators to watch where they would be safe but people still insisted on going near the dangerzone, it's like walking into a war in real life and complaining that you got shot at. What do you expect to happen?
As well as this numerous times the CPPP and PLA (which are ran by the same members) would deliberately fire nukes and many innocents would also fall victim. This is hypocrisy at it's finest. Accept defeat and counter war.
Not to mention without nukes we would have still won given we had larger numbers, we were better equipped and were better at fighting.

This is no excuse for deliberately nuking innocents just to kill your enemies. And if you say you still would have won without nukes, why did you use them?
We wanted to speed things up and save time, and what you're saying is only you guys are allowed to use nukes and accidentally kill innocents but we can't?

What you did was NO accident. You could have waited, you could have no used them at all, you could have shot at us. Instead, you thought you could speed up the process by killing a few innocents along the way and then blaming them for dying. Sad!

Xvoid wrote on 19th May 2020, 01:56 PM:

In the war declaration post I said to avoid going to Cobia and even still I made areas for spectators to watch where they would be safe but people still insisted on going near the dangerzone, it's like walking into a war in real life and complaining that you got shot at. What do you expect to happen?
As well as this numerous times the CPPP and PLA (which are ran by the same members) would deliberately fire nukes and many innocents would also fall victim. This is hypocrisy at it's finest. Accept defeat and counter war.
Not to mention without nukes we would have still won given we had larger numbers, we were better equipped and were better at fighting.

This is no excuse for deliberately nuking innocents just to kill your enemies. And if you say you still would have won without nukes, why did you use them?

Is this what they believe victory looks like? This is coupled with the fact that Void is blaming you all for dying.


Props to ALPHA for going so low.