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Is anyone here into vexillology?
Vexillology is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags (...)
What are your favourite flags? Countries, regions, cultures, organisations, anything goes.
Vexillology is the study of the history, symbolism and usage of flags (...)
What are your favourite flags? Countries, regions, cultures, organisations, anything goes.
Union Jack - it's kind of an obvious choice but I just think it looks really good and has a strong reason for the way it looks which is like double points.
Along the lines of @ducks comments I really like the coat of arms of the various cantons of Switzerland, they look really good individually as well as a group, and are well incorporated in the cities and official elements, at least form what I have seen. But I guess they are kind of just like any other coat of arms for a European city.
My absolute favorite flag is the flag for the Japanese Communist Party
It's very simple, while also being very symbolic. Instead of a basic hammer and sickle, it's the two industries which represent them instead (industry and agriculture). It's also a nice inversion from the Red on White color scheme of the current Japanese flag.
Of the Communist flags my favourite has to be the flag of the GDR. I find the modern German flag a little bit too bland.
Ladies and gentlemen, the horror that is the Milwaukee flag
I’m more into heraldry like the other commenter, but it stems from being in the Air Force. Every squadron, wing, and group patch has to be submitted to the heraldry office (can’t remember the exact name) for review to make sure it complies with USAF standards, to make sure the colors make sense (they need a reason for each color), and to make sure that it draws on patches used by predecessors (if the squadron used a Pegasus in the 1950s and was deactivated, and then reactivated in the present, the new patch should probably have a Pegasus).
I always enjoyed peeping into the vexillology sub on Reddit. Notably, a lot of US states have really dreadful flags. An illegible seal on a banner is not a good flag! I could see these crowdsourced designs eventually leading to movements to replace these crappy flags with something better. It is fun to see what new creative spins people put on them.
I suppose I am not into it as much for the historical background as I am to see how new generations of people choose to symbolize their cultures.
Yep, absolutely.