Flags usually have a meaning behind them about cultures and nations; for obvious reasons, this doesn't link well with me. So, I'm fine with a black sheet.

Nah, I just made it up after I've seen someone else make a communist Toronto flag that just replaced the maple leaf with hammer and sickle.

looks a bit too north korean

shower thoughts response

• most of the good flag designs have been taken by.. well, countries.

• lack of universally understood symbols, i can come up with 5 and one of them goes back to soviet aesthetic

• Flag design requires really strict adherence to design principals that are normally meant to be broken tastefully. This is not inherently bad design for a poster or a protest but as a flag it's cluttered and confusing.

i had some rambling thoughts but trunkating because they're not though out at all. Vox has an interesting 7min video on designing clear symbols wrt the biohazard symbol if anyones curious

The most important rule that seems to be broken constantly is "No text on flags".

If the symbols don't convey the message, you've chosen the wrong symbols.

Further, it demonstrates a sort of insecurity and cluelessness.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_with_Russian-language_text

You have to project the confidence that people already know who you are so that initialisms, mottoes, and text are outright redundant.

Probably because so many of us abhor the whole concept of flag waving.

Some examples would be cool!

Personally I'm uncomfortable with all flags and wary of representation in general; probably don't think about this too much as a result.

I'm not sure what logic has to do with aesthetics, but okay.

Or if the leaf were more under the star, like it were a canoe.

That wouldn't be logical.

It would be cooler if the star were engrained on a flat leaf

That's not the egoist flag, my face is not there.