Many flags around the world are iconic, think the ones of France, Canada, South Africa, the Nordics, etc.
However, there are some that aren’t as good, like the Australian and New Zealand flags, both of which still retain the union jack with little Indigenous symbolism. Speaking as an Australian myself, our flag isn’t all that great! The Southern Cross is cool, but there is no hint of green/gold, and the union jack just looks tacked on. There are also many flags that look good, but the symbolism represents ideas that you’re against. Think Iran’s flag that draws heavily from their sect of Islam and the theocracy, or the PRC’s flag having the smaller stars representing the people surrounding the larger star representing the one party state. There’s also some that are okay, but a bit boring and hard of distinguish from the rest, and an additional element would make it stand out more.
And purple should be on more flags! Republican Spain during the 1930s had some purple, but they lost the civil war and the flag was replaced.
If you could change the national flags of the world, what would be your flag proposals?
There are many valid opinions, but these aren’t, I’m sorry to say
Laser kiwi is cool, and the proposals to include more Maori symbolism are great too!
The Swiss flag should stay the same, since all squares are rectangles! Plus you have the Vatican being quite square too
As an Aussie, green and gold is not an ugly combination, it’s one of the greatest!
Tricolours are cool, and they’re not all bad! Estonia’s is probably my favourite (all the Baltics have great flags), but France and the Netherlands were some of the OGs, and Germany is pretty distinct too. Gabon and Sierra Leone have pretty underrated tricolours too.
Laser kiwi is a cool meme flag but a terrible national flag. All the proposed flags we got shown look souless and have no meaning. We already got Maori symbolism on our flag its the southern cross constellation.
I didnt know about the Vatican being square but stretch that out to.
The square Swiss flag works well because of the cross. If it were oblong, it would look unbalanced with the cross in the middle.
And the Swiss flag can be easily represented with a 5x5 grid of pixels, which is pretty cool!