![]() It can also mean surrender, but in a proud sense, such as surrender to God, or surrender to truth, et cetera.Įxamples: Algeria, Cyprus, Finland, Israel, Singapore, South Korea. White: White is the colour of truce, aspiration, peace, purity, innocence and mourning. It also symbolises determination, ethnic heritage, fortitude, and a long period of foreign occupation.Įxamples: Afghanistan, Angola, Estonia, Iraq, Libya, Papua New Guinea. Agricultural prosperity, crops, gold and African nations are symbolised in yellow also.Įxamples: Bhutan, Brunei, Columbia, Ecuador, Grenada, Ukraine.īlack: Black is a strong, serious colour, and describes struggle, grief and death. Yellow: Yellow is used to show that a nation is bathed in sun, wealthy or resource-rich. It also represents Islam.Įxamples: Brazil, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Zambia.īlue: Representing water and the sky, blue symbolises justice, prosperity and coastal, island or Turkic countries.Įxamples: Botswana, El Salvador, Kazakhstan, Micronesia, Somalia, St Lucia. Green: Green is a peaceful colour that is often given as a healing colour, representing nature, agriculture, fertility, hope, love and culture. It is a very commonly used colour, and denotes a brave and warlike nation.Įxamples: Albania, China, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey. Red: Red is a colour associated with blood, war, strength, bravery, hardiness, bloodshed, revolution and Communism. Not that a charge or insignia in no way has to be symmetrical, but the field and basic design should be, whether horizontally or vertically. Symmetry: A symmetrical flag is a good flag, as it encourages simplicity. Look to the flag of the Central African Republic, which is so complicated and colourful that it is known to induce Epileptic fits. Note that over-complicated insignia on a flag can also do the same thing. They reduce the memorability of a flag, and thus reduce its efficacy. Some forms can be used, most notably on the flag of Saudi Arabia, with the Shahada.Ĭolours: Beware of too many colours on a flag, as they can often be unnecessary, and over-complicate a design. It also provides problems for repeating the flag's design on the reverse of the flag. Text: Text on a flag is discouraged, as it makes the flag messy, over complicated, and non-symmetrical. This helps keep the flag sensible and eye-catching. A metal is either gold, silver or white, and could not touch another metal, just as two colours could not touch. A 'colour' and a 'metal' were the two main colour components. Heraldry: Heraldic rules apply to Coats of Arms and occasionly to flags in general. 1:2 ratio indicates a flag twice as wide as it is high. Ratio: The relative proportions of a flag, height against width. Staff: The flagpole from which the flag is hung. įly: The half of the flag furthest away from the flagpole, or staff. ![]() įield: The basic background colour of the flag.Hoist: The half of the flag closest to the flagpole, or staff. Ĭharge: An emblem or insignia that is added onto the flag's basic design.Heraldry was the art of producing and recording Coats of Arms in the middle ages and had strict rules, and as such flags developed in a very unique way in Europe, and also makes states without heraldry, typically outside Europe, the ability to make far more complex flags.Ĭanton: Any quarter of a flag, but most often refers to the top-left quarter of the flag. Most flags in the modern world are now designed to the rules of heraldry, or the rules of Coats of Arms. Soon, the Arabs developed what we would call a true flag, as it was attached to a vertical pole at the hoist. For example, the Vexillum, was used by Roman cavalry, and gave its name to the study of flags. Each unit of the Roman army had cloth banners, with the insignia of the unit stitched on them. Flags were later adopted by such peoples as the Ancient Greeks and Romans, whereupon the Romans popularised them, as they made most use of these. cloth banners, are from China, used for identifying Chinese armies. Roman VexillumThe earliest flags on record, i.e. ![]()
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