Oop, forgot to post the symbolism. Just posted that in a separate comment.
When I was going through redesigning all of the U.S. state flags, this is one of the first designs I made. Here’s the symbolism:
The colors are reminiscent of the orange, white, & blue pattern used in many of New York’s state flag.
The white shape in the center holds several meanings.
This is my take on a flag for Kbin, a fediverse thread aggregator like Lemmy (and the one that I use). There isn’t that much to the symbolism behind it. There’s magneta because there’s magenta in the logo, and there’s a slash to go with the shape of the logo.
I also used this flag for the icon of this community’s Kbin equivalent: @vexillology.
What’s that even supposed to be? Even ignoring it’s… distinct shape, it seems like it was just a bad idea from the beginning.
Since I already like Rhode Island’s flag a lot, I didn’t want to go too far from the original design. I decided to make the following three changes:
This flag was used by the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya. As you can see, it has a very intricate design rich with symbolism.
This is a really nice flag! You’re right to feel confident about the geometry—it’s great. The colors, however, could use some work.
Continuing with the trend of vexillological organizations having their own flags, the Flag Society of Australia has one. While the flag within the flag looks really cool and has a nice color palette, I think the flag as a whole looks a bit odd. The Southern Cross looks weird since its stars are crowded closer together but not shrunken themselves, and the arrangement of everything just doesn’t work imo.
When I made this flag, I used red to symbolize the violent history of the Kansas Territory, a yellow stripe at the bottom to evoke a wheat field (given that one of Kansas’s nicknames is the Wheat State), and a sunflower at the top left. I didn’t notice the communist connotation of a red flag with a yellow symbol in the canton until someone pointed it out back when I posted this on Reddit. I still really like how the design looks, though maybe it’d be best to change the red to blue.
100% agree. I don’t have pine trees on all my New England flag redesigns (just New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Maine), but I might make versions where all of them do, maybe with the same pine tree design.
Thanks for the feedback!
I’ve honestly never thought of the Mexico comparison, though I can kinda see it now. I think the buff center and the pine tree are enough to differentiate it from the Mexican flag, though I may flip the green and red.
The tree design was taken directly from Maine’s ensign, and the star position came from Maine’s old flag. As for the Texas point, the lone star is used in other U.S. state flags, like those of Arizona and California (and North Carolina but that one does just look like a Texas flag ripoff), so I don’t think it’s unfitting to use it here, especially since it was on the old flag.
Symbolism:
EDIT: Fixed an error.
He seems to really like “Maryland-style” flags, which just have a ton going on all over the place. I don’t really like those kinds of flags, though honestly New Brunswick’s isn’t that bad. The top and bottom strips each stick to a solid color on a solid background (yellow on red for the top and white on blue for the bottom). I’m not a huge fan of the middle strip with the ship — I think it would be better if it stuck to solid color on solid color like the top and bottom — but it doesn’t use that many colors and goes well with the water.
I much prefer this flag for Maine compared to the current one, which is just the state’s coat of arms on a blue field. It’s much more unique compared to other flags and does a great job symbolizing Maine’s nickname: the Pine Tree State.
Additionally, there’s this more recent version of the old flag, which uses the pine tree from Maine’s state ensign. This is probably my favorite, and I’d like to see it or something similar become Maine’s flag in the future.
Don’t blame him tbh. F1953 was my favorite out of the 6 finalists, so I’m glad to see that it’s going to become an actual state flag.
Now let’s hope that they don’t mess it up with all of the changes they’re making….
As you can probably guess from the image I gave this post, my favorite is the flag of Bhutan. The yellow & orange create a distinctive & satisfying background, and the dragon in the center makes for a strong focal point that doesn’t clash with the background due to its simple color palette.
A close second would probably be the flag of South Africa. The pattern and colors here are just really nice, dunno what else to say.
To each their own. I’d say there’s a good bit of NH symbolism, with the white & yellow triangles evoking the White Mountains, the yellow evoking granite like it does on the seal, and the blue symbolizing the harbors of NH (tbf, I probably didn’t have all of this symbolism in mind back when I created the flag, but I can still easily see it as a NH flag given that this symbolism fits it well). There is a lot of NE symbolism, and it definitely jumps out at you with the flag having a pine tree and all, but I don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing.
EDIT: Added parenthetical.
I get not liking the yellow and white triangles touching, but I think they kinda look like a shaded white pyramid, evoking the White Mountains which give New Hampshire one of its nicknames.
From what I can gather, this particular design was proposed by Puerto Rico’s New Progressive Party (Partido Nuevo Progresista or PNP), which advocates for Puerto Rican statehood. The circle definitely has its appeal, though I think I’d prefer something closer to the current flag.