Re: Conlang Flag Design

B. Garcia wrote:

> Here's my Design.
>
> Yes. it's based off of the basic look of the Philippine Flag, but only
> because I dig triangular areas near hasts.
>
> http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v377/Doobieous/language/flag.jpg
I'd like to see some sort of rationale before I add it to the page.
What do the colours stand for? I assume purple is still creativity?
What's the black and white? Without the shapes to match, the symbolism
can't be the same as the other flags, but it has to mean something.

The mouth is a bit cartoonish for my taste.

> I think the more recent ones are far too busy. It's like the South
> African flag, pretty but a visual drug trip. There's just too much
> pattern going on.
Hmm, OK, well, obviously compromises are inevitable; what is needed is
a flag representing some midpoint between the suggestions advocated by
those who prefer the simplest designs and the suggestions advocated by
those who prefer the most intricate designs.

The design *could* be simplified - the most obvious way would be to
get rid of the vowel diagram (which is not necessary) and move the
rest down a bit (to make it more vertically centred). I'd still prefer
to have the tongues meet in a knot at the centre, but having them
back-to-back was just a way of making them easier to draw.

Personally, I think the reconciliation flag is kind of cool:
http://www.ausflag.com.au/new/recon.html

BTW, compromise also has to be the way to go in choosing the right
shade of purple - for those people who advocate a flag with purple on
it. After I've posted this, I'll update the site so that the light
purple is a tad darker and the dark purple a tad lighter, in the hope
that we can eventually "centre in" on a compromise shade (of course,
we may very well end up choosing a design with no purple in it at
all, such as a variation on David's).

Adrian.

P.S. My feeling is that when 24 hours pass with no new submissions and
no new comments on existing submissions, that should mark the moment
to start thinking seriously about a selection process.