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Language flags #101
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Hi @guillemc23, the
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That slight misalignment of the horizontal/vertical bands is bothering me a bit, not gonna lie 😅 Have you considered scaling up the Mexico flag a bit (or even —gasp— adjusting the proportions of the flags slightly) so that the divisions align? |
By the way, if it's not asking too much, would you consider also one for Portuguese? There are some examples here. I kinda like this one given its simplicity: A while ago I made some experiments myself with a simplified hybrid: So perhaps something more straightforward, like this, would work better: |
The misalignment exists in the example flag that @guillemc23 posted: |
Yes, sure but these simplified flags already take some artistic liberty anyway, so additional adjustments to make them align wouldn't be totally out of place. That said, I did a quick experiment and I'm not convinced that an aligned version works better: The top and right stripes being lined up kind of break the diagonal division effect in the upper right corner of the drawing. Of course, we could also add a dividing line there, but it certainly doesn't feel as neat: So maybe it is indeed best to just keep them as-is — which has the added benefit of being compatible with the existing es and mx flags. |
How's this?
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I think this looks very neat! The misalignment feels a bit weird but I think that's how it should be and so it's best to keep it that way. I also liked that you included both coat of arms even if they collide at the center. I'm only concerned by the philosophical dilema of "Does the mexican flag represent Spanish speaking America well enough?" but I have seen this flag in various sites simbolyzing the Spanish language, so I think it will do 😂
I also think this design works perfectly fine. I have also thought of other widespread language like French, and I have found these results: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_internationale_de_la_Francophonie |
Nice! By brain keeps trying to come up with ways to make the designs align (e.g. move the yellow circle of the Portugal flag to the center so that it matches the blue circle of the Brazil flag, or just move it slightly so that its border continues seamlessly from the border of Brazil flag's lozenge), but I don't think we gain much either aesthetically or practically from such efforts. So yeah, to me it's good to keep as-is!
I was thinking that this issue is pretty open-ended; maybe we should try to cover the top most spoken languages as a threshold to close the issue? According to Wikipedia's List of languages by total number of speakers and List of languages by number of native speakers, these are the languages that have the most speakers (both native and as a second-language):
WDYT? |
Arabic already has a flag. The flag looks a lot like the Saudi Arabian but it actually says "arabic" in the center, so it's easy to miss 😄
I agree that this issue is open ended, but I don't think all of those languages need to have a specific flag. A vast majority of Russian or Japanese are from Russia or Japan. I don't think it's about the number of speakers, I think it has to do with how the speakers are distibuted. |
That's kind of my point, though. We might want to explicitly decide whether to have a custom language flag for those languages, or use the one of the country overwhelmingly associated with them. I will add Arabic, Japanese and Russian flags above. We probably can do the same for Hindi, Chinese and Vietnamese. Not exactly sure about the others — e.g. Western Punjabi appears to be associated with Pakistan more so than India, even though the flag for the Punjabi language, https://hatscripts.github.io/circle-flags/flags/language/pa.svg, defaults to the flag of India. |
I'm not sure if this has been already considered, but what about a flag to represent the English language to be used on a language selector? I'm thinking of something like half US half UK. The same could be done with other widespread languages like Spanish.
Amazing library by the way, so glad I found it!
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