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Someone get ahold of @[email protected] @[email protected] we have breaking flag news!

https://x.com/brendenmoore13/status/1866578266674634961?s=42

Would love to get a video on the new IL flag, I know you have opinions Grey!

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Direct link to flags here to avoid twitter: https://www.ilsos.gov/special/IFC/10finalists.pdf

2246 and 4321 are my favs

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Personally, I like 4321 (monarch and stars), 4220 (Lincoln's Silhouette and Mississippi), 2246 (striped field), and 200 (Circle of Stars on blue stripes).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Monarch and Stars looks too much like a tramp stamp. I hadn't noticed Lincoln's sillhouette. That one might grow on me. Striped field is my favourite. Circle of Stars on blue stripes is boring.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I feel like Circle of Stars is most solid, but also most boring option. My only reservation with Striped Field is that it feels too corperate. Lincoln's Silhouette is a weird one, but it feels like a good balance between weird and simple/traditional flag design. Monarch and Star, I honestly just like for the butterfly motif. I was trying to think it over, but I can't even pick a favorite. They're all very good designs.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This one is my favourite:

Complex enough to be distinct, but simple enough that a child could draw a recognizable version of it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Complex enough to be distinct, but simple enough that a child could draw a recognizable version of it.

Basically all the finalist designs are really good for this, with the exceptions being the two the with full state siloette, debateably the corn and gears (although I give it a pass for cool factor) and the one that is a identical to the original.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Too boring for me. Looks like a generic adornment on a military officer's uniform.

[–] topherclay 2 points 1 week ago

That shitty website breaks the back button so I have to close the app and reload it to get out of the webviewer.