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wft cilantro and corriander are the same thing?

ranting about flag rules

To preface, I understand that these aren't supposed to be rules. They're considerations. And I think at that, they can be good to keep in mind. Most of them at least. I just take issue with it when people try to treat them as rules.

Keep It Simple. The flag should be so simple that a child can draw it from memory.

Sure avoiding unnecessary details is important in design, but “a child should be able to draw it from memory”? That‘s vague and seems to be an arbitrary limit to me. What counts as a child being able to draw it from memory? Should a child have to draw every curve and piece of shading on the California flag to the dot? Or can they just draw a bear? Because I would argue that symbol is more important than shape.

Use Meaningful Symbolism. The flag's images, colors, or patterns should relate to what it symbolizes.

I mean. Yeah? Sure symbolism is important but let's be honest. A flag will always represent its country whether it has any deeper meaning or not. Because it's a flag. While there absolutely should be at least something relating to what a flag symbolizes on its design, it doesn't have to apply to every element. “This looks good” is a great argument.

Use 2 or 3 Basic Colors. Limit the number of colors on the flag to three which contrast well and come from the standard color set.

3?! Who decided on 3? You won't even make it to India if you try to draw every flag with 3 colors much less the pride flag with its 7. Merging similar colors to get a cleaner and less noisy design is a good rule of thumb, but a hard limit of color count is just confusing. Perhaps it made more sense when dyes were expensive, but we live in the era of color printing.

No Lettering or Seals. Never use writing of any kind or an organization's seal.

I can kind of understand where this one is coming from, a logotype is not a flag. We can all agree on that. But no text, ever? What kind of a rule is that! That would be like me saying “never use the color green”. Letters are shapes too and they can improve a design! Brazil would be a much worse flag without its text.

This rule gets much worse when people try to apply to state flags. While a country flag has to be universal and simplified enough that it can be used to represent a country; state flags, at least in the US, are more often used like banners than logos. A good state flag should represent its state, and text is an excellent way to do that. The blue background seal flags aren't bad flags because they don't follow these rules, but because they break, what is in my opinion the most important rule in design. And luckily it's next.

Be Distinctive or Be Related. Avoid duplicating other flags, but use similarities to show connections.

Honestly, I think this is a great rule- for anything. Hard rules create creative droughts *glances at Minisotta’s flag*. It's just weird that's it's held at the same level as the others. I would only supplement it with one other rule. Be Memorable.

Made a thing that “summarizes“ text by looping through a string, and cutting everything out between 2 repeated words: https://redstrider.neocities.org/text_compress

24×24 texture packs are hella underrated. more room for detail then 16×16 but without the blobby oversmoothness of 32×32.

sixty-four years is

33,661,440 minutes

and one minute is a

long time . . . . . . . .

Finally saw the Minecraft movie.

la la la lava

ch ch ch chicken

i just saw this post after i got back from surfing(during which a 10ft wave did in fact collapse on me.) did wasteof like, read my mind or smthn?

the dow jones just fell down to 0 and it’s going to be a fine swell day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elizAugXVcI

Mobile first design has ruined the entire internet. Everything needs to have side margins bigger than the content itself now apparently.

sixth

it’s messed up that salt is the only rock people eat how come when i eat any other rocks people look at me like a madman but salt,,. nah.

The fact that MS Paint includes an ai image generation tool, an ai remove background tool, and an ai generative erase tool, but still not a way to rotate by something other than 90 degrees perfectly encapsulates everything I hate about companies putting “ai“ in everything because they can.

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