alt Hacker News1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background
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Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld colonies.
I like the idea to have a symbol to unite the world under one flag.
The blue dot seems to make sense as it represents the world without focusing on one perspective or projection of the world map. The transparent background also makes sense for the flag, but I think it would be more recognizable if it was just a white background (in my mind the default flag background).
Also it seems to me transparent materials are in general more polluting. On the website it mentions a black background was considered (I suppose representing space). It would be nice if there was an alternative version chosen without the transparency for mediums where transparency is not an option either black or white would suffice imho.
As others mentioned it does seem very similar (same proportions) as the Japanese flag. I wonder what the opinion of the Japanese is on this concept.
Transparency in a flag is new to me. It's surprisingly effective here. Could this be done with just cloth without synthetics by using thinner threads or thread count?
The Land of the Rising Sea.
I would live to see the transparency around the funding and goals of this project.
Judging by the comments here, the 1worldflag should have been a picture of two people arguing.
Like all flags, this will come to represent those who choose to fly it, and the causes they fly it for. Which then makes them symbols of the ideas opposed by people who think flag waving is cringe.
Holy typo… does the one world not have proofreaders?
This will be needed for the galactic civil wars that will soon take place.
Love the idea.
But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an undesirable quality in flags.
I like the direction of unity but this will probably be problematic when we eventually start to colonize other planets. I don't want our first settlers to feel discriminated, so please kindly make a new version with more universality - now that I think about it, Universal Pictures also has the world in their logo so maybe this IS universal but we probably we need Jim and Hannah in the loop as well so they can chime in, and last but not least, we need a review from the legal so I CC'd to all, expect some new ideas/requirements.
Also, can we please make it "pop"?
ps. Attaching a version I made, and this took a lot of back and forth with chatgpt because I care about this a lot, so please have a look, I think we are close to something great here!
Looking forward to seeing more from you!
ps2. when I was about to send our manufacturing guy entered the room and he said the transparency could be a problem. Some alternatives without compromising the idea would be great! They must be cheap but elegant! Thank you!!
Try to add a favicon for the website if you can guys, a blue dot would work well here.
Looks too much like japan’s flag.
Let’s try an earth and a sunrise behind it - half a circle sitting on the bottom of the rectangle, and a yellow circle making a sunrise on top of that, like a yolk sitting on a blue egg.
but that's the wrong shade of blue? It'd have been great if they took the colour from "The blue marble" instead of this Turbo Pascal blue.
What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?
Looks like something out of 1997.
the most european thing i’ve seen today
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Esperanto flag.
I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current nation states should be dismantled.
It should be a different color, because this will be attached to either politics (which you don't want) or EU (which you also don't want), some completely independent color could actually trigger curiosity to look it up.
There are lots of world flags: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Earth https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Earth_Flag_Simple.sv...