Randomly generated flags based on common national and city flag patterns and vexillological principles.
The flag patterns are largely based on actual national and city flags, with variations that may not be in use.
Click on a flag to see a formulaic (and possibly inaccurate) vexillological description and cross references to existing flags using this pattern.
François Best's Representing SHA-256 Hashes As Avatars inspired me to think about flags as avatars. Square flags at small sizes are easily distinguishable. This could be an interesting application.
This started as a hack, written completely client-side, and so a few files were copied in directly.
- https://github.com/eligrey/FileSaver.js - for saving flags
- https://chir.ag/projects/ntc/ - Name that Color functionality used to describe the flag colors; this uses a huge palette, and could more usefully be restricted to a simple color palette
- https://github.com/developit/snarkdown
- https://nava.org/good-flag-bad-flag
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_vexillology
- https://fotw.info - a great resource I used a lot
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_city_flags
- https://www.civicheraldry.co.uk/wales_current.html - examples of heraldic description
- https://rarebooks.library.nd.edu/digital/heraldry/charges/ordinaries_4.shtml
- https://www.internationalheraldry.com/
- https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Heraldry-For-Beginners.pdf
- https://www.theheraldrysociety.com/articles/the-language-of-blazon/
- https://www.flagcolorcodes.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Association_of_the_United_States
- https://usafpatches.com/reference-shelf/palettes/
- https://drawshield.net/
- https://drawshield.net/resources/downloads/poster-plain.pdf
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinary_(heraldry)
- https://heraldica.hypotheses.org/4623 - Interesting notes on German use of three sizes for fess, etc.
- https://www.heraldica.org/topics/glossary/atlas.htm - Very useful visual atlas with many options in multiple languages GOOD
- http://herald.poore-house.com/design/chevronsandpiles/ - Excellent explanation of Chevrons, Piles, etc.
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Heraldry in America, by Zieber, Eugene https://archive.org/details/gri_33125013598905/page/n277/mode/1up
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The Manual of Heraldry, Being a Concise Description of the Several Terms Used, and Containing a Dictionary of Every Designation in the Science By Sir Francis James Grant · 1894 https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Manual_of_Heraldry/6MJsAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Heraldic+Dictionary+by+James+Dignan&printsec=frontcover
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Pimbley's dictionary of heraldry by Pimbley, Arthur Francis https://archive.org/details/pimbleysdiction00pimbgoog
Note: Fess = 1/3, Bar = 1/5, Closet = 1/2 Bar, Barrulet = 1/4 Bar
Note: Pale = 1/2; Pallet = 1/2 Pale, Endorse = 1/4 Pale
Note: Bend = 1/3 width when charged, or 1/5 otherwise; Bendlet = 1/2 Bend, Cost (or Cotise) = 1/4 Bend, Riband or Ribbon is Cotise with ends trimmed
Cotised is when something is surrounded by two cotises