1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background

50 pointsposted 4 hours ago
by davidbarker
(1worldflag.com)

23 Comments

adzm

3 hours ago

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?

fiatpandas

28 minutes ago

I also love the transparency and am surprised it hasn’t been used more. Granted, it would be very difficult to achieve with natural materials and also be durable. A flag should be able to withstand an ocean voyage exposed to the elements.

alm4x

2 hours ago

The website mentions silk organza at https://1worldflag.com/flag/. That's where my mind went initially, some kind of sheer silk fabric. I don't know how durable it would be in the elements though.

kelseyfrog

2 hours ago

The microplastics inherent in synthetics is the point.

et1337

an hour ago

Can’t wait for CGP Grey’s review of this flag

nickandbro

21 minutes ago

This will be needed for the galactic civil wars that will soon take place.

rrgok

2 hours ago

I don't like the color blue. Can we change it?

seirim

31 minutes ago

Add a favicon for your website, a blue dot is a no-brainer here.

rolymath

an hour ago

Judging by the comments here, the 1worldflag should have been a picture of two people arguing.

grebc

an hour ago

Yes! Classic.

We don’t have an outside enemy atm so we squabble amongst ourselves, it’s a pattern as old as humans have gathered into groups.

s20n

2 hours ago

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.

moss_dog

44 minutes ago

What do you mean by "wrong"?

I reckon the actual color doesn't matter as long as it's blue-ish. There are no branding guidelines or anything. Even the size of the circle is unspecified, which IMO is a feature, not a bug. It's accessible :)

EDIT: I'm incorrect, there is a spec. Whelp! I still like my imagined more-flexible version of the flag.

dylan604

an hour ago

Maybe they couldn't find American Flag Blue??? Or is that reserved for swimming pools now?

ARandomerDude

19 minutes ago

What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?

lanyard-textile

2 hours ago

Love the idea.

But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an undesirable quality in flags.

xgkickt

2 hours ago

Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)

dylan604

an hour ago

I was disappointed it wasn't a pale blue dot as well.