Puerto Rico and Cuba, the Scandinavians, and for that matter every one of the dozens of plain tribands, would say that helps little…
Albania would just have to grayscale.
Because those flags are the same basic design. The rule of tinctures doesn’t help you with that.
I realised later that this isn’t a perfect example – that’s what comes from being rusty at heraldry – as the canton is sometimes considered a charge (which means that is is lying over the field), which it can do because the stripes are both light and dark and sort of cancel out.
A clearer example would be any tricolour where two of the adjacent stripes are both dark or light, such as Germany’s which is Black, Red, and Gold.
Interesting current event tied to historical flag info.
I was reading "Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865, by Carlton McCarthy recently, and the last chapter discusses the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia, which is the design currently causing much debate in South Carolina (And the US).
It was actually a very interesting history of the battle flag that I had never heard before. General Beauregard’s original design called for a design that was blue with a red “X” or cross, with gold trim and stars. If you look at the flag we are familiar with, flip the blue and red placement, and the white trim and stars would have been gold.
A Colonel Miles, who was contacted by General Beauregard to hear his ideas about designing a battle flag that could be easily distinguished from the union’s flag and the CSA’s “stars and bars” on the battlefield, stated that the blue flag and gold went against the rules of heraldry.
I never knew the original design was a red cross with gold stars on a blue field, but if anyone knows the rules of heraldry, I’d be curious to know if this is consistent.
And for anyone interested, there were a few CSA regiments who used the blue flag with red cross (with white stars) to fight under. A couple of pics for reference:
Actual Army of NoVA battle flag
Similar to proposed original battle flag, except replace white with gold. (I believe this was a flag for a Missouri regiment, but many state regiments used this design, including ones from Mississippi)
http://www.rulen.com/moflag/atm_flag.jpg
I’m not an expert, but from the description, it violates no rule that I am aware of. It certainly doesn’t violate the rule of tincture.
Yellow and white are treated the same in the rule of tincture. If all you were doing was taking the familiar design, flipping the blue and red and exchanging white for yellow, that seems perfectly fine, so far as I know.
Although the design for Puerto Rico’s flag dates back to the 1800s, it was not adopted as the flag of Puerto Rico (and was actually illegal to fly there) until 1952. And Captain America’s costume predates that.
Not just communism: the badge on the Romanian flag was the crest of the Ceaucescus. Romanians had many reasons to hate the Ceaucescus over and above communism.
In Andorra, the coat of arms appears on the state flag. The civil flag—the one that ordinary citizens are allowed to display—doesn’t have it.
Right – if the crest of such “unsatisfactory persons”, in the words of Mr. Carroll, had been on my national flag: I’d want it gone, once they had been disposed of.
Thanks ! Being in mood for quoting Lewis Carroll – “curiouser and curiouser !” Seriously, all this stuff is fascinating.
Syria’s flag is a red, white and black background with two stars. From 1963 till 1991 when the First Gulf War ended, Iraq’s flag was nearly identical, save for the fact that it contained three stars.
After 1991 Saddam Hussein added Arabic script to it, making it much more distinct from that of Syria. Since the 2003 invasion the Iraqis have since made further chances, and now Iraq’s flag contains NO stars and the script has been changed also. Now it is red, white and black with Kufic writing.
Iraq Flag 1963-1991:
Iraq Flag 1991-2003:
Iraq flag Current:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/iz.html
Egypt has the same background with an eagle in the middle, Yemen has only the background and no insignia, with Syria having two stars.
Syria’s flag may be changed if Bashar Assad is forced out of power by rebels. They want this flag, the country’s original.
http://www.theflagshop.co.uk/syrian-flag-1932-1958--1961-1963-4668-p.asp
Much better in my opinion and unique, making it distinctly Syrian and setting it apart.
By the way here is a gallery of current flags of the world, CIA World Factbook.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/docs/flagsoftheworld.html
Jordan, Palestine, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates and Sudan also have similar flags.
But nothing comes close to the case of Chad and Romania in likeness.
Many thanks. I’ve had the impression for pretty well all of my 60+ years, that the Muslim Middle East has always been a headache for the flag-fan: flags often looking more than a little similar to each other, plus a lot of of chopping-and-changing.
The CIA gallery: most interesting; and very thorough – with entries for various basically uninhabited islands belonging to more-prominent nations. I spotted a number of flag changes, of varying orders of magnitude, from my 2003 atlas-endpaper list.
A rather off-topic oddity: CIA gallery gives three just one-nation, one-letter-of-the alphabet, entries: Qatar, Oman, and Yemen – which happen all to be in the Arabian peninsula.