I think you might try different shades, tints, saturations, and ratios for the colors. I find that you can get any two clashing colors to work well together if you find just the right versions of them. A lighter blue, for instance, would probably do the first and second versions a favor, and a more faded, subdued, fleshy-colored red would benefit all of them. It also has the effect of making it look more like cloth and less like RGB code.
Really like Flag 4.I took some of the advice into consideration and decided to tinker with the second flag a bit, coming down to these fourView attachment 344765Flag 1: The hues with the red stripes are brightened to a color to that of the original French flag with a lighter blue hue, both colors changed in their respective areas of stars as well
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Flag 2: The hues with the red stripes are darkened to a color to that of the American flag with a lighter blue hue, both colors changed in their respective areas of stars as well
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Flag 3: Both red and blue are darkened to similar hues of the American flag in a more weathered cloth appeal to connect to the green
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Flag 4: Only the red stripes get the French red treatment with the blue getting the weathered American treatment
Flag Interlude #1
"The end of 1687 was not the end of rebellion. Though without leadership, small groups of Protestant extremists plagued the British Isles for a few years yet. The groups first began using orange as a reference to William III, Prince of Orange, whom they viewed as a martyr for their cause of a Catholic-free England. The flag that came to be associated with them was originally a combination of the English and Scottish flags, meant to show solidarity; over time, orange strips were used rather than red, to show a 'papist-free' England in Union with Scotland, which was viewed by many as already 'pure' given its large Covenanter population. Roll the hands of the clock forward a few centuries, and general modifications and corruption of descriptions results in the banner known today as the 'Orangemen's Flag', in which the white and blue of the Scottish saltire is inverted, that is used by a number of English-speaking organizations, both in the British Isles and not, that champion Anti-Catholic and often Anti-Judean agendas.
Original Orangemen Flag used by Protestant Rebels post-1687
Modern Orangemen Flag"
- The Little Book of Flags, 1983
Here's a small low-effort things I did: a flag proposal for an Israeli-Palestinian federation.
It includes a blue stripe and a green stripe - representing, respectively, Israeli Jews and Palestinians, while doing away with the overtly-nationalist symbology (like the star of David) as neither side will be able to identify with the other side's national symbols, on a white background representing peace (also, white appears in both the Israeli and Palestinian flags, so it could be seen as a unifying element on the flag). A vertical stripe runs in the middle, connecting both colors - this represents socialism (because honestly, an Israeli-Palestinian federation would probably be quite left-wing), and it runs vertical to connect the green and the blue - thus it stands for solidarity between the working classes of both nations, and the red also represents the blood shed in the (now-past) conflict between the two peoples.
What if you add a gold stripe for prosperity and Jerusalem, and then a star to represent the Christian population (i.e. Star of Bethlehem)?
-BahamasSome Alternate Commonwealth of Nation flags.
Guess the Nation: