As usual, my homestates flag gets a good rating. I saw these flags flying all around Denver, proving our pridefulness over our state. Denver's flag is good, and Colorado's flag is good. Cant say so much about our anthem, however.
Phoenix (Arizona) 2:28 Denver (Colorado) 4:07 Indy/Indianapolis (Indiana) 8:22 Des Moines (Iowa) 9:40 Topeka (Kansas) 10:31 Jackson (Mississippi) 16:13 Lincoln (Nebraska) 17:29 Salem (Oregon) 23:30 Columbia (South Carolina) 24:36 Salt Lake City (Utah) 26:02 Montpelier (Vermont) 26:22 Richmond (Virginia) 27:11 Madison (Wisconsin) 28:56
The "no text" rule is bad. Using images or icons in place of text is good if it's something that's going to be seen very often. But imagine if you went into the settings of an app and there was no text, only icons. Sure, the icons that you see often will be easily recognizable, but for the less common things it'd have been better to just have the text. National flags are going to be seen fairly often by a lot of people, but provincial flags will be seen less often and city flags less often still even for world famous cities. If the city or state/province wants its flag to be recognized by people not living there, text can help. Also, vexillological associations often praise Japanese prefectural flags but a lot of them - maybe even most of them - feature a stylized Japanese character.
For Augusta, Maines Flag. That’s not the State seal it’s the city seal. The State seal is what’s on the state flag. Besides that everything else you said for the flag I agree with.
Minnesota flag just got changed May 11th and i remember when voting for the flags there were so many better options but the flag they picked they tweaked to to make it look more boring 🤦🏽♂️ Edit: Im talking about the state flag Saint Paul's flag is really good
I agree with your rating on the Columbia, South Carolina flag but for different reasons. I think pairing blue with... blue with... uh... blue is an absolutely terrible way to make a flag. Not to throw shade at Minnesota, but any flag that has various shades of blue as its main function just looks horrible which is why I think the new Minnesota flag looks like hog wash.
Honestly, I don't really like the Columbia, SC flag as an SC resident. It looks awkward and messes with me. I do have an idea to fix it, though. I'll even keep the symbolism. The three rivers are represented with weird proportions. If made a vertical tricolor like France, I would personally like it more. Have the colors in the same order as on the original flag. Take the dark blue and use it as an outline like in Wyoming or Montenegro's flag. Keep the flag's original aspect ratio, and make the tricolor centered in the rest of the empty space. Finally, add the 6 pointed star in the center. Is this an improvement, or did I make it worse?
Denver's flag in my opinion is really bad since it doesn't show other cultural things about denver other than mountains, just like Pocatello. meaning the cultures need some representation, and the rules of flags pretty much sucks.
Considering our State flag is usually rated so low (although we definitely have the best seal, our flag is veryuncreative tbh), seeing the Capital City flag was a pleasant surprise
