Flag Stories — a project by ferdio, an infographic agency.
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- Strangely enough, purple is not represented at all.
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- Two thirds of all national flags include a symbol.
Basically we started looking at all the flags in the world and squeezed all the data we could possibly gather in to a blank spreadsheet. The more we dug into it, the more stories we managed to reveal, so our plan is to keep digging and continuously adding new stories to the project.
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- Hypothetical flag designs, each representing an entire continent using the most common colours, symbols and layouts used within that continent.
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- One third of all flags belong to seven main families.
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- Each national flag has its own meaning behind the colours, resulting in many combinations of meaning and colour.
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- Most colonies used the same proportions as their colonists.
Many, many more flag infographics at Flag Stories. (via Co.Design)
See also
- The Flag of Planet Earth — Oskar Pernefeldt’s graduation project at Beckmans College of Design.
- Airport Codes — Every airport has a unique three-letter IATA code. Some make sense if you know the city or the name of the airport and others, well, what the heck?
- Mapping the Online World — an atlas redrawn according to the number of registrations within each country’s internet domain* — whether .uk for the UK, .de for Germany, .cn for China, and so on.
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