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Re:Free Flag Icons by rhplus on Thursday October 18, 2012 @10:15AM (#4668822)
A bit of advice: avoid using flags altogether in your user interface unless you really, really need to refer to specific national/political entities. There's far too much room for error or offense, whether you're incorrectly assigning the wrong flag to a geographical region or have not represented the flag correctly. I haven't looked at the flag set, but I'm betting there are errors related to the correctness of layout, aspect ratios and colors and to the clarity of symbols and text.

Even more importantly, never use a flag to represent a language choice.

(* most major websites do avoid using flags, but one notable exception is Apple, which completely corrupts every single flag with their own shiny style: http://www.apple.com/choose-your-country/ ...)

Re:Free Flag Icons by visualidiot on Thursday October 18, 2012 @10:22AM (#4668868)
A bit of advice: actually look at something before judging it. If you'd downloaded, you'd know that they all look correct.
Re:Free Flag Icons by Strom on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:00PM (#4669376)
I downloaded it and looked at Estonia's flag. It's all wrong. I don't personally care, it looks close enough, but some people might take issue with this.

The ratio is 3:2, but the correct ratio is 11:7. The colors are wrong, both the gradients and flat versions. The correct RGB colors are well defined. [1]

[1] Colors and ratio are defined on this page http://valitsus.ee/et/riigikantselei/riigi-ja-omavalitsuste-...

Re:Free Flag Icons by timparker on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:29PM (#4669504)
It's a set of flag icons for the web, it's not to hang off the government building.

If we did exact aspect ratios for every flag they would all be different and look shit. We tried to be as exact as possible with colors and shapes, if they don't work for you guys or are not close enough then you don't need to use them.

Not aimed directly at you, just at anyone who doesn't find them precise enough.

Re:Free Flag Icons by digisign on Thursday October 18, 2012 @12:45PM (#4669564)
Agree about aspect ratios, but we should expect rgb colors to be accurate.
Re:Free Flag Icons by timparker on Thursday October 18, 2012 @01:37PM (#4669905)
If you check out the flat flags the colors are exact, obviously the styled ones have subtle shadowing etc, and are probably out by a very small margin.
Re:Free Flag Icons by vacri on Thursday October 18, 2012 @09:27PM (#4671886)
I checked out Estonia from above and the colour doesn't match the examples on Wikipedia. I've also checked out the Australian flag, and it's eyeball-different - the blue in the real flag is closer to navy blue. The blue should be #002B7F, but a colour picker tells me that the 64x64 flat flag has a blue of #003399.

It's not a big problem in my opinion - no-one should be overly hung up about minor anomalies like that for web icons - but it's not true to say the colours are exact.

Re:Free Flag Icons by rhplus on Thursday October 18, 2012 @10:42AM (#4668975)
You're completely missing my point. I'm recommending against using flags at all, correct or otherwise. It's just too much of a sensitive issue for many users.

And to your point about correctness: there are specific issues such as illegible text in the Saudi flag and general issues such as the use or gradients or borders throughout.

Re:Free Flag Icons by jenius on Thursday October 18, 2012 @10:27AM (#4668888)
+100 on this comment