Ontario Flag needs replacing

[Johnny Au]

Wondering if someone flew the Manitoba flag, would anyone notice it is the wrong flag for Ontario?

From link.

This could have been Manitoba's flag:

Yes, it's the Manitoba Centennial flag, but drop the "1970" and it passes as a provincial flag.

 

[Towered]

I'd like to offer the following as a variation, worked out by me and couple of friends of mine, on this excellent design.

• This version preserves the colours we've had for 50 years and a lot of our history is winked at, but now it looks modern, clean, fairly simple, but expressive with FNTS's design.
• The blue at the hoist is meant to be evocative of the Great Lakes. The red evokes Canada. The gold from current flag becomes the stamen and pistols of the trillium, which typically are yellow. We kept the trillium white, of course, and maintained the field of green, which is on the current flag and is evocative of the Franco-Ontarien flag. These colours give quiet nods to the Union Jack and the Franco-Ontarien flag without actually being either, and the only explicit iconography remains FNTS's trillium, which stands for everyone in Ontario.
• Our thinking in reversing the trillium is a simple matter of preference: in cultures that read left-to-right, elements that face left are evocative of the past, retreat, or warning. Elements that face right tend to imply the future, progress, and hope. It also means the icon is unlikely to suffer even if the flag becomes battered and frayed.

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That's actually a very decent flag - one of the better proposals for Ontario that I've seen. Do you happen to have a version where all three points of the trillium are visible? I'm curious how that would look - it looks a bit odd with two of the ends cut off.

 

[Northern Light]

Probably a bit too busy with so many elements, though perhaps in stylized form it could work. Maybe I'll try to whip something up.

Did you ever manage to 'whip'? LOL

 

[Lone Primate]

That's actually a very decent flag - one of the better proposals for Ontario that I've seen. Do you happen to have a version where all three points of the trillium are visible? I'm curious how that would look - it looks a bit odd with two of the ends cut off.

You need to go back in the thread and ask FNTS, it's actually his design. I could reverse-engineer it in Illustrator, but he's likely got the original design of it. Mind you, I understand why it's cut off the way it is. He has it set such that the point falls exactly on the 3/4 mark on the flag's 'equator', which I think is a really sharp idea.

 

[Towered]

You need to go back in the thread and ask FNTS, it's actually his design. I could reverse-engineer it in Illustrator, but he's likely got the original design of it. Mind you, I understand why it's cut off the way it is. He has it set such that the point falls exactly on the 3/4 mark on the flag's 'equator', which I think is a really sharp idea.

Ah yes, I found his original design. I like your take on it - shifting the trillium towards the hoist and adding those colours really makes it pop.

@FNTS , do you have a design with the whole trillium visible?

 

[Towered]

Did you ever manage to 'whip'? LOL

Unfortunately not yet, but it's always near my thoughts - I hope to get it to it relatively soon!

 

[Lone Primate]

That's actually a very decent flag - one of the better proposals for Ontario that I've seen. Do you happen to have a version where all three points of the trillium are visible? I'm curious how that would look - it looks a bit odd with two of the ends cut off.

I took a few minutes and gave it a shot. There might be other ways of arranging things, but I have to say, I don't like either flag that shows the whole trillium anywhere near as much as FNTS's original layout. I think he's right about the size. I tried one with the right-pointing tip at the 50% point, and another at the 75% point he placed it originally, but I don't think either one is as bold, exciting, or eye-catching as his original sizing for the trillium. Personally, I think he called the shot there. But, see for yourselves...

 

[PinkLucy]

I do like the left-sided placement better

 

[afransen]

Honestly, not a fan of the blue and green (a bit garish). I'd make it red. I do see Ontario's flag eventually being update to something along these lines, with a trillium.

 

[Johnny Au]

General Knowledge has suggestions for new provincial flags:

Pertinent part begins at 4:19

 

[afransen]

Really the rest of the video is absurd. Someone who doesn't know anything about Canada (beyond the wikipedia page) commenting on an alternate history of the country breaking up. I laughed out loud when he suggested Newfoundland and Quebec would form a union.

 

[Johnny Au]

Really the rest of the video is absurd. Someone who doesn't know anything about Canada (beyond the wikipedia page) commenting on an alternate history of the country breaking up. I laughed out loud when he suggested Newfoundland and Quebec would form a union.

There's a reason why the YouTuber's named General Knowledge, not Overly Specific Knowledge and not Field Marshal Knowledge.

Likewise, Bright Side, another major educational YouTube channel, also doesn't know anything about Canada outside of glancing at Wikipedia:

Major omissions: The Bright Side video mentions completely nothing about the ubiquity of Tim Hortons nor the contributions of Banting & Best (co-invented insulin) nor James Naismith (invented basketball) and the fact that there's plenty of rude Canadians and palm trees can grow outdoors unprotected in Vancouver and Victoria.

 

[afransen]

It's not really knowledge then, just a bunch of uninformed speculation. Brightside is a content farm, kind of like those advertorials you see at the bottom of news sites ("this local mom has this one weird trick, doctors hate her').

 

[FNTS]

@Lone Primate I like what you did with my original design! I think I prefer a more restrained palette but I understand the logic of using familiar colours (and it still looks good), and I agree with flipping it, now that I've learned a bit more about flag design, so thanks for that.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]