Proposed Country Flags

I echo the comment above - just ugly flags for the most part. Too busy, bad design or just clashing colors/symbols in many cases. Canada's current flag is a prime example of a simple striking design being superior to a more complicated one. Of course, we may just be so used to the current flags that any deviation/alternate design looks strange.

Surprised that Malaysia is the least guessed. It looks very similar to their actual flag.

These all look a mess.

Estonia, Bolivia, and Belgium look nice. The rest are made in MS Paint.

Love the quiz, but that Australia proposal was made in 1992, not 1900:

https://www.flagsaustralia.com.au/designsnewflag.html

bro how was the NZ flag not chosen? It's gas! Also the Australian flag looks too simple. Give me a kangaroo silhouette and now we talking!

the New Zealand flag would be one of the best in the world if they changed to this proposed one.

Spelling in the instructions: One country was not independent...

The Belgian and New Zealand proposals are much better than the current flags. The Australian suggestion is good too, however it looks like a scout's insignia.

What in the MS Paint was Bolivia doing in 2006?

I like the proposed flags for Estonia and New Zealand better than their current ones. I get the symbolism of Canada bringing British (Union Jack) and French (Fleur de lis) settlements together under one Canada (Maple Leaf), but it looks awful. ;)

Great quiz. Due for a U.S. states version?

Spain's looks like someone brought over a png of the insignia and forgot to remove the white background

I can't believe you didn't put the laser kiwi flag in this quiz.

Great quiz

How do 78% of people know the Estonian flag proposal? Not exactly common knowledge!

New zealand's, Estonia's and Taiwan's actually look pretty nice

Taiwan's looks terrible. The minor outlying islands are disgusting little splotches. The shape is asymmetrical and off-center. It sucks. Their current flag is great and has a long heritage.

Dekkie, this is one of the dopest quizzes ever. If there was a Best Quiz award, this quiz should win it. 10/10 quiz.

You get to see some goofy ass flags AND you get to do a quiz at the same time? And there's juuuust enough info to know what country they're all from. Well done sir or ma'am.

It's a good quiz

That Belgium flag goes HARD, there's nothing else like it

That should be their real flag

According to the designer of the ZX Spectrum proposal for Belgium, the current flag reminds the viewer of the old Francophony. I'd be willing to wager it doesn't.

No laser kiwi flag ? :-(

The comments in this thread go HARD.

Australia, why didn't they change?

They should have put the laser kiwi proposal for New Zealand.

I'm from Belgium, aware of the news, and I've never heard about this flag...

those random china colors just hurt to look at

I'm not a fan of this Australian flag. I think both the green and the yellow are pretty ugly shades that don't go well together. I also think the kangaroo is kind of stupid tbh

The Brazilian, American, and French flags look fine, they're pretty much the same. The Canadian one looks like it should be a city flag for Ottawa and it would look great as that. I like the Estonian and Malaysian ones and the Belgian one is surprisingly good, it looks like a cross between a highly abstract modern design and a medieval design while keeping the recognizable flag intact and not too loud. Everything else is terrible except maybe the Spanish one, the white in the Bolivian one looks especially awful like the flag is incomplete. If it was a different color or if the right side tricolor was expanded to fill in the space, I'd say it was cool.

Very easy :)

Reccomended flags usually aren't that good because of the low quality MS Paint feeling, the bad colors, and the nonsense the these flags might portay. There are also some good ones like the New Zealand one and the Belgium one.

how dare you not use the laser kiwi

Nearly all of them look awful

OOO, I like New Zealand! The rest are bad though...

the flag of new zealand is way better than what it is now (side eying the union jack in the corner and also because i always confuse it with the australian flag)

Belgiums flag looks really cool, but not as a flag

The Belgium and Israel flags look so much cooler than their current ones.

That one for Taiwan tricked me im not very familiar with shapes of countries just flags but so if I had more knowledge it would have helped but dang how was i supposed to know that was taiwan

I love these, especially the Belgium and Bolivia ones, it's like in art class when the teacher tells you to design your own flag