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Allows language-to-language translation of text, documents and/or excerpts, and websites. Supports over 130 languages.
A French website that helps its user to find and to recognise the various flags of the world by clicking sets of corresponding buttons to describe the colours, the arrangements of the colours, and the patterns of the flag that the user wants to identify.
A website that helps its user to find and to recognise the various flags of the world by clicking sets of buttons. Particularly informative regarding flag shapes and symbolic devices. Provides relevant facts from a database of more than 1,300 flags.
A highly-regarded flag identification and research tool, the Flag Wizard offers a highly intuitive interface and the unique search and indexing feature of a clickable world map.
Well-organised and easy to use, this extensive database of world flags is an offering from Graham Bartram, whose illustrations of flags are of a quality generally unrivaled anywhere else.
Flag designers can upload images of their flag designs to the FlagWaver website to get a fair idea of something that can otherwise be quite difficult to visualise, namely how their designs will appear as actual flags when they are waving in various wind conditions.
Even a casual browsing of the two-dozen charts on the Flag Stories website will be deeply informative for any aspiring flag designer. Although the charts primarily deal with the various characteristics of national flags, they reveal numerous insights that are applicable to all flags.
Mostly just intended to be fun, this online flag design utility can nevertheless teach many valuable lessons about flag design, and like more advanced utilities it can open and save files in the SVG vector image format.
Provided by an actual flag manufacturer, this online flag design utility is a well-organised and sophisticated tool that can help any novice flag designer gain valuable insights into flag design and flag production.
Flags of the World Topical Index
Of the many search features and indices that are available on the vast FOTW website, this lesser-known index of about a dozen flag ‘topics’ can be an especially good tool for cutting through the clutter and for quickly locating useful information.
A comprehensive online source of information about world flags and about the graphical symbols that can be used in flag designs. User-friendly search features include an alphabetical index, a symbol categories index, and a unique ‘graphical index’, which allows a user to locate symbols based on five categories of their graphical characteristics, namely their symmetry, shape, colours, curveness, and crossing.
When using graphics software, flag designers will often need to translate Pantone ‘coated’ (C) colours into their ‘close-as-possible’, RGB hex notation equivalents. This website not only provides that service, but several other potentially valuable services as well, such as various ‘colour schemes’ that are based on Pantone coated colours or on their RGB hex notation equivalents.
Explore the rich symbolism of Oceania through the lens of its various heraldic traditions.
