…which also lists this thread’s flag, that apparently is from 2016.
adzm 14 hours ago [-]
Transparency in a flag is new to me. It's surprisingly effective here. Could this be done with just cloth without synthetics by using thinner threads or thread count?
fiatpandas 12 hours ago [-]
I also love the transparency and am surprised it hasn’t been used more. Granted, it would be very difficult to achieve with natural materials and also be durable. A flag should be able to withstand an ocean voyage exposed to the elements.
rob74 8 hours ago [-]
I think you pointed out very well why it hasn't been used more: lack of durability. Either it has to be some kind of plastic foil, in which case it has to be thin enough to fly in the wind the same way as a traditional flag does, so it will degrade very quickly when exposed to the elements. Or the silk organza suggested on the page, but if it's thin enough to be (almost) transparent I'm not convinced that it would fare much better.
So, nice idea, but completely impractical, which makes it a gimmick.
lloeki 9 hours ago [-]
I feel what makes it work well here is also that it's not perfectly transparent so you can still see it wave in the wind and make out it's rectangular shape.
I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital
version.
anaumann 9 hours ago [-]
>> I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital version.
Finally, an application for Apple‘s Liquid Glass UI
lloeki 4 hours ago [-]
Well given there's no abuse of refractive light bending it looks more like whatever frosted glass existed before liquid glass.
Also this flag has square corners.
hsbauauvhabzb 8 hours ago [-]
Seems unfair to associate anything good with that abomination.
alm4x 14 hours ago [-]
The website mentions silk organza at https://1worldflag.com/flag/. That's where my mind went initially, some kind of sheer silk fabric. I don't know how durable it would be in the elements though.
nextaccountic 10 hours ago [-]
That would be the first flag that isn't vegan, which.. doesn't look very cool
benj111 9 hours ago [-]
I'm sure there have been plenty of flags that haven't been vegan.
aaron695 9 hours ago [-]
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invalidusernam3 9 hours ago [-]
It's a novel and fun idea! I also wonder how it would be represented correctly as a digital image, could be as an actual png or maybe the white/grey checker pattern from PhotoShop? Realistically probably just with a white background
bux93 9 hours ago [-]
Not great for t-shirts
kelseyfrog 14 hours ago [-]
The microplastics inherent in synthetics is the point.
BSDobelix 9 hours ago [-]
Good one ;) and a flag should never be wet, so cover it in Teflon.
hotep99 10 hours ago [-]
Will be useful for the inevitable war against the offworld colonies.
BSDobelix 10 hours ago [-]
I just hope that Mars is not adapting the Japanese flag...pretty bad for colorblind soldiers ;)
skullone 3 hours ago [-]
The Mars colonies would never choose independence!
ChiperSoft 40 minutes ago [-]
Nothing says "I care about the earth" like a giant sheet of plastic.
layer8 10 hours ago [-]
The Land of the Rising Sea.
et1337 13 hours ago [-]
Can’t wait for CGP Grey’s review of this flag
monkeywork 12 hours ago [-]
is he still making content it feels like its been forever since ive heard anything about him
aquariusDue 10 hours ago [-]
He's got a regular monthly podcast called Codex if you're into that format too.
RugnirViking 9 hours ago [-]
*cortex
latexr 10 hours ago [-]
Like so many other creators, seems like Grey’s main focus might now be on podcasts. Easier to produce and monetise.
boxed 11 hours ago [-]
That's what we always say between videos :P
karol 11 hours ago [-]
I would live to see the transparency around the funding and goals of this project.
nakedneuron 10 hours ago [-]
Lacking transparency is a red flag.
prox 10 hours ago [-]
Nothing a good conversation to PNG can’t fix
pelagicAustral 8 hours ago [-]
Thank you for flagging this issue.
rrgok 14 hours ago [-]
I don't like the color blue. Can we change it?
water-data-dude 14 hours ago [-]
Humanity's working on it, lol
vintagedave 8 hours ago [-]
I appreciate the ethos of unity, but in a sense it scares me were this ever to be political unity -- because I don't trust it would remain (or even ever be) democratic and free.
We see so many examples of power hurting citizens in existing nations. The risk if the entire world had one political unity, of losing freedom, is extreme.
With multiple nations and blocs, at least some remain showing an example of what can exist in the others.
pelagicAustral 8 hours ago [-]
The only way we'll going to achieve anything remotely akin to World Unity™ is as some form of dystopic Warhammer 40K future. You try putting even 5 people in a root have them reach consensus on anything.
trashb 9 hours ago [-]
I like the idea to have a symbol to unite the world under one flag.
The blue dot seems to make sense as it represents the world without focusing on one perspective or projection of the world map. The transparent background also makes sense for the flag, but I think it would be more recognizable if it was just a white background (in my mind the default flag background).
Also it seems to me transparent materials are in general more polluting. On the website it mentions a black background was considered (I suppose representing space). It would be nice if there was an alternative version chosen without the transparency for mediums where transparency is not an option either black or white would suffice imho.
As others mentioned it does seem very similar (same proportions) as the Japanese flag. I wonder what the opinion of the Japanese is on this concept.
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Theodores 9 hours ago [-]
Note that blue was an expensive colour until recent times. Painters would use it sparingly.
Nowadays blue is easy and common in flags, and much else, so this flag design is high tech.
stevenalowe 1 hours ago [-]
How about a pale blue dot on a black background
spondyl 8 hours ago [-]
I can't help but be distracted by the 26MB flag video that my fibre connection is only able to download at 150 KB/sec here in New Zealand?
lanyard-textile 14 hours ago [-]
Love the idea.
But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an undesirable quality in flags.
rolymath 13 hours ago [-]
Judging by the comments here, the 1worldflag should have been a picture of two people arguing.
grebc 13 hours ago [-]
Yes! Classic.
We don’t have an outside enemy atm so we squabble amongst ourselves, it’s a pattern as old as humans have gathered into groups.
He asked about the Esperanto of flags, not about the flags of Esperanto.
jszymborski 3 hours ago [-]
Wouldn't the Esperanto of Flags be the flag of Esperanto?
layer8 2 hours ago [-]
The Esperanto of sign languages wouldn’t inherently be the sign language of Esperanto. The same goes for flags.
TwoFerMaggie 9 hours ago [-]
I suppose a lot of flags are esperanto of flags...
hackernulls 13 hours ago [-]
Yep, that no one uses too.
simondotau 11 hours ago [-]
Like all flags, this will come to represent those who choose to fly it, and the causes they fly it for. Which then makes them symbols of the ideas opposed by people who think flag waving is cringe.
hermitcrab 8 hours ago [-]
Someone made a flag to express unity and we've just all come here to argue about it. How very human.
This will be needed for the galactic civil wars that will soon take place.
mattvr 8 hours ago [-]
Is there information on the license of this flag? Not how/if clear you can reproduce it legally.
pixlmint 11 hours ago [-]
Holy typo… does the one world not have proofreaders?
amarant 8 hours ago [-]
Nope! They were sent off along with other useful professionals such as telephone cleaners on a big space ship!
xgkickt 14 hours ago [-]
Blue needs to be paler, and the dot smaller ;-)
dylan604 13 hours ago [-]
I was disappointed it wasn't a pale blue dot as well.
ant6n 11 hours ago [-]
Yeah, it’s more like a saturated blue giant circle.
seirim 12 hours ago [-]
Try to add a favicon for the website if you can guys, a blue dot would work well here.
amai 7 hours ago [-]
Will we put this flag on the moon?
ARandomerDude 12 hours ago [-]
What if we took Japan’s flag, imagined it printed on paper, but made the dot blue?
patates 11 hours ago [-]
I like the direction of unity but this will probably be problematic when we eventually start to colonize other planets. I don't want our first settlers to feel discriminated, so please kindly make a new version with more universality - now that I think about it, Universal Pictures also has the world in their logo so maybe this IS universal but we probably we need Jim and Hannah in the loop as well so they can chime in, and last but not least, we need a review from the legal so I CC'd to all, expect some new ideas/requirements.
Also, can we please make it "pop"?
ps. Attaching a version I made, and this took a lot of back and forth with chatgpt because I care about this a lot, so please have a look, I think we are close to something great here!
Looking forward to seeing more from you!
ps2. when I was about to send our manufacturing guy entered the room and he said the transparency could be a problem. Some alternatives without compromising the idea would be great! They must be cheap but elegant! Thank you!!
reconnecting 11 hours ago [-]
> we eventually start to colonize other planets.
Could you please clarify which ones? I'm planning my escape, but it seems that even lightspeed wouldn't be enough to colonize anything suitable.
boxed 11 hours ago [-]
Eh? If you go at light speed you can literally go everywhere in the universe subjectively instantly due to time dilation.
reconnecting 11 hours ago [-]
> If you go at light speed
I will certainly not. And even if I did — within any reachable radius there's nothing actually suitable, everything is 10+ ly away, but maybe I missed something.
Not at all - it's clearly intended as a threat. /s
s20n 14 hours ago [-]
but that's the wrong shade of blue? It'd have been great if they took the colour from "The blue marble" instead of this Turbo Pascal blue.
moss_dog 13 hours ago [-]
What do you mean by "wrong"?
I reckon the actual color doesn't matter as long as it's blue-ish. There are no branding guidelines or anything. Even the size of the circle is unspecified, which IMO is a feature, not a bug. It's accessible :)
EDIT: I'm incorrect, there is a spec. Whelp! I still like my imagined more-flexible version of the flag.
dheera 12 hours ago [-]
It is the 16-color VGA version of blue, not the version of blue you'd pick if you had a 24-bit color display.
This website reminds me of the early 90s internet because of the specific shade of blue they picked.
dylan604 13 hours ago [-]
Maybe they couldn't find American Flag Blue??? Or is that reserved for swimming pools now?
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simondotau 11 hours ago [-]
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mock-possum 10 hours ago [-]
Looks too much like japan’s flag.
Let’s try an earth and a sunrise behind it - half a circle sitting on the bottom of the rectangle, and a yellow circle making a sunrise on top of that, like a yolk sitting on a blue egg.
suddenlybananas 11 hours ago [-]
Looks like something out of 1997.
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visha1v 11 hours ago [-]
the most european thing i’ve seen today
vhcmlctibbkgx 14 hours ago [-]
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NordStreamYacht 13 hours ago [-]
Esperanto flag.
glerk 11 hours ago [-]
I like this. And furthermore, it is my opinion that all current nation states should be dismantled.
halapro 10 hours ago [-]
I wish so too, but clearly this is not in any way practical. The EU is the closest thing we got to "fewer borders"
glerk 9 hours ago [-]
We can always dream and then find ways to make it practical :)
It's encouraging I didn't get downvoted as much as I expected I would.
Auracle 10 hours ago [-]
It’s a nice goal, but no thank you. In my opinion, more of the world needs to be all but quarantined.
SuddsMcDuff 9 hours ago [-]
I expect there are many people who agree with this sentiment, unfortunately they might not agree on precisely which areas ought to be quarantined. And those who happen to live in the areas you want to quarantine might disagree most vigorously.
yanhangyhy 9 hours ago [-]
if cannot merge into 1, at least we can make it a few. 200+ is a waste of resources on so many levels.. so many countries really don't need to exist and have shitty a government...
BSDobelix 10 hours ago [-]
>all current nation states should be dismantled.
Fun fact. Just people who live in a shitty country want that, maybe instead of change everyone else, change you own country?
glerk 10 hours ago [-]
I've lived in several different countries. There are nice people everywhere. The country governments are shitty everywhere.
BSDobelix 10 hours ago [-]
Funny i live in a country where the people are the government, and with your knowledge of different country's, the future World-Government would not just be shitty but untouchable mighty. I want really small, face to face responsible governments.
glerk 9 hours ago [-]
> the people are the government
A lot of countries claim that. I think that can only work at a small scale.
> I want really small, face to face responsible governments
We are not that different :)
yuppiepuppie 10 hours ago [-]
> The country governments are shitty everywhere.
Compared to what?
glerk 6 hours ago [-]
Honestly, compared to any random sample of non-retarded and non-malicious people you can find.
0xDEAFBEAD 10 hours ago [-]
Why would a world government be any better?
dostick 10 hours ago [-]
I am from so called 1st world, how do you define “shitty country”, are there better ones?
To be honest, those two are so far apart it's not even comparable.
9dev 10 hours ago [-]
German here, I want the same. We are one species inhabiting a single habitable world in a giant dead void. Nationalism is an idiotic game of no value that causes destruction of resources we need, senseless killing in wars over nothing, and ultimately merely a distraction from everything that’s really important.
BSDobelix 10 hours ago [-]
Nothing against a Coordinating body like the UN, and really small states (lets call them community's).
But there is no "we are the world, we are the children", future is probably more like US/EU/EAU (east asia union), now you have 3 big blocks fighting against each other (much higher world-ending chance). More power = more bully....
>everything that’s really important.
Yes your right, and talking...even with a enemy should be considered the base for future world-freedom.
9dev 10 hours ago [-]
No, I'm absolutely aware that we are - as of now - unable to get past the pettiness of nationality and tribalism. Maybe it's so ingrained in us, we'll never get past that, I don't know.
It's just massively frustrating to see what humanity could accomplish if we weren't occupied bashing our heads in over religion, nationality, or color of skin. The planet - the only planet - is dying, people and animals are suffering, and the news are dominated by a particular clown and his circus. It's really unbearable sometimes.
SuddsMcDuff 9 hours ago [-]
> It's just massively frustrating to see what humanity could accomplish if we weren't occupied bashing our heads in over religion, nationality, or color of skin.
Resenting the real world because it doesn't live up to your make-believe fantasy world is pathological. I too can imagine perfect utopian worlds where everybody lives in peace and harmony, but they're just fantasies. Eventually you have to come back to the real world and learn to accept the harsh truths of the reality you find yourself inhabiting.
BSDobelix 8 hours ago [-]
>Resenting the real world because it doesn't live up to your make-believe fantasy world is pathological.
I dont think world-peace (more or less) is impossible, even if it's more like "Brave New World" instead of "1984".
Or maybe something like the UN with a strong peace-force and WITHOUT a security council but a real and fair democratic decision process.
And maybe the most important point, i have not seen real War-Winners (except the mil.-industrial-blabla) since the 2. World-war....just losers on both sides.
9dev 9 hours ago [-]
That's not what I have said. Imagine you have a mentally challenged brother you love dearly, who continues to run head-first against a wall. That's what it feels like. Doesn't mean I'm not aware and accepting of the reality we all live in.
Edit: And honestly, I find it a bit pathological to take the sentence you quoted upfront and not feeling similar resentment against those things. Granted, Humans are a belligerent species, but just shrugging these things away is really not an acceptable stance either.
glerk 9 hours ago [-]
> Eventually you have to come back to the real world and learn to accept the harsh truths of the reality you find yourself inhabiting.
I don't know why I feel so much contempt for people like you. I kinda get it, you want to feel intellectually superior. You're the reasonable one, the adult in the room, etc. but seriously bro, this reality is so fucking harsh. What keeps you going? Why are you still here and going through with it?
BSDobelix 10 hours ago [-]
>The planet - the only planet - is dying, people and animals are suffering, and the news are dominated by a particular clown and his circus. It's really unbearable sometimes.
Oh man you speak from my heart, it's like we live on a star-ship, but everyone looks just at their own room instead of steering the ship into a better future.
EDIT: However, as we see a shift from the UN (as a future captain?) to NATO (at least in the so called "West"), i see dark times ahead of us.
rlpb 10 hours ago [-]
The paradox of tolerance applies though. It helps to keep the intolerants at bay.
emaro 10 hours ago [-]
No borders doesn't mean no rules.
legostormtroopr 11 hours ago [-]
And replaced with what?
BSDobelix 10 hours ago [-]
Have you read the utopian book "Starship Troopers" from Heinlein ;)
elictronic 9 hours ago [-]
It had a real Mary Poppins feel when interacting with the skinnies.
glerk 10 hours ago [-]
That can be figured out after the dismantling process :)
My personal utopian take: smaller communities/city-states that would naturally coalesce into more fluid confederations. A lot of these communities could also be distributed and non-local.
Towaway69 10 hours ago [-]
Money.
altmanaltman 11 hours ago [-]
good opinion and one that most agree with
what most don't agree with: what happens next?
yanhangyhy 9 hours ago [-]
civil war?
pixel_popping 10 hours ago [-]
It should be a different color, because this will be attached to either politics (which you don't want) or EU (which you also don't want), some completely independent color could actually trigger curiosity to look it up.
scratcheee 9 hours ago [-]
Disagree, though you’re right it’s a little bit similar to the eu flag, but only a little, plenty of countries manage with more similar flags.
Flags don’t exist for the period where they’re gaining recognition. Compromising the significance of the iconography for the temporary gain of not being misidentified during the period it isn’t recognisable would just mean if it gains recognition it will forever be less than it could be.
In other words, with flags you need to play to win, not to survive. Better that the attempt have a higher risk of failure with a great flag than a lower risk with a mediocre flag.
The pale blue dot is an excellent way to represent a global outlook and “we’re all in it together”, not sure I can think of a better pedigree for this concept. I’d perhaps have been tempted to make it a smaller blue dot, but flags do need to be recognised at a distance, so it can’t be too much smaller.
its-summertime 9 hours ago [-]
I believe its a reference to the planet being a pale blue dot.
So, nice idea, but completely impractical, which makes it a gimmick.
I'd definitely take that into consideration for a digital version.
Finally, an application for Apple‘s Liquid Glass UI
Also this flag has square corners.
We see so many examples of power hurting citizens in existing nations. The risk if the entire world had one political unity, of losing freedom, is extreme.
With multiple nations and blocs, at least some remain showing an example of what can exist in the others.
The blue dot seems to make sense as it represents the world without focusing on one perspective or projection of the world map. The transparent background also makes sense for the flag, but I think it would be more recognizable if it was just a white background (in my mind the default flag background).
Also it seems to me transparent materials are in general more polluting. On the website it mentions a black background was considered (I suppose representing space). It would be nice if there was an alternative version chosen without the transparency for mediums where transparency is not an option either black or white would suffice imho.
As others mentioned it does seem very similar (same proportions) as the Japanese flag. I wonder what the opinion of the Japanese is on this concept.
Nowadays blue is easy and common in flags, and much else, so this flag design is high tech.
But the transparency :( It makes the whole flag low contrast, an undesirable quality in flags.
We don’t have an outside enemy atm so we squabble amongst ourselves, it’s a pattern as old as humans have gathered into groups.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto_symbols#/media/File%...
However that one looks better: https://www.flagofplanetearth.com/
Fight me :)
Also, can we please make it "pop"?
ps. Attaching a version I made, and this took a lot of back and forth with chatgpt because I care about this a lot, so please have a look, I think we are close to something great here!
Looking forward to seeing more from you!
ps2. when I was about to send our manufacturing guy entered the room and he said the transparency could be a problem. Some alternatives without compromising the idea would be great! They must be cheap but elegant! Thank you!!
Could you please clarify which ones? I'm planning my escape, but it seems that even lightspeed wouldn't be enough to colonize anything suitable.
I will certainly not. And even if I did — within any reachable radius there's nothing actually suitable, everything is 10+ ly away, but maybe I missed something.
https://theinfosphere.org/images/1/17/Earth_Flag.svg
I reckon the actual color doesn't matter as long as it's blue-ish. There are no branding guidelines or anything. Even the size of the circle is unspecified, which IMO is a feature, not a bug. It's accessible :)
EDIT: I'm incorrect, there is a spec. Whelp! I still like my imagined more-flexible version of the flag.
This website reminds me of the early 90s internet because of the specific shade of blue they picked.
Let’s try an earth and a sunrise behind it - half a circle sitting on the bottom of the rectangle, and a yellow circle making a sunrise on top of that, like a yolk sitting on a blue egg.
It's encouraging I didn't get downvoted as much as I expected I would.
Fun fact. Just people who live in a shitty country want that, maybe instead of change everyone else, change you own country?
A lot of countries claim that. I think that can only work at a small scale.
> I want really small, face to face responsible governments
We are not that different :)
Compared to what?
Are the vast majority happy? = Good one
If not = Shitty
Example? Norway[1] = good, Sudan[2] = really..really shitty
[1] https://www.bi.no/en/research/business-review/articles/2025/...
[2] https://interactive.aljazeera.com/aje/2025/sudan-voices/
To be honest, those two are so far apart it's not even comparable.
But there is no "we are the world, we are the children", future is probably more like US/EU/EAU (east asia union), now you have 3 big blocks fighting against each other (much higher world-ending chance). More power = more bully....
>everything that’s really important.
Yes your right, and talking...even with a enemy should be considered the base for future world-freedom.
It's just massively frustrating to see what humanity could accomplish if we weren't occupied bashing our heads in over religion, nationality, or color of skin. The planet - the only planet - is dying, people and animals are suffering, and the news are dominated by a particular clown and his circus. It's really unbearable sometimes.
Resenting the real world because it doesn't live up to your make-believe fantasy world is pathological. I too can imagine perfect utopian worlds where everybody lives in peace and harmony, but they're just fantasies. Eventually you have to come back to the real world and learn to accept the harsh truths of the reality you find yourself inhabiting.
I dont think world-peace (more or less) is impossible, even if it's more like "Brave New World" instead of "1984".
Or maybe something like the UN with a strong peace-force and WITHOUT a security council but a real and fair democratic decision process.
And maybe the most important point, i have not seen real War-Winners (except the mil.-industrial-blabla) since the 2. World-war....just losers on both sides.
Edit: And honestly, I find it a bit pathological to take the sentence you quoted upfront and not feeling similar resentment against those things. Granted, Humans are a belligerent species, but just shrugging these things away is really not an acceptable stance either.
I don't know why I feel so much contempt for people like you. I kinda get it, you want to feel intellectually superior. You're the reasonable one, the adult in the room, etc. but seriously bro, this reality is so fucking harsh. What keeps you going? Why are you still here and going through with it?
Oh man you speak from my heart, it's like we live on a star-ship, but everyone looks just at their own room instead of steering the ship into a better future.
EDIT: However, as we see a shift from the UN (as a future captain?) to NATO (at least in the so called "West"), i see dark times ahead of us.
My personal utopian take: smaller communities/city-states that would naturally coalesce into more fluid confederations. A lot of these communities could also be distributed and non-local.
what most don't agree with: what happens next?
Flags don’t exist for the period where they’re gaining recognition. Compromising the significance of the iconography for the temporary gain of not being misidentified during the period it isn’t recognisable would just mean if it gains recognition it will forever be less than it could be.
In other words, with flags you need to play to win, not to survive. Better that the attempt have a higher risk of failure with a great flag than a lower risk with a mediocre flag.
The pale blue dot is an excellent way to represent a global outlook and “we’re all in it together”, not sure I can think of a better pedigree for this concept. I’d perhaps have been tempted to make it a smaller blue dot, but flags do need to be recognised at a distance, so it can’t be too much smaller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot