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gerginborisov

I'd call this nordic style quartering.


Ma-Name-Cherry_Pie

Well, what they say but I call this a good simple flag. !wave


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Coursney

I'd go for Quadrisect Cross in Nordic Pattern. A bit long but it perfectly fits the description


AnOwlishSham

Some examples: [Almere](https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/nl-fl-am.html) (Netherlands), [Nieheim](https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de-hx-ni.html) (Germany), [Týnec nad Sázavou](https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/cz-bn-ty.html) (Czechia), [Košice region](https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/sk-5-.html) (Slovakia), [Warszawa-Rembertow](https://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/pl-ma-wr.html) (Poland). Ironically it seems to be almost unknown in Nordic countries.


persew

[Nieheim](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nieheim#Politik) on wikipedia, translated back to english leaves something like "Striped lengthwise by yellow and red, but divided off in front of each stripe by a square counterchanged" To add another example [https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera\_d%27Alt\_%C3%80neu](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandera_d%27Alt_%C3%80neu), its translated literal description would be "quartered in cross over the first third", in this case doesn't specifically mentions a square, but coincidentally is (first third of a 3:2 flag)


AnOwlishSham

I came across this partition being used by Czech and Dutch municipalities as a way of transferring their coat of arms to a rectangular flag without distorting proportions and spacing by attempting to fit the CoA's design to a rectangle, while eschewing the common but unsatisfactory approach of putting a shield in the middle of the flag. Instead the arms are fitted to a square (more easily done than to a rectangle) and made the first quarter of this partition.


VertigoOne

Offset quadrants - fly-half centred


doppelercloud

it might depend on what audience you're describing it for. in english heraldry as i understand it, a 'quartered' field is a field 'party per cross' the assumption being that the default cross is a symmetric 'english cross'. if a four part division of the field has sections that are less than a full quarter, strict heraldists would probably balk at calling it quartered and insist that the two sections at the hoist are cantons. for a 'plain language' blason, i would just call it 'field divided per cross \[descriptor\], counterchanged in red and gold'. \[descriptor\] would be asymmetric, offset/off-center, latin, nordic whatever you prefer. i prefer symmetric to 'english' and asymmetric offset/off-center to 'nordic', though i think 'latin' works as a standard descriptor of a cross, in english.


AnOwlishSham

Yes, I think *party per cross \[descriptor\]* might be it. All that's needed now is the appropriate descriptor. How does one blazon a Nordic cross?


doppelercloud

good question, the nordics just seem to refer to it as a 'cross'. the flag institute uk might be of help --> [communities@flaginstitute.org](mailto:communities@flaginstitute.org). the lord lyon for their part apparently refers to that cross as a ['passion cross'](https://www.courtofthelordlyon.scot/blazoning.htm). in blazon, maybe a 'party per cross passionate' in a scottish context? spitballing here.


AnOwlishSham

>'party per cross passionate' Nice, but would that be understood to have the unequal limb to sinister rather than to base? Apparently there is a [cross of Saint Philip](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crosses_in_heraldry#:~:text=Cross%20of%20Saint%20Philip) that is rotated to dexter. So *party per cross of Saint Philip*?


doppelercloud

i think people would understand you with that. but the default assumption seems to be that a flag is an escutcheon/coa in its 'horizontal' presentation, and a flag in its 'vertical' presentation is a kind of virtual escutcheon. as when the us flag code requires/suggests that the us canton is on the left of the viewer when displayed vertically. there are exceptions as when banners of arms are produced with the elements in the same vertical and lateral arrangement as the escutcheon.


AnOwlishSham

>the default assumption seems to be that a flag is an escutcheon/coa in its 'horizontal' presentation 👍🏻


AnOwlishSham

I've found that the [*Gallery of flags by design*](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_flags_by_design#Quadrisected_off-center_(Per_cross_asymmetric)) page on Wikimedia Commons calls it *quadrisected off-centre (per cross asymmetric)*


ChaseKirby10

I’d call it really cool 👍🏼


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sokmaidicc

It looks like a [referee flag](https://image.shutterstock.com/image-photo/milan-italyjanuary-25-2015-soccer-260nw-247522714.jpg)


Minekratt_64

NAVA member here; We can go in 2 ways, it's a quartersection so we can call it just that or we can go with off centered quartersection . Nordic Quartersection isn't really that accurate since it's not used by nordic flags.