[lojban] Re: Lojban Flag

[Arnt Richard Johansen <arj@nvg.org>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Jorge Llambías wrote:

> --- pedagoguery <tupper@peda.com> wrote:
> > I've put up a few more quick designs in the "graphics" directory. I
> > think A and D are best. Design D is more explicit with the
> > Cartesian system, while A is less of an abrupt change from the
> > official design.
>
> I like design A. But I'm not sure blue on blue looks
> flaggy enough.

There actually are traditional rules for this kind of things. Colours are
classified in groups, called "hues" and "metals". Two different hues
should not be adjacent, neither two different metals. Traditionally, white
and yellow are metals, while all other colours are hues. Although this is
not strictly followed in all world flags, hues that would otherwise be
adjacent, are usually separated by a tiny band of white or yellow.

I didn't like most of the designs offered by Jeff, though. I though the
triple-ring Venn diagram was very striking, but I don't like square flags
in general, and the off-center coordinate axes ruined it a bit.

For those of you who are in the know: are there any official drawing of
the Lojban logo, or is it only the description ("rectilinear coordinate
system superimposed on a Venn diagram") that is official? In the latter
case, most of Jeff's drawing could be taken as valid Lojban logos.

> The official colors of Lojban should be {cicna} and {nukni}.
> It is so strange to have these two as basic color terms,
> that there must be a reason for them, they must be very
> important in Lojbanistan.

Having a light blue background on a Lojban flag seems to be very common,
but nowhere mentioned. I remember asking the very same question here many
years ago -- which colours the Lojban flag had/should have -- and Michael
Helsem answered, IIRC, "solji je rijno".

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Arnt Richard Johansen                                http://arj.nvg.org/
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