Best size for micro-flag

[stormbind]

Hi all,

I have problems. The US flag doesn't like being scaled down - there is too much detail and it turns into a blurred blob.

Can anyone do a micro US flag? I was aiming for about 15px high.

Perhaps it would be better to make something that looks like the flag but isn't technically correct? Any suggestions?

 

[Gogf]

I'll try. If I can't get it, then perhaps using an incorrect number of stars/stripes would be the sollution.

EDIT: Here is a normal 15px (I'm working on an unaccurate one now):

 

[Gogf]

Okay, and here is the altered version:

 

[stormbind]

The first is a similar result to mine.

The best looking image I had was with the stripes showing white at the top, and blending to all-red at the bottom. Although it looked nice, it would be exceedingly hard to make all flags follow the same theme (uniform effect)

Maybe there's another way? Lots of sites have UK/US (ordering) or US flag for English-language... but when you need ideas, such sites go into hiding... it's sod's law

The second.. with 3 stars?

That's a different flag. I don't know if any nation uses stripes and 3 stars, but there are definately others like stripes + 1 star etc.

Sadly, I discarded most of my attempts so I cannot show what I tried, but here's one I found floating around in My Documents

I think it's actually 13px high.

 

[Gogf]

Well, at least sharpen the image..

I don't think anyone uses three stars, and IMO it looks better than just blue.

 

[stormbind]

That was sharpened

The colours are the similar at the bottom in an attempt to disguise the disproportional bars (some are thicker than others).

Here's another attempt at hiding the errors.

 

[stormbind]

Or going the other way. This one hasn't enough light though

 

[Gogf]

Well, it's impossible with something 15 pixels high to even have one dot-per-star because you can't have a dot smaller than a pixel.

 

[stormbind]

At a distance, the stars become a pattern (which looks mono-colour). That's why the ones I did don't have any stars.

Blue background: #081873
Average of white + blue: #2C3A87

This is with a pattern, but it's not accurate.

 

[Gogf]

Well, it just seems odd to not have stars.

 

[stormbind]

Edited

I still think it's far from optimal though

 

[Gogf]

Wow, that is very nice. Now just let me take at shot at editing it .

 

[Gogf]

Here is a slightly sharper version:

 

[Souron]

My attempt: 13x26