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Originally Posted by CroFlames
I don't get why people hate the flags so much. I think it's a great touch.
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The Alberta flag patch breaks one of the fundamental rules of design: You never put two bright solid colours next to each other; you put in a relatively neutral colour to modulate between them. (Yellow counts as neutral for this purpose.) This rule has been well understood since the Middle Ages, when it was one of the laws of heraldry. To this day, if you look at national flags, very few of them have colour next to colour. Most of those that do are among the ugliest flags around.
On sports uniforms, if you put red and blue on the same design, it's customary to separate them with a white stripe (yellow is acceptable but rare). The bright blue of the Alberta flag against a field of red is, to put it bluntly, an eyesore. Believe it or not, that combination is physiologically fatiguing to the eye. (I won't go into the reasons in this post; I don't want to write an encyclopaedia.)
So if the Flames want to have the Alberta flag patch on their red uniforms, they really ought to put a bit of white piping around the flag to separate the blue from the red. What I think would work much better is to get rid of the blue field altogether, and just use the shield from the centre of the flag, with a thin white border around it. You could make the shield larger than the one on the flag patch, so that the overall area of the patch would remain about the same.
What we have now:
What I suggest:
Easier on the eyes, easier to make out the elements of the shield, and in my opinion, much better looking altogether.