Jonathan A. Flags

Today's daily featured flag for 4 July, 2026 is the Cowpens flag, an alternative design for the original 13-star flag of the United States. I hope it's not surprising I chose an American flag of some sort for the fourth of July, which is when the United States of America celebrates its independence. This happens to be the 250th such anniversary, coincidentally enough! Anyhow, I decided that it would be far too formulaic to just pick the current United States flag. Also, I kind of hate the current flag because they just decided to keep adding stars despite the fact that basically anyone will tell you it looked better with 13 than it does with 50- that and 13 is objectively a cool number. However, I didn't want to just pick the Betsy Ross flag either- partially because of historical confusion surrounding is history, and partly because there's a better design- the Cowpens flag. Its first verifiable usage was during the War of 1812 between Proto-Canada and Baby U.S., but its mythological history stretches back to 1781. Regardless of whether you believe in the account of its usage during the American War of Independence, this flag is quite old by New World flag standards, and we also know that it was verifiably created by someone of the Batchelor family. I just think that the twelve stars in a circle surrounding one in the center works better as a design element, and it also reminds me of the Easton flag... maybe I'll talk about that one next year. Anyhow, here's the flag:

Today's featured flag for 3 July, 2026 is the flag of the city of Detroit, Michigan, United States. This is a special post, because not only is this our seventh post- representing a week- but this is also our first requested flag! This... interesting banner comes from the lovely @sarroth, who mentioned that he finds it endearing how the designers of this flag didn't seem to care that according to all known laws of vexillology, there is no way that this flag should be able to fly. And yet, this plucky little monstrosity flies anyway, because flags don't care what vexillologists believe is impossible. All jokes aside, while this flag is objectively horrible, I love it in a so-bad-it's-good way, kin to the U.S. state of Maryland's banner in my mind. Please thank @sarroth for this flag recommendation, and feast your eyes upon the beauty of the flag of Detroit!

Today's featured flag for 2 July, 2026 is the flag of the Republic of the Congo. Today happens to be the exact midpoint of 2026- it's already almost half over, shockingly enough! Anyhow, due to this fact, i've decided to highlight a country on the equator, the dividing line splitting our world in two- and the less arbitrary of it and the prime meridian. After thinking it over, I've decided that the most unique and non-ugly design of these countries is that of the Republic of the Congo. It'd be a cool coincidence if they did, but Congo-Brazzaville doesn't happen to have any anniversaries or holidays today. Still, I think it's a cool design that uses the extremely popular pan-African colors from the flag of Ethiopia in an innovative way with a fun pattern.

Moved and enlarged eagle Expanded stripes to whole height of flag

Simplified rug pattern

Moved crescent and stars to top right corner

Moved rug pattern to left

Changed aspect ratio to fit simplified rug pattern

Removed overcomplicated central elements

Today's featured flag for 1 July, 2026 is the flag of Canada. Usually there'd be a formal name there, but like several post-colonial states of the former British empire, Canada has nothing before its name- Canada is just Canada. Anyhow, today is July 1st, which is Canada Day, celebrating the creation of the Dominion of Canada from the confederation of three former British colonies: those being Canada, (yes, it was really called that- this is modern day Ontario and Quebec) Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick. Much like other independence and nation-building festivities worldwide, Canada Day is often celebrated with fireworks. If you happen to know any of the maple syrup people, wish them a happy day of celebrating their motherland- unless they're from Quebec, that is.

Today's featured flag for 30 June, 2026 is the flag of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, a Crown Dependency of the United Kingdom. This flag design takes the original St. George's cross design- that is, a design identical to that of England, although one does not strictly descend from the other- with a traditional golden Norman cross in the center. As it turns out, both Guernsey and its neighboring island of Jersey have their own languages and do not speak traditional French nor English. These languages are descended from Norman, the language of William the Conqueror and many of his first descendants, and the language which cause English to have so many of its most fancy words. This Norman cross makes a whole lot of sense with that added conquest, and also makes the flag a lot more unique than it would've been had it not been changed in 1985.

Removed text

Added blue border

Changed shape of flag- now an arrow symbolizing progress towards the future

Today's daily featured flag for 29 June, 2026 is the flag of the Republic of Seychelles. Not only is today their fiftieth anniversary of independence from the United Kingdom, but they also have a wonderful flag that demonstrates why rules- in this case, NAVA's #3- are meant to be broken. This color-dense banner reminiscent of a sun- or of a Romanian-Hungarian union- should serve as an inspiration to us all of how sometimes you can stick out like a sore thumb for all the right reasons.

Happy birthday, Seychelles! Here's to another 50 years of prosperity in the Indian Ocean. Finis Coronat Opus!

Delta Rune symbolizing the religion of the people of Hometown and the prophecy

Blue symbolizing the first hero, the cage with human SOUL and parts (Kris Dreemurr)

Pink symbolizing the second hero, the girl with hope crossed on her heart (Susie)

Inspired by @flag-of-the-day-but-weird's highlighting of the original and criticism of the lack of green on the flag

Added green to the sixth outer continents, leaving the seventh white to symbolize the white continent of antarctica

Blue remains, symbolizing the oceans and water of Earth

Green symbolizing the plant life that forms the bedrock of Earth's ecosystem and paints over 20% of Earth verdant

Loose concept of purple mountains from the original (2001-2017) flag of Pocatello

Pink sky symbolizing the sunrises atop the mountains

Green symbolizing the land and nature

Blue triangles symbolize lakes, directly mirroring the mountains above

Today's daily featured flag for 28 June, 2026 is the flag of the town of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. Zheleznogorsk's flag features a basic bright red field with an extremely non-basic design in its center: a bright yellow bear surrounded by three electron orbitals screaming as it splits open the nucleus of an atom. The town of Zheleznogorsk has no special anniversaries today, but it's been chosen purely due to how ridiculous it is that such a flag actually exists and how the flag oddly looks weirdly good for the strangeness of the concept. Zheleznogorsk was founded as a secret town by the Soviet government to hide the production of massive amounts of Plutonium, hence the nuclear vibe to the town's flag.

Learn more about the amazing history of the town this amazing flag belongs to here.

Red star and white field taken from original Flag of California

Brown symbolizing the ground of the more rural, natural parts of the state

White symbolizing the bright lights of California's cities and metropolises

Four-pointed red star symbolizing a bright future in the skies of hope

Beaver and blue color from the reverse side of the Flag of Oregon

Beaver simplified slightly

Red symbolizing the blood of the pioneers on the Oregon Trail, and the history of the capital, Salem, as the "cherry city."

Green symbolizing the nature, like trees and grass, of the state, as well as the green stripe on the flag of Cascadia