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Yet another redesign of the Portuguese Flag. This goes a bit more back to its roots. The original blue cross on a white field as in the first portuguese flag, with a white cross at the center representing only one of the five wounds of Christ (this decision was mostly out of simplicity since have 5 crosses made the flag a bit too busy). The traditional red frame was flipped inside out, irradiating out, now following the cross outwards, and giving a nod to the Order of Christ symbol, one of the key symbols in the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries.

While abandoning much of the existing Portuguese flag symbolism (7 castles, Armillary Sphere, Positivism and Revolutionary symbolism in the green and red background colors), I'm happy with this design since it manages to follow all good vexillology practices (stands out, easy to remember, easily drawable by a 5 year old, meaningful symbolism). My only concern would be excessive religious symbolism in the flag, but that's just part of the overall history of Portugal.

It's also my personal belief that white, blue, and red (and yellow) are colors much more representative of Portugal than just blue and white or green and red. But that's just an opinion

Description
Yet another redesign of the Portuguese Flag. This goes a bit more back to its roots. The original blue cross on a white field as in the first portuguese flag, with a white cross at the center representing only one of the five wounds of Christ (this decision was mostly out of simplicity since have 5 crosses made the flag a bit too busy). The traditional red frame was flipped inside out, irradiating out, now following the cross outwards, and giving a nod to the Order of Christ symbol, one of the key symbols in the Portuguese Maritime Discoveries.

While abandoning much of the existing Portuguese flag symbolism (7 castles, Armillary Sphere, Positivism and Revolutionary symbolism in the green and red background colors), I'm happy with this design since it manages to follow all good vexillology practices (stands out, easy to remember, easily drawable by a 5 year old, meaningful symbolism). My only concern would be excessive religious symbolism in the flag, but that's just part of the overall history of Portugal.

It's also my personal belief that white, blue, and red (and yellow) are colors much more representative of Portugal than just blue and white or green and red. But that's just an opinion