A community flag for everyday Pennsylvanians to fly with pride. #KeystoneFlag (This design is public domain!)
Pennsylvania, USA
Joined October 2019
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Shoutout to whoever made sure green was on the left so the colors would line up with the parts of the motto they represent, y'all did your research (@maerunes? @SamMorrisDesign? @jasenlo123? Come get your flowers 💚💛💙) keystoneflag.org/#symbolism
Contemporary? Not necessarily. The #KeystoneFlag draws symbolically from PA’s coat of arms (dating back over 200yrs), and tricolor flags are hardly a new invention. When it comes to flags, design is a good value to have!
We’ll say it again: #KeystoneFlag for the #KeystoneState
My daughter asked me to print out a picture of the Utah flag and some nice Utah pictures for a class project. When she saw the printout she said hey, that looks totally different than the flag in my book.
Turns out Utah just changed their flag and it took official effect only this March!
She took another look at it and said oh! A beehive, because it's the Beehive State! 🤩
Proper folding procedure won’t matter to everyday Pennsylvanians who are never inspired to fly the state flag in the first place. Maybe we should start with adopting a design people are already embracing across the Commonwealth: KeystoneFlag.org
Does “respecting the state flag” include knowing the difference between a “coat of arms” and a “crest”? Because @RepMunroe’s memorandum just suggested our state flag looks like this:
State Rep. Brian Munroe (D., Bucks) wants to provide for the Department of General Services to provide for an official process to fold the state flag. "Including these procedures in statute is a simple way to respect the state flag."
legis.state.pa.us/cfdocs/leg…
If it ain’t broken, why doesn’t anyone fly it?
We agree the state coat of arms is 🔥, but it’s meant to be seen in detail, not folded over itself on limp fabric. That’s why we took the best parts as inspiration to carry all its history and symbolism forward!
We decided it was time to break the cycle, and started offering a flag anyone can fly regardless if it ever sees official adoption (and plenty of folks across the Commonwealth now are!): KeystoneFlag.org
