• 0 Posts
  • 303 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: November 12th, 2023

help-circle
  • pyre@lemmy.worldtoUnited Kingdom@feddit.ukThe correct way
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    11
    ·
    edit-2
    14 days ago

    (I’m going to call them Xs because referring to them as saint’s crosses or whatever can be confusing)

    because if it were symmetrical, the white X would look like it’s merely a border to the red, which is not supposed to be the case because it’s a separate symbol.

    there’s also optical alignment at play. i didn’t find much about this online but as a designer I’ve learned that diagonal lines, if broken by another object, can look weirdly crooked if perfectly aligned, so if you actually slightly misalign them you can make them look more straight. the red X here is broken, but it still looks centered rather than to the side of the white X.







  • well at this point it doesn’t work because all it does is prop up Australians as badass people who deal with giant spiders and snakes like they’re mosquitoes while we scream when we see a cockroach. and since we’re not looking to tame Australia as new settlers anymore i don’t think there’s any harm to it today.