Talk:Flag of Milwaukee

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I am not certain this is the official flag of Milwaukee. It is a re-creation using digital fonts (such as Helvetica for the year) while the original flag appears to use hand lettering as would be common in the mid-1950s when it was created. It is possible that this is an officially adopted digital version of the flag, but I can’t find any evidence of that. Stewf (talk) 04:01, 5 September 2015 (UTC)

I asked the file creator, who apparently produced the image as a blending of the city's flag and another version from the now-defunct Milwaukee Tourism Portal. I've been unable to determine what individual or organization was responsible for the site, but it does look like it's a photograph of a physical flag.

It looks like the city is still using the first version, at least for indoor/ceremonial use (judging by the fringe and embroidery), while the second version from the Tourism Portal (and currently used on Wikipedia) is of unknown provenance. Presumably the blazon is established in some 1954 ordinance, but this is not publicly available on the internet, so until we can obtain a copy, it's difficult to know whether the second flag is a direct rendering of the blazon or a simplified adaptation of the first flag. There are a number of differences, but the ones that seem most significant to me are:

• The "mini-flag" is changed from a vertically hung, square banner to a rectangular flag, reducing the resemblance to a service flag.
• The Native American bust is simplified, reducing the resemblance to the Braves logo.
• The lamp of knowledge (city library logo?) is simplified, reducing the lamp to a triangle and removing the word "knowledge"
• The silhouette of City Hall is greatly simplified, notably removing the word "welcome" and the American flag at its apex. It also looks to me like the clock changes from about 3:25 to 7:20, but it's hard to tell.

The flag we're using here was originally an SVG recreation of the second flag, but Svgalbertian has recently made a few revisions to add details from the city's version. Ibadibam (talk) 21:52, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

And here's a recent newscast that shows the first version being flown publicly. Note also that the screen behind the Greater Together representative displays the second version, probably because that's the only one available in high quality on the web. It's interesting to consider that the flag being scrutinized in so many articles and broadcasts is not the one in official use and thus not the one that would be changed (not that the complaints about the one don't necessarily apply to the other). Ibadibam (talk) 22:02, 4 April 2016 (UTC)

Excellent points. And while the version in this article is getting closer all the time with every subsequent revision, we're not quite there yet. The numbers on the right are still a dead giveaway[1] SixFourThree (talk) 21:30, 13 June 2016 (UTC)SixFourThree

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