The 1:1 variants seem to indicate that this collection is intended more for the benefit of UI designers etc. who want all flags to have consistent shape for the

The 1:1 variants seem to indicate that this collection is intended more for the benefit of UI designers etc. who want all flags to have consistent shape for their designs rather than as a reference for the definitive versions of flags. Unfortunately they chose 3:4 for the rectangular variants, which isn't really used that much, 2:3 and 1:2 are more common for flags[1], so lots more flags have their designs rearranged, squished and stretched to fit the box than would otherwise need to be. For example flags with the UK's Union Jack in the canton seem to be noticeably mangled as the Union Jack seems far too large relatively. It's always going to be a compromise to have one shape, but just using 2:3 (the most common shape) would mean far fewer would need adjustments. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_national_flags https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aspect_ratios_of_natio...