"wrong" hue of blue for France and the Netherlands

[paolocrosetto]

Hi there,

I used your wonderful package to produce a plot that went viral on Twitter.

Dutch people are complaining that the NL flag is actually the Luxembourg flag. See for instance here: https://twitter.com/reinier_boon/status/1601625443530334208?s=20&t=n53cl8O-LT0uz27vCy0iOw

I realized the same lighter-blue-where-darker-blue-should-have-been problem is there for France too.

And nothing, just raising this here as I have no way of fixing this downstream.

Thank you for your work!

[jimjam-slam]

Thanks very much for the report! We've had a few reports of wrong flag colours. They've been patched manually thus far, as the source emoji set (EmojiOne Color) stopped being updated a while ago. (That has other problems that stack up over time, as you can imagine, like flags or countries changing outright!)

I'm hoping to do a 1.0 release for ggflag where we switch the backend to a different set of SVG tools, as I've started having problems with the backend scripts where we update flags.

I think it probably makes sense to use that opportunity to update the source flag dataset! I'm eyeing up https://github.com/HatScripts/circle-flags as a potential candidate (See #17), as it's one of the few sets of circular flags.

Thank you for your patience on this!

[jimjam-slam]

(And congratulations on the popularity of the graphic! 🥳)