Small, free country flag icons / images for download
August 9th, 2010 | by Sean |
Flags from famfamfam.com
I hope this saves someone a little bit of work. I wanted to find some small country flag icons to use on a project that shows a flag next to where a particular data item (a datum on my lawn). I searched through a lot of sites offering downloadable sets of pictures of country flags. A lot of them were either no good for me due to licensing restrictions or being too ‘fat’ (file size too large) for what I want. A further problem with the small icons was that many artists seem to add flourishes such as shading to show ‘flutter’ and rounded. ‘raised’ edges. Some of these flourishes almost completely obscure the small image. I finally found a set that’s perfect for what I want on famfamfam.com – it’s apparently totally free, the images are tiny (the PNGs can be reduced by about half by indexing them in GIMP with an 8-colour palette, with some attendant loss of clarity), but a good compromise between size and clarity.
Download small free country flag icons with ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code names here