Talk:Flag of Taunton, Massachusetts

Flag has anachronistic typeface
The flag portrayed in the article is Verdana which wasn't released until 1996. The caption says that the design is based on a contemporary description of the flag but the citation offers no description and isn't a scholarly article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teacurran (talk • contribs) 19:24, 2 April 2018 (UTC)


 * No, it's pretty clearly not Verdana. Verdana has a distinct serif at top and bottom of the "I" and a straight foot on the "R", and this does not. (I'm not 100% sure what it is, although the "R" looks like Arial Bold). True, the original 1774 flag probably had some kind of serif text rendered by hand, not sans-serif; sans-serif wasn't commonly used until the late 1800s (so Wikipedia tells me). But as the article notes, nobody knows what the original flag looked like, and Taunton adopted a new version of the flag in 1974. That new one is the official "Taunton Flag" today, and arguably the only version of the flag we can illustrate. FWIW, I bought a desk-sized replica Taunton Flag at the Old Colony Historical Society, it clearly uses Helvetica Bold, which dates from the 1950s. - Kzirkel (talk) 16:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC)