blade-flags gives you SVG rectangles. This gives you flags users actually recognize.

There's already a popular Laravel flag package. outhebox/blade-flags has 663k installs, and it works fine. So why did I build another one? Because SVG rectangular flags and emoji flags solve different problems — and most Laravel apps actually need the emoji version. The difference nobody talks about When your user sees this in your app: <x-flag-icon type="country" code="bd" width="24px" /> They see: 🇧🇩 That's the flag they see in WhatsApp. In Twitter. In their phone keyboard. In every modern app, they use it daily. Their brain recognizes it in zero milliseconds. blade-flags renders a tiny rectangular SVG of the Bangladeshi flag — accurate, technically correct, and completely unfamiliar to most users. It looks like something from a government website. Emoji flags match the visual language of the modern web. SVG flags don't. When does this actually matter? If you're building a developer tool or admin dashboard — use blade-flags . SVG flags look sharp and professional at small sizes in de