>>390829>>390830I want to design a few of my ideas, but right now I'm stuck in a dumb project that's got literally nothing to do with me except for some polymer stuff. Plus I'm drowning in some end-of-term exams. Once I'm free from all those shits and my cursed laptop finally decides to work, I'll use Illustrator and make a few designs.
About the font, well yeah, I guess your goal was something else from the start. In that case, sure, it can be a decent font for persian without connected letters. But still, it's not a real replacement. At best, it's a symbolic font, something you may use on a logo.
Now look, we're talking about the irgc, not the army! The whole point of the irgc back then was to pretend it's kinda "holier!" than other forces, so of course they tried to avoid stars, circles, or anything standard. That’s how we got these weird junks. Honestly, if they really wanted a fresh design, they could have used someone legit like Hamid Nadimi (for real, that "Allah" symbol on the flag is pretty smart), or held a design contest(like with the Nature bridge(Pole-Tabiat), which turned out pretty well.)
Even with this circle/star badge they got, they could have made it work if they added some detail to it, especially for ranks like major. But whatever, it's not that big of a deal. We're talking about high ranks. It's not like a bunch of generals are going to mistake each other from across a damn valley. Most of the time, they're face to face anyway. Still, yeah, irgc design choices are trash sometimes.
About your second pic, again, same irgc lack of taste. But I think the reason they curved the badge is because these are lower ranks, and in close-quarter combat, where ID mistakes are more likely, a curved shape stands out more than a straight line. That's the only logic I can come up with. Otherwise, it's just more brainrot.
Anyway, don't stress too much over the irgc stuff, they're not the "main" army.
Even in the U.S military, check out E-8 and E-9. These ranks, despite not being relatively high, still get confused sometimes. Or take Nazi admin armbands, same problem. But again, those guys usually operated at close range, so it didn't matter. Same goes for the last two rows in your first image, yeah, they could get mixed up, but since these are high ranks, they usually deal with each other up close, so it's still recognizable. This issue exists everywhere. My real gripe is the irgc's total lack of taste, not that the badges themselves cause real confusion.
And on top of that, the Iranian and U.S military rank visuals are so damn similar, that if the two ever went to war, you would probably have to ID people by their style, not their ranks!