RE: Tips on the US National Insignia
In this graphic we’ve added the two white bars.
In the example we see the original June 1943 bars have been added to the basic blue circle and star. It was hoped at the time that it would make the US insignia look less like the Japanese “Hinomaru” (red meat ball).
The bars are always the star’s radius in length, and a half radius in width. This is extremely important, and never changes. The bar dimensions do not include the boarder we’ll see later.
Learning Point 2: The bar’s inner edge should touch the star’s tips.
At this stage there is no boarder surrounding the bars yet. That was added later. Note the bars should touch the tips of the star. It may look in the graphic that there is a slight gap, but that is how the original drawing copied into the .jpg file. You can be sure the specification requires they touch. That is not to say that some full scale examples may not differ. In that case you should follow your documentation if you intend to compete.
Notice also that the bars stop at the star’s outer radius. This is very important to remember and does not change when we add the boarder later.