Barcelona-based Toormix has developed a new proposal for a symbol and flag system to “celebrate the diversity and unity of all sexual and gender identities within the LGBTIQA+ community, promoting an inclusive, diverse, and fluid vision of the movement for rights and equality”. It’s an ambitious and very thoughtfully considered (and very nicely presented) system — could this have universal adoption?
Hmm, it lacks distinctiveness - it kind of just looks like a color picker from a graphics app. That gradient might be easy to do with a computer but it would be hard to reproduce by hand (drawing/sewing/etc). It also just seems a bit lazy, in an everything-and-the-kitchen-sink kind of way.
Edit: the licensing is also a problem. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 means that they want to be credited every time this symbol is used (attribution) and that they don’t allow distribution of modified versions (no derivatives).
I seriously doubt the community will be interested in using a symbol that requires printing a license and attribution statement next to it every time. Also, prohibiting the distribution of derivatives really demonstrates an ignorance of how communities adopt and use symbols like this.
First, I never understood people who think each discrete colour on the flag is supposed to represent one specific thing. It’s madness. It’s a symbol, it represents a spectrum. It represents a rainbow, all visible light thus all possible identities. It’s already complete, there’s no point adding a zigzag stripe with polka dot to represent a specific identity.
The original author didn’t even mean to represent a specific identity per stripe, he originally gave them the meaning of Sex, Life, Healing, Sunlight, Nature, Magic, Serenity, Spirit. A 70’s hippy he was.
Second, the pride flag is known worldwide, instantly recognizable even in the deepest redneck corner of Saudi Arabia. Changing it for a colour picker is like saying apple logo should be a banana.
idk what you guys are on about, i like the new photoshop color picker
I wish I could somehow muster the energy to be constructive in any way but this is genuinely the ugliest trash I’ve ever seen and I will immediately stop being gay if I see this flag anywhere in public.
Additionally, the company appears to have self plagiarized the shape of the design from their “open/close systems” project, which is available for viewing on their also ugly website
I’m not disliking this flag, this is a cool project. however the pride flag is enough for me to represent all human diversities, sexuality and ideas. The rainbow flag is also joyful, open. This symbol is very stong.
So i don’t think we need more flag. But it can be a sub flag, if someone need to express their ideas and identities.
Bof. Pis ce genre de drapeau doit venir de la rue, pas d’un studio de design trop branché numérique.
