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Just a last-minute submission for the LGBTQ+ Pride Month: The Arc is Long event; the last part of this month was rather hectic, and I had effectively given up on submitting anything for it until after sunset. This is my first entry for any DeviantArt LGBTQ Pride event, though not my first or second choice to submit for said event, which was some character art () and a set of more vexillologically-derivative flags, respectively. (And yes, I do plan on submitting those in the relatively near future.)

This is my attempt at designing a Pride flag that contains all the colors and color couplets, and thus the meanings of, the mainline historic and current ones—specifically the original flag, 1978 flag, the Classic flag, the Philadelphia Pride flag, and the Progress Pride flag—while avoiding the inequality of color area present in the last. I arranged it in the order of an Electromagnetic spectrum, with Black simulating radio waves, Brown simulating infrared, Lavender simulating near-ultraviolet, White simulating ultraviolet and X-rays, and Teal simulating Cherenkov radiation emitted as a result of ultra-high-energy particle interactions. (All the shades chosen in this rendition, by the way, are taken from those used in official DeviantArt images.) It is designed for either vertical or horizontal display, as can be seen by me, well, including images of it being displayed both horizontally and vertically; its canton- and chevron-less nature means it can reach a more extravagant length as a banner reasonably than the Progress Pride flag can, but the nominal ratio as used here is the golden ratio. I also considered a much squatter 8:11, which is also acceptable.

I have conceived of at least 4 alternate versions of this concept, but 2 were less than competent in my opinion and two others were beyond my capability to create given time and software constraints. (I will also be submitting the latter ones when I have time to resolve those constraints.)

The flag was assembled on paint.NET, while the rendering was courtesy of the Online Flag Waver tool. While the flag's construction was mostly simple, complications with attempting the first 2 alternate versions taught me more about the Blending modes in the program... so I indeed learned something useful like in my last rushed artwork .

I initially was debating on whether I have the right to design a Pride flag, but as far as I know myself, I am aromantic and... a bit bisexual (Kinsey Scale 1), so I guess I qualify?

Anyway, hope you all had a happy Pride Month this year (), and if you didn't... well, that's what organization is for!

(Edit as of 04:44 Eastern Standard Time on 2022-07-01: Oh, wait, here's this version of the flag in all its sub-kilobyte glory!)

Description
Just a last-minute submission for the LGBTQ+ Pride Month: The Arc is Long event; the last part of this month was rather hectic, and I had effectively given up on submitting anything for it until after sunset. This is my first entry for any DeviantArt LGBTQ Pride event, though not my first or second choice to submit for said event, which was some character art () and a set of more vexillologically-derivative flags, respectively. (And yes, I do plan on submitting those in the relatively near future.)

This is my attempt at designing a Pride flag that contains all the colors and color couplets, and thus the meanings of, the mainline historic and current ones—specifically the original flag, 1978 flag, the Classic flag, the Philadelphia Pride flag, and the Progress Pride flag—while avoiding the inequality of color area present in the last. I arranged it in the order of an Electromagnetic spectrum, with Black simulating radio waves, Brown simulating infrared, Lavender simulating near-ultraviolet, White simulating ultraviolet and X-rays, and Teal simulating Cherenkov radiation emitted as a result of ultra-high-energy particle interactions. (All the shades chosen in this rendition, by the way, are taken from those used in official DeviantArt images.) It is designed for either vertical or horizontal display, as can be seen by me, well, including images of it being displayed both horizontally and vertically; its canton- and chevron-less nature means it can reach a more extravagant length as a banner reasonably than the Progress Pride flag can, but the nominal ratio as used here is the golden ratio. I also considered a much squatter 8:11, which is also acceptable.

I have conceived of at least 4 alternate versions of this concept, but 2 were less than competent in my opinion and two others were beyond my capability to create given time and software constraints. (I will also be submitting the latter ones when I have time to resolve those constraints.)

The flag was assembled on paint.NET, while the rendering was courtesy of the Online Flag Waver tool. While the flag's construction was mostly simple, complications with attempting the first 2 alternate versions taught me more about the Blending modes in the program... so I indeed learned something useful like in my last rushed artwork .

I initially was debating on whether I have the right to design a Pride flag, but as far as I know myself, I am aromantic and... a bit bisexual (Kinsey Scale 1), so I guess I qualify?

Anyway, hope you all had a happy Pride Month this year (), and if you didn't... well, that's what organization is for!

(Edit as of 04:44 Eastern Standard Time on 2022-07-01: Oh, wait, here's this version of the flag in all its sub-kilobyte glory!)