Autism Spectrum Pride Flag #
This is an autism spectrum pride flag that I designed and am offering to the community for anyone to use in any way they desire. If you use it somewhere online, credit and/or a link back to this post would be lovely, if that makes sense, but is not required. That is, it's released under a CC0 license.
I'm getting it tattooed on my shoulder in a few weeks.
I've made the image available as an SVG, in HTML and CSS, as well as in PNG formats for the original 2x1 ratio, 19x6, 3x2, 4x1, square, and golden ratio. The font on the ∞ symbol is Old Standard Regular.
- spectrum-pride.svg
- spectrum-pride.png
- spectrum-pride-16x9.png
- spectrum-pride-3x2.png
- spectrum-pride-4x1.png
- spectrum-pride-golden.png
- spectrum-pride-square.png
- spectrum-pride.html
- OldStandard-Regular.otf
- LICENSE.html
Why Yet Another Autism Pride Flag? #
Yes, there are some other autism/neuroqueer pride flags. They're fine, and if you like them, I support them and you and your use of them.
However, as I have Colors Autism, I didn't feel a connection to the "rainbow infinity on gold" or "muted spectrum" or especially "green means autism" designs. To be honest, I'm surprised that this simple design hasn't already been made and passed around, though maybe I just missed it in my search, since it required roughly zero creativity. So it's possible I'm ripping someone else off, in which case, my apologies, and any links to prior art are welcome.
This is different from others in the following ways:
- The spectrum is an actual spectrum, with the 7 colors most
commonly differentiated by humans with trichromatic vision: red
#FF0000, orange#FF8800, yellow#FFFF00, green#008800, cyan#00FFFF, blue#0000FF, violet#8800FF, overlaid with the ∞ symbol in black#000000. - The colors do not each have secret unstated cultural meanings;
ie, "red" is not for "love", etc. They together form a
spectrum, that is the point. No single color can represent our
diversity (not even Gold, though admittedly, the
Aupun is very cute). Like our speech and manner, these colors are just what they appear to be. - The 7 pointed star is the Faery Star, and 7 is a number associated with the fae and otherkin. Changelings and other fae folklore are a culture's way of grappling with neurodiversity, especially autism. Hence, 7 colors. Also that's a prime number, which is rad.
- Autism is a natural facet of the human experience, and so the flag presents the spectrum with red on top, as rainbows appear in nature, not twisted around into a different shape, because we deserve to take up space and not conform.
- The colors are not muted or pastel. They are full intensity, like the painfully/beautifully luminous and oversaturated autistic experience itself.
- It's gay af.
Comments welcome, but if you just don't like it or it doesn't resonate with you, I encourage you to make your own different thing :)