That gold silver bronze flag is too bright and hurts my eyes. Your soft rainbow is still the best.
Thanks for the compliment!! 🌷🌷
I don't want to criticize the "Overcoming" flag too much, because A) I don't want to start "Flag Discourse," B) it was also (like mine, albeit independently) made to represent multiple disabilities, rather than using one symbol to represent us all, and -- most important --C) has already been adopted by the U.N., and is recognized by leaders around the world.
So it's important, I think, that people know what it is, what it represents, and what people are trying to say when they fly it.
I think it's fine, as flags go. I just don't think it's enough to represent our fight for freedom and equity on the grass-roots scale -- the Paralympics, the U.N., government officials -- all of that is stuff is at the multi-national, official policy level. It's important, but it's not visceral. It's not personal. I designed this flag (What nickname should I give it? it deserves something cool), from the beginning, to be a personal statement -- and to be used as a marker for social gatherings (online or irl).
As I understand it, the Overcoming Flag wasn't even designed on a computer, much less meant to be viewed on one. -- it was sewn together from silk panels. And when it is flown, it's generally from flagpoles on top of government buildings (it being an official U.N. Flag), where further haze from the air makes the colors softer (and also smaller and farther away).
As with anything, context is everything..
