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I made a new default icon, as you can see.

It matches the icon I use on my Tumblr, now.

I wanted to see if the design parameters for my Disability Pride Flag worked in different proportions than the ones I used originally, because I want this to be a design that's relatively fast & easy to produce, say, a protest picket sign, that can be drawn out on whatever size cardboard (or tee-shirt front) you happen to have, without too many mathematical calculations.

Also, I've been alternating between feeling glum and Grawrl!, and frankly, the pale grey and pastel rainbow colors just weren't cutting it, any more.... You know?

So.

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From:

alatefeline

<3

It is a good icon.

From:

capri0mni

Thank you.

It's also a good test to see if it would make a good flag, because of all the places an icon shows up as a mini-version of itself -- if it's still legible while tiny, you know the flag will be discernible at a distance.

It's better as a 3x5 rectangle ('cause the stripes are wider/easier to see), but it's okay as a square.

From:

jesse_the_k

Squares mean fewer choices for me (endlessly framing & reframing my pictures, yes).

I'm going to try to create one following your instructions and let you know how wonderful it was (I hope).

Glum/grar/glum/grar ... more fun to say than to be.

From:

capri0mni

I'm going to try to create one following your instructions and let you know how wonderful it was

Good! That will also help me revise the directions (as needed).

Glum/grar/glum/grar ... more fun to say than to be.

This is true. :-/

From:

pebblerocker

At this size it makes me think of Florentine embroidery - it would look good stitched with bright thread on a bag flap or similar. The more different ways you use the design, the more I get to like it!

From:

capri0mni

*Nod*

I've been wishing there was a Disability Pride flag, specifically, since I attended (and was deeply disappointed by) the local (so-called) "celebration" of the ADA's 20th anniversary.

But This TED talk on flag design (18 minutes) convinced me that it was more important then "Gee, it'd be nice, if..." And one point the presenter repeated several times, is that a flag should be "remixable" -- the more ways you can adapt it, and still have it be recognizable, the better.