About
It has always bothered me that privacy has no unified symbol. Every community has their own take on how privacy should be visualized. I want to unify the privacy community across the internet. It is my belief that, with a universal symbol for privacy, we will grow stronger. We will have a symbol to represent us. We will have a flag to fly.
Icon
The icon is a clipart created by librarian Gordon Dylan Johnson which can be found here. The size of the icon is large enough to still fit if the flag is cropped to a square/circular aspect ratio.
Dimensions
The size of the flag is 140 by 90 centimeters. These dimensions are chosen because of the dimensions of a Tor Browser window (1400x900 pixels).
Colors
The color blue (Azure) was chosen because it symbolizes security, stability, and reliability. The exact shade of blue used is the same azure color used by the flag of Europe, because of GDPR.
Design
This flag follows the “Principals of design” for vexillography.
Use it!
Use this flag for group chats, communities, profiles, stickers, patches, articles, wallpapers, real flags, anything you want to! Spread it around so it becomes a global icon for privacy. Even put it on the Wikipedia page for privacy if you can!
You are a dreamer, and this is exactly what we need. Two hands up for that.
But before designing a flag, we first need to agree on the symbolism.
There are two types of symbols. Anti symbols and pro symbols.
Anti symbols are easier to make, because they comes from reaction. Its easy to see whats wrong. “anarchism is order” and “stop war” stickers are anti symbols.
But pro symbols are harder because they require us to understand what we are fighting for. The rainbow flag and the aboriginal flag are pro flags, because they show what they are fighting for. The rainbow flag fights for diversity, while the aboriginal flag establishes a connection between people, land and the sun.
In short, I believe that a pro symbol would be better for gleedening people into the struggle.
With this in mind, I think we should fundamenrally understand why privacy matters, and make symbols out of that.
I really like the idea of a flag to unify the privacy community but I’m going to go with the consensus with the hand: it’s probably a bit too complex. I think a flag should be easily made into a vector format that is easy to draw and replicate.
Say if someone wanted to draw a protest board with this on it. It would be really difficult to accurately draw the hand without good drawing skills.
Honestly, looks good to me.
While i like the idea, this flag gives instant super-creepy vibes, i would NOT like to use it unless it’s for a bad guys faction in a game or story or something like that
first thought that came across my mind is the Black Hand of the Brotherhood of Nod
I guess it’s nice that it follows the principles of design for flags, but it still looks off somehow. the minimalism of the eye vs the more detailed hand print seemed at odds.
A simpler less detailed hand print IMO would look better. Like the Black Hand of Nod. also less detailed Hand print = less/no fingerprinting across internet
I’m pretty sure every kid in kindergarten knows an easier way to draw a hand.
Yeah the hand is way too complicated and hard to identify from far away. Also, proper identification requires some amount of wind, which is not the kind of dependency you want to integrate into your flag design. That’s why stripes are so common.
Black Hand of the Brotherhood of Nod
Empire of the Hand from Star Wars.
Added: yikes, lots of black hands, many unsavory.
I don’t like it. It screams “FINGERPRINT ME!”
A symbol for privacy should imply privacy. Not show things that which should be protected. (like your handprints or fingerprints)
Can we get one with a more feminine looking hand as well? That looks like Dr. Sausagefingers hand
I don’t know why you were downvoted. It looks stupid.
Yeah, I mean it looks like some edgy Dark Brotherhood shit from an Elder Scrolls game, not something with a respectable message such as the right to privacy.
I get your point and idea. And I agree, there should be a symbol. But in a world full of symbols, where there is lot of symbols that overlap or mean the same thing, it’s not a great thing to ad more symbols.
I would suggest, that people instead use the symbol for human rights. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Logo
This logo stand for rights and freedom, which is not in opposition to anything, but for something. Article 8 in the Human Rights, are about the right to privacy:
This should be enough. I’d suggest people use this, and support human rights in general.
This flag follows the “Principals of design” for vexillography.
Except…
6. Seals, coats of arms, or logos are usually too complex to be used effectively on a flag, although exceptions exist
Cool idea
It’s practically tradition for open source logos to be hideous I suppose.
Come on… you do not have to like it but at least don’t insult an entire field dedicated to helping fellow other beings while providing 0 suggestion.
You might be smart but you certainly are not kind.
Do better.
Cringe
i thought privacy have flag - anonymous
that’s sooo fetch!
Going to be an unpopular opinion here. But i think the mixing of sharp curves, with very pixelish, textured hand is not really playing well together. Mixing these two styles are not easy and I have tried and failed several times. So I don’t think I can help much. But this really needs some rework IMO. I know this is not your artwork, so I’m just expressing what I felt.
Agreed, not a fan. The hand would look better if it wasn’t aiming for realistic contours, and instead was more cartoon-ish
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Why is the eye more significant than the hand?
