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!
Those are some fucked up palm lines. Heart line is okay ish, strong. Head and life lines are… I don’t event know if those have a boilerplate reading they are so unnatural. This pirate might be headed for the love of their life or an early, traumatic death. Godspeed.
On a more serious note, I would suggest you consider simplifying the hand to a solid hand. The hand as-is would be very difficult to reproduce and draws attention from the overall flag design.
Not sure about an icon or flag to depict the idea of announcing Hey I’m For Privacy!! Feels like it goes against the whole principle. It’s along the same lines of stickers on a vehicle, stick family tells (most times) exactly how many people and animals w/types are within the household, gun logos indicate a high probability of an abundance of weaponry, a privacy flag may promote someone to look deeper into you with the premise well they want privacy so they must have something to hide, mentality. I’m private I don’t need to draw attention to me being private. But you do you. Just my opinion.
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)
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.
My proposals:
Idea is good, execution needs some work imho. As many have pointed out this is not a good combination of symbols. I showed this to 5 different people too and none of them were able to guess its meaning. I’m all for a symbol to show engagement towards the privacy movement, such as the privacy manifesto. Just not quite like this.
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
