Caedplatonic Flag Redesigns
1st (My Favorite) Redesign
2nd Redesign
3rd Redesign
[Image Descriptions: All three flags have the same 8 stripes. The top stripe is a bold yellow. The stripes that follow slowly darken, decrease in saturation, and slowly progress towards the color orange. However, because the stripes darken as they move down, the stripes appear to be the same colors as a variety of brown and black skin tones. To simplify, the 8 stripes can be viewed as a gradient from a bold yellow to a very dark brown bottom stripe. On the first two flags, a faint yellow half circle is in the center of the flag. The diameter of the circle is one third of the length of the flag. The half circle is face down with the flat side being closer to and parallel to the bottom of the flag. The half circle in the first flag is a gradient, with the upper part of the circle being more solid and the base part being more transparent. For the second flag, the half circle is solid. There is no half circle symbol on the third flag.]
Color Meanings of the Stripes: The top stripe, a bold yellow, represents platonic attraction.
The second stripe, which is a bit too yellow to be a realistic skin tone, and a bit too dark to comfortably be considered a “yellow,” can be viewed as gold; to remind caedplatonics that we are precious and valuable.
The following stripes become darker as they go down, and can be viewed as a variety of brown and black skin tones. The transition of the top bold yellow stripe to darker colors represents the transition of the abstract, internal, and intangible experience of platonic attraction to actual people and individuality. In other words, instead of experiencing platonic attraction to start new friendships and maintain old friendships, caedplatonic people can now more objectively see people, without the influence of platonic attraction.
Color Meaning of the Symbol: The color of the symbol was colorpicked from the faint yellow in the aplatonic flag, and represents the aplaspec community.
Meaning of the Symbol: The half circle was chosen as a symbol due to the creator [me😜💅] being inspired from the following children’s rhyme: “A circle is round, it has no end, that’s how long I want to be your friend.” The idea specifically for the gradient half circle was applied due to the symbolization of alloplatonic attraction existing at some point and then vanishing over time due to trauma. The gradient half circle (which fades from the faint yellow to transparent) exaggerates its incompleteness, since the gradient half circle lacks an edge along its base. Both symbols being incomplete circles, or half circles, cannot live up to the reputation of the circle [regarding friendship] in the children’s rhyme, due to not being whole, able to connect, or able to “loop”. Essentially, the half circle is not “continuous” the way a circle’s shape is “continuous”.
In the same way a complete circle can represent alloplatonic attraction, the half circle can represent a caedplatonic person’s platonic attraction; specifically, how the platonic attraction was able to be experienced when one was younger (such as childhood), and now that caedplatonic person’s platonic attraction is no longer the same, or what it used to be. A full, solid circle could represent alloplatonic attraction, whereas the half circle could emphasize how the platonic attraction has been “cut away”, lost, and/or no longer experienced by the caedplatonic person.
Finally, the half circle can be seen as a faint yellow silhouette of a rainbow (an iconic queer symbol) to remind caedplatonics that we are queer and part of the LGBTIAPQ+ community.