Perisex flag ideas: request for feedback
Earlier today I came across this perisex flag design (on the left) by @clowncaraz and was inspired to play with the design a bit. I've got two versions I made (middle, right) that I'd like to share and get feedback on what people prefer! 💜
I liked the cut purple box in clowncaraz's design and got the idea of old-school balancing scales ⚖️ with Wolffian on one side and Müllerian on the other. It also got me thinking of a split arrow design and how every zygote starts out with the same (lack of) sex characteristics.
But the sun in clowncaraz's design admittedly confused me 😅 - I first read it as an Ox or as the top of the Mercury symbol. So I thought I'd iterate and play with the balancing scales/split arrow idea.
Here's my first version:
I darkened the periwinkle and use white for the centre icon to represent all the possibilities one can do with a perisex body. The periwinkle represents being perisex, and is the opposite (180-degree) colour of intersex yellow in okLCH colour space.
Second version:
This is a simplified version of the first - it loses the top middle line. It looks cleaner to me, but I think the theming isn't quite as clear.
Which version do you prefer? Do you have suggestions on how to further iterate the design? Ty! 🩵
Thank you all for the feedback! I've got two new versions thanks to feedback from @clowncaraz and @scifimagpie
A concern is that the Venus-style arrow and Mars-style arrow are associated with gender, and for some folks it would be productive to decouple sex and gender imagery.
Right now, the proposed gender symbols for Wolffian and Mullerian double down on the Mars/Venus thing. So as an alternative, how about electronics symbols for "female" and "male" connectors:
Which leads to... Version 3!
And new ideas for symbols fol Mullerian and Wollfian:
The result is a little visually unbalanced though. So clowncaraz suggested Version 4:
If anybody know if these suggested sex symbols have already been used for a gender/etc symbol please let me know! Reverse google image search didn't give me much of use.