Biromantic Asexual Pride Flag (Nikki, 2022)
Identity Pride Flag ·
The asexual flag with a heart in the bisexual colours at its centre, hand-coded as an 812-byte SVG by the Wikimedia contributor Nikki on 24 July 2022 and released under CC0. It illustrates articles on four Wikipedias and leads the Portuguese one. A materially identical design was published on DeviantArt six years earlier; nothing connects the two. [1][2][3]
Key facts
- Designer
- Nikki
- Created
- Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
- Documented
- 24 July 2022 to the present
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Ratio Notes
- Nikki's SVG is 800 wide by 480 high, which is 5:3. The ratio field follows this archive's height:width convention and therefore reads 3:5 for the same proportion. [1]
- Stripes
- 4
- Represented Identity
- Biromantic asexual people
Also known as
- Biromantic Asexual Pride Flag
Status Variant
Archive categories Sexual & Romantic Orientation Pride Flags
Overview
A combination flag for biromantic asexual identity: the asexual flag's four stripes with a heart at the centre in the bisexual palette, marking romantic rather than sexual attraction. Made and uploaded by the Wikimedia Commons user Nikki on 24 July 2022. Unusually for a flag of this kind, it has encyclopedia use: it illustrates the Romantic orientation article on the English Wikipedia and its French counterpart, and the Asexuality article on the Polish Wikipedia. [1]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- Biromantic asexual people
- Subcommunity
- People at the overlap of asexual and biromantic communities
The design marks a split attraction: the asexual flag's field for sexual orientation, and a heart in the bisexual flag's colours for romantic orientation. That is what the artwork shows. The creator publishes no statement of what it means, and no definition of either term is asserted here on the strength of the flag alone. [1]
Creators
The Creator
Nikki
Author of the file
A Wikimedia contributor active since May 2011, with a home wiki on Commons and more than a million and a half edits across the projects, most of them on Wikidata. Nikki has uploaded dozens of pride flags since 2020 and writes SVGs by hand: "I create my SVGs by hand in a text editor. The only program I know of for editing SVGs visually is Inkscape which I find too confusing to use." This file bears that out at 812 bytes, with no editor metadata and no generator comment. The Commons user page publishes only a language box, so no name, pronouns or location are stated and none is inferred here. [4]
I create my SVGs by hand in a text editor.
Replying to another contributor on the Commons user talk page, 20 June 2021.
Attribution notes
The file is Nikki's, declared as own work and released under CC0. [1] Nikki is a long-standing Wikimedia contributor rather than an account made for this, with a global registration in May 2011 and well over a million edits across the projects, and has uploaded dozens of pride flags since 2020. [4] Nikki publishes nothing personal: the Commons user page holds a language box and nothing else. No statement by Nikki of what this design means has been located anywhere, and the file's description is the flag's name and nothing more. [1][4]
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Yes
Nikki's 2022 rendering originated on Wikimedia Commons. The same essential arrangement is independently documented on DeviantArt in 2016. No physical geographic origin is documented for either artifact, and none is inferred from either account. [1][3]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Exact date
- Uploaded to Wikimedia Commons
- Documented
- 24 July 2022 to the present
- Creation Bounds
- Uploaded on 24 July 2022 at 18:33:41 UTC, with the file's own date field giving the same day. [1] The Wikidata item for the design, Q113254458, was created three hours and twenty-six minutes earlier that afternoon by a different editor, who attached this image to it fifty-nine seconds after it was uploaded. [4] What that sequence means is not documented and no source explains it. This date is for the file, not for the design: see Lineage.
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Asexual Pride Flag, Bisexual Pride Flag
The file is built from the two canonical Commons flags, and the code shows it. The heart's three fills, #0038a8, #9b4f96 and #d60270, are the bisexual flag's three colours exactly, stacked largest-first in the same idiom that file uses. The four background stripes match the asexual flag in the same way, down to an unusual habit: in both files the black stripe carries no fill attribute at all and renders black only because that is the SVG default. [1][5]
A materially identical design predates this file by more than six years. The DeviantArt account Pride-Flags published "Asexual Biromantic Combo Flag" on 23 April 2016, showing the four-stripe asexual flag with a dark-outlined heart carrying the bisexual colours, and its whole description is "Combo Flag requests are always open!" [3] Nothing links the two. Nikki's file declares own work and neither party mentions the other, and a combination this simple can be arrived at twice. The 2016 publication is recorded because the 2022 file is not the design's first appearance, whatever the relationship between them. A second Pride-Flags work of 2021 under a similar title is a different five-stripe design with no heart and is not part of this. [3]
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 3 records across 2 generations.
- Ancestor
- Bisexual Pride Flag, Asexual Pride Flag
- This record
- Biromantic Asexual Pride Flag (Nikki, 2022)
Colors & Symbolism
The design carries the split attraction model in two parts: the asexual flag for sexual orientation as the field, and a bisexual heart for romantic orientation as the charge. No statement of meaning by the file's author has been located, and the Commons description is the flag's name and nothing else. [1]
| Colour | Hex | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Black | #000000 | Stripe 1. Not declared in the file: the path carries no fill attribute and renders black because that is the SVG default. Recorded as a rendered result. [1] |
| Grey | #A3A3A3 | Stripe 2, declared in the file. [1] |
| White | #FFFFFF | Stripe 3, declared as #fff. [1] |
| Purple | #800080 | Stripe 4, declared in the file. [1] |
| Magenta | #D60270 | Top of the heart. The bisexual flag's magenta. [1][5] |
| Lavender | #9B4F96 | Middle of the heart. The bisexual flag's purple. [1][5] |
| Royal blue | #0038A8 | Bottom of the heart. The bisexual flag's blue. [1][5] |
The reading above follows from the construction rather than from any statement by the file's author. The heart visually distinguishes the romantic component from the asexual field, but no separate creator statement explaining the symbol has been located, and the Commons description is the flag's name and nothing else. [1]
Read from the SVG source rather than sampled, so these are the values the file declares, with the one exception noted: the black stripe is not declared anywhere. Any colour table for this design that lists black as a specified value is recording what a renderer produced. [1]
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · standard
- Ratio Notes
- Nikki's SVG is 800 wide by 480 high, which is 5:3. The ratio field follows this archive's height:width convention and therefore reads 3:5 for the same proportion. [1]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 4
- Layout
- horizontal stripes with a central charge
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Black, Grey, White, Purple
- Center Symbol
- A heart carrying the bisexual flag's three colours, outlined in black
Four horizontal stripes of exactly equal depth, each a quarter of the 960-unit height, in the asexual flag's black, grey, white and purple. At the centre, a heart clipped from three full-width bands in the bisexual flag's blue, purple and magenta, then redrawn as a black outline ten units wide over the fill. The heart path is noticeably asymmetric between its left and right lobes. Read from the SVG source. [1]
812 bytes of hand-written SVG. Both the stripes and the heart's bands are painted largest-first, each later shape overpainting the top of the one before, which is how the canonical asexual and bisexual files are written too. [1]
The four asexual stripes with a large heart at the centre carrying the bisexual flag's magenta, lavender and blue.
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- English Wikipedia, Romantic orientation, in the Symbols and Flags gallery [2], French Wikipedia, Orientation romantique, in the Drapeaux gallery [2], Portuguese Wikipedia, Birromanticidade, as the article's lead image [2], Polish Wikipedia, Aseksualność [2], Wikidata, as the image on the item for the design and in the LGBT flags list [4]
- Current Status
- In use as an encyclopedia illustration; manufactured commercially
Six pages across four Wikipedias and Wikidata embed the file, which makes the encyclopedias, rather than any community, its documented users. On the Portuguese Wikipedia it is the lead image of the article on birromanticidade. [2] Beyond Wikimedia, the design is manufactured: Globe Flags lists an Asexual Biromantic Pride Flag in polyester with stitched edges and brass grommets, whose product image shows this construction. Commerce documents availability rather than adoption, and the listing names no designer. [6]
Image Archive
Lineage
Earlier identical design, 2016
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 6 sources
- 1. Image file page File:Biromantic asexual pride flag.svg. Nikki. Wikimedia Commons (2022-07-24). Accessed 2026-08-16
The file itself, read as wikitext, as SVG source and through the API: the own-work declaration, the CC0 licence, the upload timestamp, and the declared colours.
- 2. Encyclopedias & Reference Pages embedding File:Biromantic asexual pride flag.svg. Wikimedia. Accessed 2026-08-16
Wikimedia's cross-wiki usage record, with the four Wikipedia articles confirmed by opening each one and reading its caption.
- 3. Asexual Biromantic Combo Flag. Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-04-23). Accessed 2026-08-16
The earlier publication of the same arrangement, timestamped 2016-04-23T12:48:04-07:00 on the page. Published by the Pride-Flags account, which names no individual author. The previously recorded deviation id 606398377 does not resolve; 604696687 is the live page.
- 4. Databases User:Nikki and Wikidata item Q113254458. Wikimedia. Accessed 2026-08-16
The author's account record and the design's Wikidata item, cited for the account's history, the hand-coding statement, and the item's creation and image-attachment times.
- 5. Image file page File:Bisexual Pride Flag.svg and File:Asexual Pride Flag.svg. Wikimedia Commons. Accessed 2026-08-16
The two parent files, read as SVG source to confirm that this flag's colours and construction idiom are taken from them exactly.
- 6. Retail listing Asexual Biromantic Pride Flag. Globe Flags. Accessed 2026-08-16
A manufacturer's listing of the design as a physical flag. Cited for the fact of manufacture only; it names no designer and makes no claim about origin.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- source_artwork
- The flag shown is the creator's own file from Wikimedia Commons, CC0 1.0. [1]
- The bisexual flag, Michael Page's design. Its three fills, #d60270, #9b4f96 and #0038a8, are the heart's three colours in this flag exactly, stacked in the same largest-first order. [5] · Credit: Michael Page (design); Commons file in the public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- The asexual flag, the AVEN design as drawn for Commons by AnonMoos. This flag takes its four stripes, and copies an unusual habit from the file: in both, the black stripe carries no fill attribute and renders black only by the SVG default. [5] · Credit: AVEN (design); AnonMoos (SVG file); Commons file in the public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Asexual Biromantic Combo Flag, published by the DeviantArt account Pride-Flags on 23 April 2016: the same arrangement as Nikki’s 2022 file, six years earlier. No source connects the two. [3] · Credit: Pride-Flags (DeviantArt account); no individual author named · DeviantArt · Not established. The page states no reuse terms.