Biromantic Pride Flag (Grey Heart, 2016)
Identity Pride Flag ·
Pride-Flags published this biromantic design on April 26, 2016. It uses three pink, purple, and blue bands with a small solid grey heart in the upper hoist. The account supplied a definition of biromantic attraction but did not identify the flag's designer or publish meanings for its colors. [1]
Key facts
- Designer
- Unknown
- Created
- Publication on DeviantArt
- In use
- 2016 to present
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the Pride-Flags source file, 5000 by 3000, exactly 5:3, so the proportion published here comes from the artifact rather than a default. [1]
- Stripes
- 3
- Represented Identity
- biromantic
Also known as
- Biromantic Pride Flag (1)
- Biromantic Grey Heart Flag
Status Proposed
Archive categories Sexual & Romantic Orientation Pride Flags
Overview
No creator statement has been located. [1]
Pride-Flags published the design on 26 April 2016 as "Biromantic Pride Flag (1)", a 5000 by 3000 file, with the definition "Bi - Attraction to two or more genders, or the same and other genders" and no designer credit. [1]
Identity & Context
- Represented Identity
- biromantic
- Subcommunity
- bi+ romantic orientation
Biromantic describes romantic attraction to two or more genders. The deviation gives it as "Bi - Attraction to two or more genders, or the same and other genders". [1]
Creators
The Creator
Unknown
Designer
The designer of this proposal is not named in any located source. The surviving file establishes the artifact and its publication date but not its authorship. [1] If you can identify the designer, the archive would like to hear from you.
Pride-Flags
Publisher and rendering source
The DeviantArt archive that published the surviving 5000 by 3000 file on 26 April 2016, its page displaying 25 April in Pacific time. [1] It publishes renderings of other people’s designs and credits makers where it knows them; it names none here.
Attribution notes
The designer is not identified. Pride-Flags published the surviving file on 26 April 2016 and names no designer; it republishes other people’s designs, so hosting it is not authorship. [1] The account’s statement that designs in its gallery are free to use for pride-related purposes governs its own rendering and does not resolve the identity or the rights of the unknown underlying designer. Those two scopes are recorded separately.
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Yes
Digital origin; no verified physical location.
Digital origin on DeviantArt. No physical origin is documented. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- Publication on DeviantArt
- Period in Use
- 2016 to present
The design circulates in flag archives. No formal organizational adoption has been located. [1]
A second, differently constructed biromantic design followed from the same account on 10 May 2016, lightening the field outside a large centred heart. The two are separate publications with different palettes and different heart devices, and are archived separately. [2]
The flag was one of a run. Pride-Flags uploaded four designs carrying this same grey heart within twenty-two seconds of one another on 25 April 2016 Pacific, covering biromantic, polyromantic, panromantic and homoromantic, and in the same session uploaded further designs using a different romantic marker, a heart that lightens the field around it. The grey heart was therefore one of two treatments the account was placing that night rather than a device made for this flag. [3]
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Bisexual Pride Flag
The bisexual flag is a documented visual source: the artifact reproduces its three-band construction and its 40:20:40 proportions directly, and the companion documentation for this family credits Michael Page’s flag. [1][4] The centred-heart biromantic proposal published a month later is a sibling proposal rather than a revision of this one; neither source presents either as a correction of the other. [2] CallieCat030’s seven-band 2021 design is a separate later flag.
Lineage tree
Every record reachable from this one through documented parent and child relationships: 2 records across 2 generations.
- Ancestor
- Bisexual Pride Flag
- This record
- Biromantic Pride Flag (Grey Heart, 2016)
Colors & Symbolism
No meanings were published with the design. The three bands reproduce the bisexual flag’s construction, and a small grey heart sits in the upper left. [1] Hearts were used across several biromantic proposals of this period to mark romantic rather than sexual orientation; read that way, the heart here follows a repeated visual convention. That reading is an editorial interpretation of the convention and is not a documented statement by the designer, who has not been identified.
| Colour | Hex | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Pink | #DD2785 | No meaning was published for this band. Readings of the equivalent bisexual band are inherited rather than original. [1] |
| Purple | #8869A5 | No meaning was published for this band. Readings of the equivalent bisexual band are inherited rather than original. [1] |
| Blue | #2656B4 | No meaning was published for this band. Readings of the equivalent bisexual band are inherited rather than original. [1] |
| Grey heart | #CCCCCC | A small solid heart in the upper hoist, measured #CCCCCC. It is filled, not an outline. No meaning was published for it. [5][1] |
These hexadecimal values are exact measurements from the cited 5000 by 3000 source PNG. They document that artifact rather than a creator-issued color specification. [5]
The deviation carries a definition of biromantic attraction and no colour meanings. Any reading of the bands is inherited from later interpretation of the bisexual flag and is secondary. [1]
Three band values and the heart, measured from the 5000 by 3000 source file rather than issued by a creator: the deviation publishes no colour specification and names no designer. [1] The heart is a flat #CCCCCC and is filled rather than an outline. The three bands sit in the bisexual flag’s 40:20:40 proportions.
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the Pride-Flags source file, 5000 by 3000, exactly 5:3, so the proportion published here comes from the artifact rather than a default. [1]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 3
- Layout
- horizontal_stripes
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Pink, Purple, Blue
- Additional Symbols
- Grey heart in the upper hoist
Three horizontal bands in the bisexual flag’s proportions, measured at 1201, 602 and 1197 rows in the 3000-row source file, which is 40:20:40. A small grey heart sits in the upper left rather than at the centre. [1]
Three bands at 40:20:40 with a small filled grey heart in the upper hoist. No lightening of the field, which is what separates this design from the biromantic flag the same account published two weeks later, where the bands outside the heart are lightened. [5][4]
Three horizontal bands of pink, purple and blue in a 40:20:40 division at full saturation, with a small solid grey heart in the upper hoist. [5]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- DeviantArt, where the design was published [1], Flag archives
- Current Status
- documented online proposal; archival circulation only
The design circulates in flag archives. No formal organizational adoption has been located. [1]
Image Archive
2016 Publication
Archive Reconstruction
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
- The heart is solid and filled, not an outline, and it sits in the upper hoist rather than at the centre of the flag. [5]
- This flag is not the biromantic design published two weeks later. That one differs in palette, in the size and placement of its heart, and in construction, since it lightens the bands outside the heart rather than overlaying a solid shape. [4][5]
The deviation defines the term it illustrates as "Bi - Attraction to two or more genders, or the same and other genders." [1]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 5 sources
- 1. Image file page Biromantic Pride Flag (1). Published by Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-04-26). Accessed 2026-08-16
The publication, 5000 by 3000. Description: "Bi - Attraction to two or more genders, or the same and other genders." No designer is named.
- 2. Image file page Biromantic. Published by Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-05-10). Accessed 2026-08-16
The later centred-heart design from the same account, archived separately.
- 3. Designer page Companion biromantic and polyromantic deviations, April 2016. Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-04-25). Accessed 2026-08-17
Companion deviations published by the same account carrying the same grey heart in the same position.
- 4. Social media Bi-. pride-color-schemes. Tumblr (2016-07-01). Accessed 2026-08-17
The publisher's companion blog documenting both 2016 biromantic designs with image descriptions. Its only designer credit, "Flag designed by : Michael Page (1998)", belongs to the underlying bisexual flag; neither biromantic design is credited.
- 5. Image file page Source PNG behind the 26 April 2016 publication, 5000 by 3000. Published by Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-04-26). Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
The downloaded file, measured for this entry: 118,713 bytes, bands 1201/602/1197, values #DD2785, #8869A5, #2656B4 and a solid #CCCCCC heart spanning x 190-1340 and y 210-1300.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- the grey-heart design published 26 April 2016
- Encycloflaggia reconstruction of the grey-heart biromantic design · Credit: Designer unknown; reconstruction by Encycloflaggia · Encycloflaggia · reconstructionRights Archive-produced reconstruction; heart outline traced from the 2016 source PNG
- The 5000 by 3000 file published by Pride-Flags on 26 April 2016 · Credit: Published by Pride-Flags; designer unknown · DeviantArt · verifiedRights Gallery reuse statement located; no formal licence
- The source artifact: 5000 by 3000 pixels, published by Pride-Flags on 26 April 2016 under the title "Biromantic Pride Flag (1)". Measured #DD2785, #8869A5 and #2656B4 with a solid #CCCCCC heart. [1][5] · Credit: Published by Pride-Flags; designer unknown · DeviantArt · Gallery reuse statement located; no formal licence
- The archive's reconstruction, with the heart outline traced from the source PNG rather than approximated. [5] · Credit: Designer unknown; reconstruction by Encycloflaggia · Encycloflaggia reconstruction · Archive-produced reconstruction, subject to the rights status of the underlying design