Biromantic Pride Flag (Centered Heart, 2016)
Identity Pride Flag ·
Three bands in the bisexual flag’s 40:20:40 proportions, lightened across the field, with a large centred heart carrying the saturated bisexual colours. Published by the Pride-Flags DeviantArt account on 10 May 2016 with the one-line description "Bi- Attraction to two or more genders."; the designer is unknown and the account is a publisher of other people’s designs. [1] A separate grey-heart biromantic proposal had been published two weeks earlier and is a sibling design, not an earlier state of this one.
Key facts
- Designer
- Unknown
- Created
- First publication
- Documented record
- Published 10 May 2016
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the source file, 5000 by 3000 pixels, exactly 5:3. [1]
- Stripes
- 3
- Represented Identity
- biromantic
Also known as
- Biromantic Pride Flag
- Biromantic Flag
- Biromantic
Status Proposed
Archive categories Sexual & Romantic Orientation Pride Flags
Overview
No creator statement has been located. The description defines the term rather than the design. [1]
Pride-Flags published the design on 10 May 2016 under the title "Biromantic", a 5000 by 3000 file with the definition "Bi- Attraction to two or more genders" and no designer credit. It applies the centred-heart treatment the account used across that day's batch to the bisexual flag's three bands. [1][2]
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"; the same account's April design gives the longer "Bi - Attraction to two or more genders, or the same and other genders". [1][3]
Creators
The Creator
Unknown
Designer
The designer of this proposal is not named in any located source. The surviving publication establishes the artifact and its date but not its authorship. [1] If you can identify the designer, the archive would like to hear from you.
Pride-Flags
Publisher and source-rendering account
The DeviantArt archive that published the surviving 5000 by 3000 file on 10 May 2016 with the description "Bi- Attraction to two or more genders." [1] It credits makers where it knows them and names none here.
Bi- Attraction to two or more genders.
Attribution notes
The designer is not identified. Pride-Flags published the surviving file on 10 May 2016, its page displaying 9 May in Pacific time, with a one-line definition and no designer credit: "Bi- Attraction to two or more genders." [1] The account publishes renderings of other people’s designs, so hosting is not authorship. Its statement that gallery designs are free to use for pride-related purposes governs its own rendering and does not resolve the unknown designer’s rights.
Origin
- Digital Origin
- Yes
Digital origin; no verified physical location.
Digital origin on DeviantArt. No physical origin is documented. [1]
Dates & Chronology
- Year Created
- First publication
- Documented record
- Published 10 May 2016; adoption not established
The design circulates in community wikis and flag guides. No formal organizational adoption has been located. [1]
Two biromantic designs were published by this account in 2016 and are archived separately: the grey-heart design of 26 April and this centred-heart design of 10 May. [3][1] Five further biromantic deviations followed later that month, on 16 and 20 May, recorded by the archive as masculine leaning, neutral leaning, feminine/masculine leaning, feminine/neutral leaning and neutral/masculine leaning. They are variants of this centred-heart construction. Their individual source files have not been inspected here, so no measurements or images for them are published. Later separate biromantic designs include a five-stripe flag of 2020 and a heart design by CallieCat030 of 2021.
Lineage
- Direct predecessors
- Bisexual Pride Flag
- Related flags
- Demiromantic Pride Flag, Panromantic Pride Flag
The bisexual flag is the documented parent: the artifact reproduces its three-band 40:20:40 construction directly, lightened on the field and saturated in the heart. [1] The grey-heart proposal published two weeks earlier is a derived sibling through that shared parent; neither design revises the other. CallieCat030’s 2021 heart flag is a later design that the wiki says harks back to both 2016 proposals. The related list is held to the nearest -romantic neighbours rather than every flag sharing the suffix.
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 (Centered Heart, 2016)
Colors & Symbolism
No symbolism was published with the design. The one-line source description defines the term: "Bi- Attraction to two or more genders." [1] The heart-as-romantic-marker reading is a convention of the period’s biromantic proposals and is recorded as an editorial interpretation rather than creator testimony.
| Colour | Hex |
|---|---|
| Pink (field, lightened) | #E55AA2 |
| Lavender (field, lightened) | #A48CBA |
| Blue (field, lightened) | #597DC6 |
| Pink (heart) | #D70170 |
| Purple (heart) | #734F95 |
| Blue (heart) | #0038A7 |
Measured from the 5000 by 3000 source file. [1]
- Centered heart
- The romantic-orientation marker. It is not an opaque overlay: the three bands run through it unbroken, saturated inside the heart and lightened outside it. [2]
The deviation carries a definition of biromantic attraction and no colour meanings. Any reading of the pink, purple and blue bands is inherited from later interpretation of the bisexual flag and is secondary, not something the biromantic source published. [1]
Two palettes, both measured from the source file and neither issued by a creator: the field carries lightened versions of the bisexual colours and the centred heart carries the saturated ones. [1] The source publishes no colour meanings and no symbolism. 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, not a documented creator statement.
Design
- Aspect Ratio
- 3:5 · apparent
- Ratio Notes
- Measured from the source file, 5000 by 3000 pixels, exactly 5:3. [1]
- Orientation
- horizontal
- Stripe Count
- 3
- Layout
- horizontal_stripes
- Stripes (Top → Bottom)
- Pink, Purple, Blue
- Center Symbol
- Centered heart
Three horizontal bands measured at 1201, 602 and 1196 rows in the 3000-row field, which is the bisexual flag’s 40:20:40, with a large heart centred over all three. The field colours are lightened and the heart interior carries the saturated values. [1]
Three bands at 40:20:40 with a single centred heart. The heart is a mask, not an overlay: the bands inside it keep their saturated values while the rest of the field is lightened. [2]
Three horizontal bands of pink, purple and blue in a 40:20:40 division, lightened across the field and saturated inside a large centred heart. [2]
Usage & Adoption
- Online Usage
- DeviantArt, where the design was published [1], Community wikis and flag guides
- Current Status
- Online proposal; documented publication, no established adoption
The design circulates in community wikis and flag guides. No formal organizational adoption has been located. [1]
Image Archive
Source artifact
Archive reconstruction
Discourse & Debates
Common misidentifications
- Two Pride-Flags biromantic designs from 2016 are frequently merged: this centred-heart design of 10 May and the grey-heart design of 26 April, which are separate publications with different palettes and different heart devices. [1][3]
The deviation defines the term it illustrates as "Bi- Attraction to two or more genders." [1] The April design's description gives a longer form: "Bi - Attraction to two or more genders, or the same and other genders." [3]
Footnotes & Citations
Sources and footnotes 4 sources
Image file page
- 1. Biromantic. Published by Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-05-10). Accessed 2026-08-16
The centred-heart publication, 5000 by 3000. Description: "Bi- Attraction to two or more genders." No designer is named.
- 2. Source PNG behind the 10 May 2016 publication, 5000 by 3000. Published by Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-05-10). Accessed 2026-08-16 · Archived version
The downloaded file, measured for this entry: 182,463 bytes, bands 1201/602/1197, saturated #D70170/#734F95/#0038A7 and lightened #E55AA2/#A48CBA/#597DC6. The heart outline in the reconstruction is traced from it.
- 3. Biromantic Pride Flag (1). Published by Pride-Flags. DeviantArt (2016-04-26). Accessed 2026-08-16
The earlier grey-heart design from the same account, archived separately.
Social media
- 4. FAQ. pride-color-schemes. Tumblr. Accessed 2026-08-16
The associated archive's stated policy that work it made itself would be marked as such.
Image Sources
- Rendering
- the centred-heart design published 10 May 2016
- Encycloflaggia reconstruction of the centred-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 10 May 2016 · Credit: Published by Pride-Flags; designer unknown · DeviantArt · verified
- The source file as Pride-Flags published it on 10 May 2016, 5000 by 3000 pixels, exactly 5:3. Every colour value in this entry is measured from it. [1] · Credit: Rendering published by Pride-Flags (DeviantArt); designer of the underlying proposal unknown. · DeviantArtRights The deviation states no formal licence. Pride-Flags says designs in its gallery are free to use for pride-related purposes; that statement covers this rendering only and does not resolve the unknown designer’s rights.
- Encycloflaggia reconstruction drawn from the measured values, with the heart outline traced from the source file. Not the source artifact. · Credit: Encycloflaggia reconstruction. · EncycloflaggiaRights Archive reconstruction. The underlying design’s rights are unresolved.