2015-06-27 19:26 GMT+02:00 Noah Slater <[email protected]>: > c. Image distinctiveness: the rainbow flag is visually distinct. >
Not so distinct from several other former rainbow flags used in South America. In fact the number of colours in the rainbow varies culturally depending on countries, even when it is intended to refer to the LGBT communities. The exact list of colors is not really fixed And their number of bands varying between 6 or 7: in US, it generally has 6 bands. But in France it frequently has 7 bands, adding fuschia/magenta after violet, because traditionally rainbows are described and drawn in France with 7 colors; the exact tints also vary, notably the lightness of blue and green which may be lighter as lime and skyblue or royal blue, violet becoming sometimes dark blue, and the last one magenta/fuschia becoming sometimes rose, the initial red being also frequently darker than in US where it is in fact more orange than red, and where US orange is nearly gold. The presence also of an cyan/aquamarine band between blue and green bands is also common (with a reduced contrast between the yellow and green, using a lighter shade of green), or simply the light cyan/aqua, or sky blue, replaces the darker blue band. In fact as long as it locally unambiguously represents a rainbow, it is accurate (there's no legal authority defining or restricting its definition, this is not a national emblem anywhere, except for the Jewish community in Russia where the rainbox is a large horizontal one with thin bands over a white flag). The dimensions/proportions are also not fixed: flags are just scaled to fit well with other flags or symbols. In many countries and events, the rainbow flag is displayed along with other national or regional flags.
