Designer: Cameron Whimsy
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November 2014 (third version)
The green stripes are the complementary color of red (the color of romance) - green represents aromanticism as the conceptual "other side" of romance.
The flag shown above is the third aromantic flag. Both of the earlier ones were replaced for stated reasons, so it is worth knowing what they were.
Green, yellow, orange and black (c. 2011), retired
Four stripes, credited to the National Coalition for Aromantic Visibility. Green stood for aromanticism, yellow for romantic friendship, orange for the ground between romance and aromanticism, and black for alloromantic people. It was dropped for several reasons at once: the wider aromantic community had never been asked about it, its stripe meanings left out parts of the aro spectrum, one stripe was given over to alloromantic people, and the palette was close enough to the Rastafarian and Jamaican flags to be read as something else entirely.
Five stripes with yellow (Cameron Whimsy, February 2014), retired
Dark green, light green, yellow, grey and black. Whimsy made it in response to the criticism of the first flag, and revised it again nine months later.
Five stripes with white (Cameron Whimsy, November 2014), current
The yellow stripe became white. Two reasons for that change are in circulation and the sources do not agree on which is right: one is that the yellow was hard on the eyes for some people, the other is that it stopped the flag looking like the Jamaican flag. Whimsy also said afterwards that the stripe meanings were never meant to be fixed, which is part of why published readings of the grey and black stripes still differ from one another.
