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Peace Sign Flag Variants (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)

Peace flags

Last modified: 2025-03-29 by randy young
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[Peace Sign flag (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament)]
image by Steve Kramer, 29 May 1996
See also:

Blue variants

The flag appears in a variety of shades, from light blue to turqoise to teal.
Tomislav Todorović, 10 January 2016

Light blue variants

[Light blue peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 10 January 2016

Photograph found online of black and white symbol on light blue field. Symbolism and use unknown.
David B. Lawrence, 3 August 2009

An example which is undisputedly light blue was photographed in Jerome, Arizona, on 23 June 2010. The photo of another flag with the same description can be found here, and the flag seen in Santa Cruz, California, on 3 March 2012 also seems to match the description, as well as the one from Minneapolis, Minnesota, which was photographed on 11 August 2007.

[Turquoise peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 10 January 2016

Even the flags whose field can be described like light blue sometimes display color which may incline toward turquoise. Such was the case with the flag seen in London, UK, on 5 August 2009, the one from San Francisco, California, photographed on 20 March 2010, or the one photographed on the same day in Washington, DC, while there are also those whose color is not easy to classify, as was the case in Miami, Florida, on 17 November 2008. On some flags, the color should better be classified as turquoise, such as the one from San Francisco, California, photographed on 18 March 2007, the one from Washington, DC, seen on 15 September 2007, or the one photographed in the same city on 6 October 2011, as well as the flag from Le Havre, France, photographed on 21 May 2011. When darker, the color may look more like teal, like the example from Calgary, Alberta, which is seen on 25 March 2012, or the one photographed from Denver, Colorado, on 19 July 2014. But even in those cases, it is not always easy to describe the color, for it may incline a bit towards the blue. Such was the case with the flag from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which was seen on 3 March 2007, as well as the one from Lawrence, Kansas, which was seen on 10 June 2009. The flag was probably originally meant to display the sky blue color, but was changed by age and weather on some flags, while others might have been modelled after those aged items and created with turquoise or teal color.
Tomislav Todorović, 10 January 2016

Dark blue variant

[Dark blue peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 24 December 2014

The variant with a white symbol on a blue field was photographed as early as 3 July 1970 at the Second Atlanta Pop Festival. More recent examples of its use are from Mendocino, California, dated 24 November 2006 and 25 October 2007.
Tomislav Todorović, 24 December 2014

Green variant

[Green peace sign variant]
image by Randy Young, 21 December 2014; modified by Tomislav Todorović, 4 January 2015

Photograph found online of black and white symbol on dark green field. Symbolism and use unknown.
David B. Lawrence, 3 August 2009

The flag with the dark green field is currently offered for sale at iOffer. Its photo reveals that the color shade is actually FOTW color V++ or very close and the ratio is 3:5, just as stated at the page.
Tomislav Todorović, 4 January 2015

Pink variant

[Pink nuclear disarmament variant]
image by António Martins, 5 August 2007; modified by Tomislav Todorović, 4 January 2015

Yet another variant of the nuclear disarmament symbol we cover at FOTW.

This one is black on pink, regular "peace" symbol, centered on 2:3 flag. I got it from a brochure from the US NGO Mothers for Peace, where it shows a photo of an actual flag. Since, however, the said brochure is printed in duotone black and pink on white paper, this could be a differently-colored peace symbol flag. It is anyway divulged in these colors by Mothers for Peace.

Any other isntance of this coloring, or should we consider this a local US political flag, instead of a design in worldwide use?
António Martins, 5 August 2007

I think the image is colored pink, via graphic manipulation, merely to match the overall pink-colored theme of the poster.
Ned Smith, 22 August 2007

I believe this has to do with Code Pink, a feminist anti-war (anti-Iraq war, mostly) group founded a few years ago. I don't think they operate outside the US.
Eugene Ipavec, 22 August 2007

Maybe we'll see this emerge as a feminist-pacifist flag? Less likely flag globalizations have occured in the past, notably the "pace" flag.

I was not under the impression that the flag photo shows an originally pink flag, but rather a duotone colored design. Even so, that is the design that is made public in the leaflet and possibly in other media, and that's what I wanted to represent.
António Martins, 22 August 2007

This flag is also for sale online.
Randy Young, 3 November 2014

The only photo currently available at eBay reveals that the field is in deep pink. I modified Ant nio's original image.
Tomislav Todorović, 24 December 2014

The photo of the flag with the pink field, which is offered for sale at eBay, reveals that the ratio is 3:5, just as stated at the page.
Tomislav Todorović, 4 January 2015

The flag was photographed in Washington, DC, in early 2019 (photo published on 5 April 2019): https://unsplash.com/photos/-jqmcOHAQZw.
Tomislav Todorović, 7 January 2021

Purple variant

[Purple peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 21 May 2017

Variant with black and white peace sign on purple field is offered for sale by several online shops, such as here, here, and here.
Tomislav Todorović, 21 May 2017

Rainbow variant

[Rainbow peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 16 January 2016

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple stripes (Rainbow peace flag) with white peace sign and the word "PEACE" in white letters on orange stripe. Symbolism, use, and significance unknown.
Randy Young, 21 December 2014

This flag is used in the USA and Canada primarily as the sexual orientation flag, but sometimes also as a pacifist symbol - an evolution similar to the one which the Italian rainbow flag underwent in the USA, but in the opposite direction. As a pacifist symbol, the flag was used, together with several other pacifist flags, by the members of the Martha's Vineyard Peace Council in 2008, during the July 4th parade in the town of Oak Bluffs on Martha's Vineyard island.
Tomislav Todorović, 28 January 2016

[Rainbow peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 17 January 2016

Rainbow flag - violet at the top - charged with a large peace sign in white, fimbriated black, was hoisted in Berkeley, California, in May 2014.
Tomislav Todorović, 17 January 2016

[Rainbow peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 17 January 2016

The flag which adds the peace sign and word PEACE to the pattern of an early peace flag from Italy was seen in Boston, Massachusetts, on 9 June 2007, in Rostock, Germany, on 11 September 2007, and at a peace rally in the USA, exact place not specified, on 30 March 2010. The flag was also hoisted in Pisa, Italy, in early 2010.

The color pattern is: white, dark blue, medium blue, light blue, green, yellow, orange, red; word "PEACE" is inscribed in white over dark and medium blue stripes, larger part over medium blue; white peace sign is placed over light blue, green, yellow and orange, in center of the area comprising these four stripes. The shades of medium and light blue are actually rather close to each other in terms of luminosity, so that it is sometimes not easy to distinguish between them.
Tomislav Todorović, 17 January 2016

Rainbow swirl variant

[Peace sign on swirled rainbow field]
image standardized by Randy Young, 26 June 2016

My mate and I spotted this flying at a scout camp/music festival that we were at over the weekend. (Click here for link to Facebook post.)
Kevin Siondaile, 26 June 2016

Some photos of the flag in use: San Francisco, California, on 20 March 2004; Woodford, Queensland, Australia, at Woodford Folk Festival, on 29 December 2006; Los Angeles, California, on 14 March 2008; and Baltimore, Maryland, on 25 May 2008.
Tomislav Todorović, 26 June 2016

Rastafarian variants

[Rastafarian peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 24 December 2014

[Rastafarian peace sign variant with black border]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 2 January 2015

A variant with the field in Rastafarian colors was photographed in Los Angeles, California, on 16 October 2011 and in Santa Cruz, California, on 3 March 2012. Another version of this variant, with the peace sign over the Rastafarian tricolor, no white areas within the sign and black border all around, was photographed in Los Angeles, California, on 15 October 2011, during the Occupy Los Angeles protests.
Tomislav Todorović, 24 December 2014 & 2 January 2015

See also:

Red variant

[Red and gold peace sign variant]
image provided by Tomislav Todorović, 9 January 2016

Variant with red field and peace sign in gold color can be seen here. The photo was taken during the East China Sea voyage made by a Greenpeace team in October and November 2015 on the ship Rainbow Warrior. It makes part of the photo album posted here.
Tomislav Todorović, 9 January 2016

I have a sneaking suspicion that the colors of the flag were deliberately chosen to mimic the colors of the Chinese flag, since the Greenpeace mission took place in the East China Sea. If so, I wonder if there have been other instances of the Peace Sign flag being displayed in colors from a specific national flag in order to send a message to that country?
Randy Young, 9 January 2016

This is an interesting idea and requires more exploring, both about this particular flag and the others which might exist. Until more info is revealed, nothing could be said for sure, though.
Tomislav Todorović, 10 January 2016

Striped variant

[Striped peace sign variant]
image provided by David B. Lawrence, 3 August 2009

Yellow canton with globe as background for dark blue peace sign. Field composed of stripes of purple, pink, orange, brown, black, dark blue, medium blue, light blue, dark green, light green, yellow, orange, and red. Actual use of design unknown.
Randy Young, 21 December 2014

White field variant

[White field peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 2 June 2015

Photo of the flag with dark red peace sign on white field is shown at a Belgian news portal.

The text, which announced a pacifist action in Belgium - hoisting of peace flags throughout the country from 21 September to 7 October 2009 - does not reveal the origin of the photo, so it cannot be decided whether the displayed flag was used at that time, nor anything else about it. The colors set might have been borrowed from the International Banner of Peace (Roerich Movement flag), although nothing can be said about it with certainty.
Tomislav Todorović, 2 June 2015

[White field peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 26 March 2025

White flag with black peace sign is also sometimes used. Several online photos exist, created during the 2000s and the 2010s, although other circumstances of their creation are mostly unknown. [1-3] The same design has also been used as a demonstration poster. [4]
Tomislav Todorović, 26 March 2025
Sources:
[1] Flickr - Photo of the flag, taken on 16 October 2009: https://www.flickr.com/photos/vertebrate/4061066387/
[2] Flickr - Photo of the flag, taken in Nicaragua on 21 January 2011: https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrodriguezs/5373662309/
[3] Flickr - Photo of the flag, taken on 17 March 2013: https://www.flickr.com/photos/taked/8596090852/
[4] Flickr - Photo of the demonstration poster resembling a flag, taken (possibly) in Latin America, on 11 June 2012: https://www.flickr.com/photos/abyur/7177496975/

Yellow field variants

[Yellow field peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 2 July 2016

Variant with the red peace sign on yellow field was photographed in San Francisco, California, on 20 March 2004. The photographer actually wanted to record the flag with the peace sign on the rainbow swirl field, which occupies most of the photo, but still he did also catch the yellow flag with the red sign which was flown farther behind and is visible just beneath the main photographed flag.
Tomislav Todorović, 2 July 2016

[Yellow field peace sign variant]
image by Tomislav Todorović, 19 May 2017

Another variant, with the peace sign in black and white, is offered for sale by various sellers, such as here, here, here, and here.
Tomislav Todorović, 19 May 2017

The flag was used in Boston, Massachusetts, at the Women's March for America, which took place on 21 January 2017 (image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Boston_2017_Women%27s_MarchIMG_0136_(31699771253).jpg).
Tomislav Todorović, 23 April 2022

 

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