Rainbow conlang flag contest and conlang flag & pin orders
The Language Creation Society (LCS) is a non-profit dedicated to conlanging and conlang communities.

Before the LCS existed, the Conlang Flag was designed by Christian Thalmann, Jan van Steenbergen, Leland Paul, David J. Peterson and Adrian Morgan and released into the public domain. It represents the Tower of Babel (translating Genesis 11:1-9 has been a tradition for conlangers) against a rising sun. The high quality conlang flag images the LCS hosts were made for us by Paul Schleitwiler and Rebecca Bettencourt, and are also public domain.

Conlang flag orders 

We recently ran out of standard conlang flags and will need to order another print run. To do so, we need to know how many people want to buy one. Printing just 1 flag costs about $150, whereas a print run of a few dozen can cost more like $20 or $15 each (plus shipping etc). We can and do keep stock on hand long term — it's fine if we only sell them over the course of several years — but we're a non-profit run entirely by volunteers, so there are pragmatic limits.

So please let us know if you're interested in ordering one.

Rainbow conlang flag contest

The LCS is running a contest to create a flag to represent not just conlanging, but also the diversity of the conlanging community.

What exactly that means, and what such a design might look like, is entirely up to you. It can be based on the standard conlang flag, or a totally different design, or anything in-between. It can be queer focused, or for BIPOC, or represent the Gnoli Triangle, or consider an entirely different aspect of diversity. It can be for a specific subset of the community, or for our common unity. We welcome and encourage your creativity.

The only requirements are compatibility with technical requirements (so we can order physical versions), and public licensing under Creative Commons CC0 (public domain) or CC BY (attribution only).

Anyone worldwide is welcome to enter.

Submissions we receive will be added to this form on a rolling basis, to inspire others.

Deadline for submissions: March 31, 2025 (International Transgender Day of Visibility)
Public vote: April–May 2025
Contest winner(s) to be announced: June 28, 2025 (International LGBT Pride Day)

We will put submissions up to a public vote. However, the LCS Board will make the final decision. We will take into account how many people would actually order a flag of a given design, and what design(s) would be adopted by the broadest range of the entire conlang community. We expect to have only one winner, but we may have multiple.

We intend to award the authors of the winning submission(s) with a physical flag and/or lapel pin of their design. However, we can't really promise this in advance, because whether we can make a cost effective production run really depends on how many people would buy one (which we don't yet know) and the number of authors that is (we can't really afford to give out e.g. 100 free flags if it's a big collaboration). We'll figure something out. If a print run isn't viable, we'll come up with something else. Suggestions are welcome.

All questions marked "private" will only be shared LCS internally.
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Physical flags & pins order
We will likely be making another bulk order soon of the standard conlang flag.

Flag printing and pin production both have a very high economy of scale — almost all of the cost of the screen printing is upfront, not per item — so if we can confidently buy a larger print run, they'll all be individually cheaper. Cost effective print run minimums are on the order of 30 flags or 100 pins. We have plenty of conlang flag pins in stock (for new members), but we're out of actual flags.

We have not yet decided whether we will ordering production of rainbow conlang flags or pins. This depends on the amount of interest we get. If you would like us to do it, please tell us using this form that you would buy them, and get others to do so also.

It'll take a couple months at least, and we may hold this until the results of the rainbow flag contest, so please be patient.
We sell the conlang flag as a full size, all-weather flag: 3'×5′ knitted polyester, single side screenprint (1 ply), two sturdy hanging loops (called grommets) on the left side.
We also have ⅝"×1" conlang flag enamel pins. These are not available for sale, but they are free with LCS membership. (Join!)
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The next section is for contest submissions. If you're not making one, just skip to the bottom and click "submit".
Rainbow conlang flag contest submissions
Submitters can be individuals or groups. Each submitter can submit any number of distinct designs, within reason — please only give us final drafts, but if you have multiple distinct designs you like, please do share them.

All submissions must include a full list of the authors (including everyone who contributed to any iteration the submission built from, other than the standard conlang flag) and an irrevocable public license from the options below on behalf of all of those authors. Wallet names are not required; please list whatever you are known by in the conlang community. In the private description however, you must give us contact info for all authors (i.e. anyone whose copyright may be involved directly or as a derivative work), so that we can directly contact them to verify their consent, and in case we award a prize.

A description, explanation of design, or other statement is strongly encouraged but not required. However, a statement clearly crediting anyone who contributed and who wants to be publicly credited, using whatever name and/or handle they want, is required. 

Required primary file for each design:
  1. vector format — Adobe Illustrator, EPS, or SVG only
  2. dimensions: 5×3
Optional but appreciated: Pantone colors

Optional but appreciated: 1000×600 px PNG

Optional but appreciated design variants: 
  1. 1×1 (square)
  2. circle
  3. 16×9 (banner)
  4. 128x128 px, < 256KB PNG or GIF (emoji)
  5. 128x128 px, < 256KB animated GIF (animated emoji)
The standard conlang flag colors are: 
  • Pantone process black (#000000) black ziggurat and ground
  • Pantone 254vu (#91008C) purple sky
  • Pantone 123cvu (#FFB700) yellow sun & inter-ziggurat spaces
You are not required to use the standard colors, but please indicate in notes if you use a color close to black, yellow, or purple which is different than the standard ones.

Optional but appreciated: an enamel lapel pin design. For the purposes of the contest, if you want to include this, just make a mock-up.

The actual requirements are only relevant for the winner, but FYI, they're:
  1. same vector formats, but line art only, for just the pin
  2. a separate image with markup of the fill colors, plating/finish, fill or raise, dividing lines, etc
  3. dimensions: 8×5
Public: title of each design
Please include a short title for each design, so we can use it in voting and referring to the design. 

If you're submitting more than one design, please use the same titles in the file uploads, authors list, descriptions, etc below.
Public: Upload your submission(s)

You must be signed in with a Google account to upload files. Sorry, that's Google's restriction. If you don't have a Google account, please ask someone who does to submit this for you. 

Please create one folder for each design, using the title of the design, and put all files for that design in that folder. All files uploaded will immediately be public.
Public: full description(s) and credits
If you're submitting multiple designs, please give a separate description for each. 

Include everything you want to be listed when we hold a vote, or (if you win) when we put it on the LCS website, e.g. description, explanation of design, credits, etc.

Please include any handles, websites, etc you want linked.

If the design took place somewhere public, like a Discord server or email list or bulletin board, please consider including a direct link to that (including, for Discord, a non expiring server invite). This is optional but helps people see how it got made and boost your community.
Private: authors info, notes, and anything else LCS should know
Please list everyone who contributed to the designs (if it's different for different designs, please indicate who was on what), and direct contact info for each (e.g. email, Discord handle, or the like). 
Public: Irrevocable license agreement & terms
By making this submission, you hereby affirm and agree, both yourself and on behalf of all Authors, that: 
  1. you have accurately listed above all authors who contributed in any way to the submissions made (Authors)
  2. you are acting with the explicit written permission of all Authors
  3. the submission is made freely and voluntarily, without any obligation of compensation or other action in return
  4. the LCS shall have sole discretion of what (if any) submission(s) to designate as winning this contest; to decide whether and how to use the submissions (e.g. for publication, creation of physical flags, creation of physical pins, etc); to decide what (if any) award(s) to give and to whom; and everything else related to this contest
  5. all Authors grant the LCS blanket permission to use everything submitted (including the descriptions, files, etc) in any way it wants in connection with this contest, any creation of physical flags, pins, etc (provided that individual responses to the questions marked "private" will be kept under LCS NDA, and credit will be publicly given to the Authors)
  6. all Authors irrevocably commit all submitted files and titles to the following public license:
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Conlangers of Color (CoC) flag
Conlangers of Color (CoC) flag
The Conlangers of Color Flag is an edited version of the Conlangers Flag. the purple background is darker, and the Tower of Babel in the center has stripes of light brown, dark brown, and black, instead of being fully black.

Sole work of Grey, owner of the Conlangers of Color Discord.

Licensed under CC0.
The People Are One
The People Are One
Diversity as a wreath clearing clouds over the tower of babel, protecting us from adversity and widening our horizons.

While the basic idea behind the design is rather direct and pictographic, it also contains a number of symbolic elements which might not be immediately apparent.

The wreath itself, by its circularity, stands for harmony and unity through the intertwining of the repeated shapes. It is also intended to be reminiscent of a flower, or a chain of individual flowers, which figuratively stand for the growth and beauty that emerge from the seeds of diversity.

The repeated shapes of the wreath also contain various symbols:

1) The negative space on the inside is shaped like a human face in profile (forehead, nose, lips).
2) The yellow five-tipped cutout in each shape can either be seen as sound emanating from the lips, standing for spoken language, or as a stylised hand, to stand for signed languages.
3) The shape as a whole can be seen as a quill (nib on the counter-clockwise side), to stand for written language.
4) The shapes touching each-other stands for tactile languages.
5) The yellow cutout, if seen as a stylised hand, is also intended to be reminiscent of hand-prints as found from earliest prehistoric human art up to the present day across the world, thus standing for the artistic nature of conlanging, and the complex intertwining between human art and language across time and space on Earth.

The colours of the wreath, aside from standing for diversity itself, are inspired by the diversity of nature and biomes in which humans live: snow, stone, water, sand, grass, forests, wood, etc…

The only exception is the purple at the top, which is reused from the background of the original Conlang Flag, as a direct reference; but in the context of the design combines with the sand and blue colours to perceptually create a triangle of red, yellow and blue – the three primaries from which all other colours can be mixed, thus presenting the basic elements from which diversity can be produced.

The wreath is made of six shapes to match the six levels of the tower (sans ground), which in combination with their different colours, reveals the diversity of the community which already existed at the time of the original Conlang Flag, but was hidden under monochrome black – thus symbolising how diversity is not just a “tack-on”, but an inherent feature of the community as it already was, and is simply being openly acknowledged and elevated.

The stars on the left symbolise the more dispersed diversity of conlanging: of a myriad of communities and individuals that might not be in direct contact or even aware of each-other, but nonetheless exist – thus, each star implicitly has its own little planet with its own little tower, and its own diversity.

The clouds are asymmetric and shaped to show clear motion in and out of the flag, in contrast with the symmetry and harmonious circularity of the wreath, as a symbol for the transient and unstable nature of discrimination and adversity in the face of unity and equity.

The colour of the sky and clouds was changed to a bluer hue than the original Conlang Flag, both to be more harmonious with the new colours at the centre, but also to give the flag a more unique signature: one could instantly differentiate it from the original simply from this colour.

The flag is also designed to be easily spun off into more specific variants simply by changing the colours of the wreath, e.g. one could create an LGBTQ+ Pride version by using the colours of the Rainbow Flag.

The title of the flag, at least as given for the purpose of this contest, is a snippet from the Genesis 11.6 (KJ21) which seemed particularly appropriate:

“And the Lord said, ‘Behold, the people are one and they have all one language, and this they begin to do; and now nothing will be withheld from them which they have imagined to do.’”

(With the “one language” being the craft of conlanging, of course.)

Design by: Nel Fie

Licensed under CC0.
The People Are One - rainbow variant
The People Are One - rainbow variant
A rainbow variant of the “The People are One” design, submitted by request. This variant illustrates how the colours of the wreath can easily be adapted for a range of other identifiable colour patterns, such as those as used by pride flags.

Thus, this variant would stand specifically for LGBTQ+ diversity among conlangers.

For any other notes on the flag's design, see the original “The People are One” design.

Design by: Nel Fie

Licensed under CC0.
The People are One - Transgender Pride variant
The People are One - Transgender Pride variant
A transgender pride variant of the “The People are One” design, submitted by request. This variant illustrates how the colours of the wreath can easily be adapted to a range of other identifiable colour patterns, such as those used in pride flags.

Thus, this variant would stand specifically for transgender pride among conlangers.

For any other notes on the flag's design, see the original “The People are One” design.

Design by: Nel Fie

Licensed under CC0.
Unity Symmetry
Unity Symmetry
A straightforward-as-possible design that aims to mash up the original Conlang Flag with the Intersex Inclusive Progress Pride Flag and the Ann Magill Disability Pride Flag. Both groups of elements are presented as equal yet interlocking pieces, and distributed to create a roughly symmetrical composition, while balancing the widely different styles (i.e. curves and fine detail with minimalistic, straight lines).

The design does not contain any further symbolism than that. The design is intended to be as direct and self-evident as possible: anyone who knows the original elements will know what this flag is about.

Design by: Nel Fie

Licensed under CC0.
Pyramidion Prism
Pyramidion Prism
A more restrained counter-design to Unity Symmetry, which attempts, instead, to only use the visual language of both the original Conlang Flag and Pride Flags, without copying them directly.

As a result, the colours in this design do not stand for any particular group, but rather for the concept of diversity in general, and the abstraction through which diversity is communicated in our contemporary visual language.
This is intended as standing for a commitment to embrace diversity in all its forms – including groups and causes that might not yet be in our consciousness, or have a broadly adopted symbol of their own which could be referenced.

The colour white has a special meaning in this design, chosen for the property of white light to be freely assembled from the harmonious combination of all colours of light, and inversely be divided back into all these colours. In context, this is intended to symbolise how an ideally diverse community can interchangeably act as a harmonious unit without recognisable divisions; yet can also freely allow for the independent action and unmitigated self-identification of any of its constituent groups.

This symbolism is used in three parts of the design:
1) The white orb of light at the top from which the surrounding coloured arcs can either be seen as emanating from, or converging towards.
2) For the pyramidion or prism adorning the top of the black ziggurat (in reference to the original Conlang Flag), which both completes the “imperfect” shape of the ziggurat by providing a summit where all the sides and edges intersect – meeting in unison to create a perfect whole – and as an implied prism of glass permitting the free transformation of light, from pure white to its constituent colours and back again.
3) As rays of reflected light on the levels (or spiraling ramp) of the ziggurat, symbolically preserving and illuminating the free movement of all between all levels. The rays extend beyond the ziggurat to symbolise how diversity in the conlang community is inevitably connected and in continuity with diversity outside of it.

Design by: Nel Fie

Licensed under CC0.
Mirage Multiplicity
Mirage Multiplicity
A minimalistic design that creates a rainbow pattern by repeating and overlapping a simplified version of the original Conlang Flag's ziggurat and sun in different colours.

Not much to say in terms of symbolism. The differently coloured repetitions would obviously stand for different “hues” of diversity in the conlanging community (in a broad sense) as they link, overlap and intersect with each other fluidly. But aside from that, the main goal was to create a simple but distinct and visually pleasing design.

Design by: Nel Fie

Licensed under CC0.
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