OWS mixes the colors of the flag = light purple

[lunatica]

Purple also happens to be the colors of both parties mixed together. I think that's incredibly serendipitous so I quickly made up a sign. What do you think? Is it a good start?

[ixion]

1. I'd put your "We are the 99%" on one line

just my personal preference. :hi:

[lunatica]

3. Like this?

[ixion]

5. yep, that's what I was thinking...

what do you think? it's up to you, after all. :)

[lunatica]

9. I tried something different in reply #8

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Yes, I think that is better, come to think of it.

[lunatica]

10. I did something different in reply #8

[In Other News]

35. Righteous!

:-)

[livetohike]

2. It's great

:toast:

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. "Hello. My name is Indigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."

I like it!

[lunatica]

11. I added some color and drop shadow in reply #8

I think it's getting better

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. When I get my donor status back, I'll be using your image as an avatar.

:hi::toast:

[lunatica]

15. You can't use it now?

[Fire Walk With Me]

19. I could remotely but you can't upload one. I've used up my free Photobucket bandwidth on #OWS

pics and I'm currently using my flickr account for new ones. I have some money coming, I'm not asking for help, just right now I can't, but will when I can! :hi:

[lunatica]

20. You can use my avatar when the time comes if you like

other ones lose the words so I had to take out everything except 'we are the 99%' and I had to enlarge that so you could see it.

[Fire Walk With Me]

28. There it is, I like it just fine. Will do!

:hi:

[TheWraith]

6. My first thought is "Ow, my eyes!"

If you want purple, i would suggest going no brighter than #A100EC. Otherwise it's overpowering. Particularly with white lettering, as the human eye looks for contrast. A darker background will make the letters easier reading.

[lunatica]

8. Here I tried using color and drop shadow to define a little more

[polly7]

14. Very nice! nt.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. I think I prefer the single colors/white, just the lavender and white,

Easier on the eyes, faster message delivery, more instant "punch".
On this version, my eyes were looking all over the sign, back and forth.

[Uncle Joe]

13. Purple is the color of royalty as well, which I believe to be a great color to symbolize the people.

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, lunatica.:thumbsup:

[CJCRANE]

16. I like

the one on the right. It looks great with just the plain white lettering.

[bigmonkey]

17. Purple is also the highest frequency visible light.

ROYGBIV (Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet) For that reason it's symbolic in a positive way for some people - higher vibration and all.

[krispos42]

21. How about these?

Background color RGB: 181 29 252

Red RGB: 181 0 0

Blue RGB: 63 78 180

Font: Metro Nouveau (Microsoft Paint)

Size, big: 144
Size, medium: 32
Size, small: 24

[lunatica]

22. those are great, and I love that some say

We are not the 1%.

I wish I could rec your post!

[LynneSin]

23. And tell me what GOP person supports them

nuff said.

[lunatica]

24. We support the 99% whether they do or not.

See, that's the Democratic Party way. We don't make a set of rules for us and then exclude people who disagree with us. When legislation is passed for social services, everyone gets them. Even the teabagerrati.

And there are purple state.

[justiceischeap]

25. My contribution

[lunatica]

27. That's great!

Awesome! I wish they were asking for people to send them artwork. I'd send mine even though yours is totally better than mine! But you never know, they might pick a few different ones.

[RainDog]

29. wonderful. may I share with others? n/t

[justiceischeap]

30. Sure thing. nt

[lunatica]

31. Kick just to get people to see your sign

You should start your own thread with it. It's really inspiring. I hope you do.

[Glimmer of Hope]

32. This is fantastic!

[dixiegrrrrl]

33. wow....that is impressive.

Have you sent it to OWS?
and may I steal it?

[justiceischeap]

34. I have not and yes, you may. :) nt

[MorningGlow]

26. I was inspired too

First new avatar for me in quite a while! :hi:

[cyberhatch]

36. There's a blog about using the color purple for ows

I love the idea of showing support by wearing purple!!

http://owspurple.blogspot.com/

The blog has all the news about the color and what's going on with it.

It was also talked about in the NYC General Assembly on October 13th

Here's a link to the NYC General Assembly transcript
http://nycga.cc/2011/10/13/general-assembly-full-transcript-101311/


Here's the section that talks about purple

Our last announcement – our second to last announcement – is from Chris. Your spirit of unity that I’m observing tonight is truly inspirational. If anybody out there thinks they can kick us out of this park, they’re gonna learn something! The spirit of unity propose that we adopt a color. If we take the colors of the American flag, red, white, blue, mix them together, we get light purple. Because this movement is not anti-American, it is ultra-American! ….we can stop this by all wearing a little purple. My mom can wear purple when she’s buying groceries. If anyone wants one of these armbands, I’d love to give one to you. Thank you.

[Honeycombe8]

37. Who doesn't like purple? One of my fave colors. It looks more violet on my pc. I like the 2nd

I like the 2nd sign better...."we are the 99%" on one line.