Pride Palette: Celebrating the rainbow

Every color tells a story. This Pride, we're asking the DeviantArt community to pick up their palettes and paint theirs. Whether you're celebrating yourself, someone you love, or the community that holds you. We want to see all of it.

Dazzle

Create art inspired by your pride, either using colors from the one of the color palettes provided below or highlight a single dominant color that calls to you.

Submit a character study, a landscape, a doodle with your chosen color or colors using the tag #PridePalette, and your work could be featured in our Wrap-Up Gallery and Feature. Oh, you’ll also earn a Pride 2026 badge if you submit before June 30th at 11:59 PM PST!

Get acquainted with the colors of Pride

Not sure where to start? Learn a little about some of the flags that currently color Pride. But this is just a raindrop compared to all the Pride flags out there. Find more and what they mean!

🏳️‍🌈 Rainbow Pride
The original symbol of LGBTQ+ pride and solidarity, redesigned by activist Gilbert Baker in 1978. Each color represents a different aspect of life and community.

🌈🖤🤎💙💗🤍 Progress Pride
The updated flag by Daniel Quasar adds a chevron of black, brown, light blue, pink, and white to center BIPOC and trans communities alongside LGBTQ+ solidarity.

🏳️‍⚧️ Transgender
Light blue, pink, and white stripes representing trans men, trans women, and those who are non-binary or transitioning.

💗💜💙 Bisexual
Pink, lavender, and blue represent attraction to other genders and their possible overlap.

💛🤍💜🖤Non-Binary
Yellow, white, purple, and black represent gender outside the binary, including all genders, mixed genders, and the absence of gender.

🖤🩶🤍💜Asexual
Black, grey, white, and purple represent the spectrum of asexuality, from no attraction to partial.

🧡🤍🩷Lesbian
Shades of orange, white, and pink represent community, gender nonconformity, and love between women.

🩷💛💙Pansexual
Pink, yellow, and blue represent attraction regardless of gender.

💚🌿🤍🩶🖤Aromantic
Green, light green, white, grey, and black represent the spectrum of romantic attraction or its absence.

🪻🤍💚Genderqueer
Lavender, white, and green represent androgyny, all genders, and those outside the binary.

🩷🤍💜🖤💙Genderfluid
Pink, white, purple, black, and blue represent femininity, all genders, a combination of both, the absence of gender, and masculinity.

💛💜Intersex
Yellow and purple specifically avoid colors associated with the gender binary and represent those born with intersex traits.

🖤🩶🤍💚Agender
Black, grey, white, and green represent the absence of gender.

🖤🩶🤍💜Demisexual
Black, grey, white, and purple represent sexual attraction only after forming a close emotional bond.

Customize your space

Show your Pride on your profile! Install the Pride 2026 custom skin to deck out your DeviantArt page for the month.

How to install:

1. Go to your Profile Settings

2. Select Customize Profile

3. Choose the Pride 2026 skin from the seasonal options
   
   

How do you show your Pride? 

• Is there an existing work of art in your favourites that includes the palette of your flag? Share it!

• Whether or not they're within the Pride Palette, what colors do you reach for when you want to feel most like yourself? What do they mean to you?

• Is there a piece of art that made you feel seen? What was it about that piece? Link it below!