A colorful anti-fascist sticker featuring a cute fantasy character framed by Polysexual Pride-inspired pink, green and blue colors. This edition combines soft character art with the direct message “Fascism’s Not Cute.”

Sticker details

• One sticker featuring original Cerebroscope Studio artwork
• Synthetic PP with a glossy protective laminate
• Water-resistant
• Printed, laminated and contour-cut in Germany

Available sizes

• medium sticker 4,5cm H/3,5cm B
• mini sticker 3,6cm H/2,5cm B

For decorating notebooks, journals, laptops and other smooth surfaces.

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From the Cerebroscope archive

Cerebroscope Archive — 018-P

Primary question: How much does recognition depend on the relationship between colors, rather than the colors individually?

Records puts the Poly edition next to the Pansexual one.

Records: These two are going to confuse people.

Z. Omb: Possibly.

Records: Pink. Blue. Pride flag.

Z. Omb: And one contains green while the other contains yellow.

Records: Exactly.

Omb looks between them.

Z. Omb: Then the distinction is unusually useful.

The Pansexual and Polysexual palettes share enough visual territory that a viewer who only remembers “pink and blue Pride flag” may confuse them.

The distinguishing color carries disproportionate information.

Records

So green is doing a lot of work here.

Z. Omb

Potentially more than its proportional area suggests.

Records

Tiny stripe. Huge responsibility.

Z. Omb

Informally, yes.

Omb creates several simplified test patterns:

pink + green + blue

pink + yellow + blue

pink + blue

green + blue

pink + green

Records

You're removing colors again.

Z. Omb

This time the question is different.

Records

How?

Z. Omb

Previously we asked when one symbol stops being recognizable.

Here we can ask when two similar symbols become confusable.

Records pauses.

Records

Okay, that's actually better.

The central illustration and slogan remain unchanged.

Only the surrounding palette shifts.

That means the edition can function almost like an identification test.

If viewers correctly distinguish Pansexual from Polysexual when the same artwork is used for both, the color system is carrying enough information on its own.

Records

And if they can't?

Z. Omb

Then we identify which features are insufficiently distinctive.

Records

No judgment?

Z. Omb

Why would there be judgment?

Symbol recognition is learned.

Current record

Edition: Polysexual
Identity cue: Pink, green and blue
Closest related edition in this collection: Pansexual
Primary differentiating color: Green versus yellow
Central artwork changed: No
Main slogan changed: No
Potential cross-flag confusion: Yes
Artwork text: `FASHISM’S NOT CUTE`
Catalogue text: `Fascism’s Not Cute`

Records adds:

GREEN IS IMPORTANT

Omb adds:

IN THIS SPECIFIC COMPARISON.