Can someone let me in on the secret?
How does Argent Towers achieve this affect in his sig?
I figure it’s a symbol in some font, but I don’t know what.
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<font color="DarkRed">▀▀</font><font color="DarkOrange">▀▀</font>
The blocks are made from two ASCII character 9600s (they render even in the code tags, but are written “ampersand hash 9600 semicolon”). Rinse and repeat.
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▀ Gotcha thanks.
Wow, that looks totally gay. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that.) 
(The rainbow flag or rainbow rectangles like that are a symbol of “gay” or “gay friendly” people or businesses - around here, at least.)
Some people use other graphics in their sigs.
Look around the end of the various fonts for pictures.
E.g., try [******font=symbol]§©ª¨[/font]
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Here it’s most commonly seen on “PACE” (Italian for “peace” - anti Iraq war) flags. That said, of late a lot of gay pub signs have the rainbow too.
The gay flag only has six colors though. You’d have to drop the indigo to be totally gay. 
jjimm’s is just a rainbow.
Just thought this would be the appropriate thread to figure out how this signature thing works…
And this thread just reminds me of why I have sigs turned off. Thanks guys 
olivesmarch4th, your sig would make The Grapist proud.
Why do British peaceniks protest in Italian?
I’ve no idea. Perhaps they’re Italians abroad - the PACE flag is immensely popular in Italy - or maybe they’ve just caught on over here.
We have PACE flags here, too.
Isn’t PACE Latin?
It is, as well being Italian - as you know, Latin came from Italy, and many Latin words have survived into modern Italian.
There’s a rainbow PACE flag in the window of a building near where I work. I kinda always thought it was something having to do with a gay rights organization at the nearby Pace University. :smack:
It’s a Latin root, but I don’t think that it’s the complete word in any case. The two most commonly-encountered forms, the nominative and accusative, are “pax” and “pacem”, respectively.
Actually, the original flag as designed by Gil Baker had 8 stripes; it included hot pink and turquoise in the design. When it began to be mass produced, it was dropped to the 6 color version that is common today.