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Vexillology encompasses the study of flags from their grandest moments—leading the troops in victorious battle, or raised high on an independence day—to the most picayune of details, such as the proper Pantone Matching System standard for a flag’s colors. Sometimes it is the tiny details of vexillology that can be quite revealing—if patterns are found in them. This paper takes as its starting point a survey of flag proportions. While the independent states of the world assign to their flags many different ratios of height to width, flag proportions are not randomly distributed. Instead, the proportions of the flags of colonizing countries exert a powerful influence on post-colonial flags, even when those flags of independence bear no other graphic resemblance to their predecessors.

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