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<h1>California Gothic</h1>
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    California Gothic is a typeface based on the glyphs found on the California flag.  The typeface is a bold condensed sans-serif, reminiscent of classic gothic or grotesque style typefaces. The font is all-caps, and covers all the Unicode Basic Latin ranges, general punctuation, and many other characters.
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    More information and examples can be found at <a href="https://www.mattlag.com/californiagothic">mattlag.com/californiagothic</a>
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<h2>Background</h2>
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    In 1953, California standardized the state flag in law.  Section 420 of the Government Code includes this low resolution sketch of the flag, and says:
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    <i>The general design and the details of the Bear Flag, excluding colors, shall correspond substantially with the following representation:</i>
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<p>
    No mention of a specific typeface to use for the iconic CALIFORNIA REPUBLIC text along the bottom of the flag.  
    Not even a family... or even serif / sans-serif.  Just "correspond substantially".
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<p>
    This project aims to reverse-engineer a typeface based on high-resolution scans of the letter forms from the original 1953 law.
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<h2>Info</h2>
Download the font files from <a href="https://www.mattlag.com/californiagothic">mattlag.com/californiagothic</a>.
v2.2 is a complete re-drawing of all glyphs, and includes 446 characters from the following ranges:
<h3>Full character ranges</h3>
<ul>
    <li>Basic Latin (U+0020 - U+007E)</li>
    <li>Latin Supplement (U+00A0 - U+00FF)</li>
    <li>Latin Extended-A (U+0100 - U+017F)</li>
    <li>General Punctuation (U+2000 - U+206F)</li>
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<h3>Partial character ranges</h3>
<ul>
    <li>Spacing Modifier Letters (U+02B0 - U+02FF)</li>
    <li>Combining Diacritical Marks (U+0300 - U+036F)</li>
    <li>Superscripts and Subscripts (U+2070 - U+209F)</li>
    <li>Currency Symbols (U+20A0 - U+20CF)</li>
    <li>Letterlike Symbols (U+2100 - U+214F)</li>
    <li>Arrows (U+2190 - U+21FF)</li>
    <li>Mathematical Operators (U+2200 - U+22FF)</li>
    <li>Arabic Presentation Forms-B (U+FE70 - U+FEFF)</li>
    <li>Specials (U+FFF0 - U+FFFF)</li>
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<h2>Contact</h2>
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    I'd be happy to answer any questions at <a href="mailto:matt@mattlag.com">matt@mattlag.com</a>.
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