Flag of Canada

The National Flag of Canada, popularly known as the Maple Leaf Flag (French: l'Unifolié "the one-leaved"), is a base red flag with a white square in its centre, featuring a red stylized 11-pointed maple leaf.

Technical description

The ratio of the Canadian flag is 1:2, or the length of the flag is twice the width of the flag.

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The Department of Canadian Heritage has listed the various colour shades that should be used when reproducing the Canadian flag, these include:

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• Printing ink
• FIP red: General Printing Ink, No. 0-712;
• Inmont Canada Ltd., No. 4T51577;
• Monarch Inks, No. 62539/0
• Rieger Inks, No. 25564
• Sinclair and Valentine, No. RL163929/0.

The following colours 0/100/100/0 in the CMYK process or PMS032 (flag red 100%) or PMS485 (used for screens) in the Pantone colour specifier can be used when reproducing the flag. In the Pantone Matching System, the colour used (not officially) is 186c. {{ref|colours}}

Related Topics:
CMYK - Pantone

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