Looked up the California one. I think it’s ugly, but when you compare with flags of states of the USA, the bar isn’t high. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/

Looked up the California one. I think it’s ugly, but when you compare with flags of states of the USA, the bar isn’t high. Looking at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_U.S._states_and_territories https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_U.S._states_and_t..., it’s so bad that at least 8 states feel the need to write their name in large print on their flags (Arkansas, Wisconsin, Oregon, Iowa, California, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma; Illinois IMO is borderline large print), presumably because they fear people wouldn’t recognize it without that help. Countless others have lots of unreadable details and small print. Wyoming, for example, would be nice if they removed that seal. Delaware seems to have had a few flags in history that looked so similar that they wrote the date on it to make it easier to distinguish them. For those wondering: “California Republic” comes from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Republic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Republic. AFAIK, no such republic exists today.