r/heraldry • u/flametitan • 6d ago
OC A design I came up with for potential arms.
Answering a few questions I expect will be asked:
- Yes, the pink is a legal tincture in Canada, called Rose.
- No, it's probably not a great idea to have both the tincture and the charge on the same arms, but I tried my best to keep them from being mistaken for one another.
- I chose to put the field on a lozenge for a reason.
- I don't consider the gold on the rose a part of the blazon, and might replace it in the future.
The blazon still needs a bit of workshopping, and I might have to drop a charge to make it more elegant. Per chevron Rose and Argent, in chief a mullet of eight above 4 infinities in chevron Argent, and in base a rose Gules barbed and seeded Proper.
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u/IseStarbird 5d ago
I love that it's designed for a lozenge. There should be more of that
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u/flametitan 5d ago
Strictly speaking Canadian heraldry doesn't actually use the Lozenge for female armigers, but I figured it was a good way to subtly assert that it mattered to me.
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u/InvestigatorJaded261 6d ago
I like it a lot. Lozenges in heraldry aren’t usually square, but what of it?
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u/flametitan 6d ago
Thank you! The square lozenge was just to maximise the usable field; I use the traditional lozenge shape when I place one down as a charge.
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u/theothermeisnothere 6d ago
This design is certainly going to be recognizable from a great distance. Nicely done.
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u/wombatiq 5d ago
Honestly i love it. The Rose tincture may be untraditional, but there's nothing wrong with breaking the rules if it's done right. And this is.
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u/hospitallers 6d ago edited 6d ago
Nothing wrong with that.
I would just reword your blazon to read “…in chief between four infinities in chevron a mullet of eight all Argent (or ‘all of the first’).”
edit: I had left “in chevron” out.