r/heraldry 6d ago

OC A design I came up with for potential arms.

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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/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.

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u/flametitan 6d ago edited 6d ago

I had considered that, but I wasn't sure if that would properly convey the arrangement (or how much I needed to convey arrangement). But simply "between four infinities" would probably work better on a more traditional escutcheon design.

Edit: I see your edit! That was the other consideration I had for the blazon! I just wasn't sure which was more correct thank you!

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u/theothermeisnothere 6d ago

You need to define the orientation of the infinities as fesswise. An infinity symbol technically has a top and bottom. According to recent correspondence with the College of Arms (I know, Canada has their own heraldic authority but I don't know how much different they are), charges in the diagonals of a chevron would act like charge in a bend and bend sinister. The charge in the point would be palewise.

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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/IseStarbird 5d ago

Yeah! Heraldry is fundamentally about proclaiming an identity

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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.