[ANSTHRLD] Device check
Mistress Bronwen
mistressbronwen at solhaven.com
Thu Oct 20 13:55:28 PDT 2005
"Per fess" is a field division, and can have two colors. "A fess" is an
ordinary, and cannot generally be placed upon a field with which it has
low contrast.
~
Bronwen
"Quod Excogitem Sum"..."I Am What I Can Imagine"
[Per pale sable and argent, an antelope statant and in chief a pearled
coronet counterchanged]
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----- Original Message -----
From: <francis.schalles at ttuhsc.edu>
To: <heralds at ansteorra.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: [ANSTHRLD] Device check
>I was under the impression that you could have a field division, a
>fess,
> with two colors. I understand the basic rules, of tincture and metals
> used
> for contrast. Guess I need to read the rules again. So any pale, pall,
> bend
> chevron, etc must be the opposite (metal/tincture) of the field?
>
> Troye
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: heralds-bounces+francis.schalles=ttuhsc.edu at ansteorra.org
> [mailto:heralds-bounces+francis.schalles=ttuhsc.edu at ansteorra.org] On
> Behalf
> Of Alden Drake
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 3:46 PM
> To: Heralds List, Kingdom of Ansteorra - SCA, Inc.
> Subject: Re: [ANSTHRLD] Device check
>
> --- "Schalles, Francis" <francis.schalles at ttuhsc.edu> wrote:
>> Again greetings,
>> Vert, a fess gules charged with a fleu-de-lys Or.
>> Too simple?
>>
>> Troye
>> Western Cross Herald
>>
>
> Also blazoned: Vert, on a fess gules a fleur-de-lys Or.
>
> This design has a color-on-color problem. The Rule of Tincture, or
> what
> you'll commonly hear as
> color-on-color or metal-on-metal, is used in the SCA to ensure
> sufficient
> contrast of charges on
> the field of a device. Basic colors consist of gules (red), vert
> (green),
> sable (black), azure
> (blue), and purpure (purple). Basic metals consist of Or (yellow) and
> argent (white). Furs and
> "proper" tinctures vary depending on the major tincture used and I'll
> be
> willing to discuss them
> separately if desired.
>
> Poor contrast is obtained from putting a charge of a color on a field
> of a
> color (ie a fess gules
> on a vert field). The same would apply to a metal charge on a metal
> field
> (ie a fess Or on an
> argent field).
>
> The same would apply to a charge atop another charge - in this case,
> the
> fleur-de-lys Or on the
> fess gules. This shows good contrast. A fleur-de-lys vert on a fess
> gules
> would not.
>
> My recommendation would be to change the vert field to either Or or
> argent.
> If you want the vert
> field, you'll need to change the fess tincture to a metal, and
> therefore
> change the fleur tincture
> to a color.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> YIS,
> Alden Drake
>
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