[ANSTHRLD] Heraldic design question

Tim McDaniel tmcd at panix.com
Mon Sep 22 15:08:29 PDT 2008


On Mon, 22 Sep 2008, Teceangl <tierna.britt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Enarching was used to indicate shield curvature and....  Well, how
>>> would one do that to a chief triangular?
>>
>> The exact same way you'd add curvature to a straight-line point
>> pointed == "a base triangular"?
>
> The only pointy line that I've seen that works enarched is the
> chevron. Never seen a base triangular enarched, have you?

I have the impression that the point pointed ploy{e'} is the standard
depiction in real-world heraldry of a point pointed.  Am I mistaken?
It's concave (bulging downwards) rather than bulging up, but I
understand that the submitter wants it concave for the chief
triangular ploy{e'} too.

Daniel Lindum
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Tim McDaniel, tmcd at panix.com



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