Mock heraldry for ordinary people
On a FieldWhat you stand for and how you actually live, granted arms.
Give up to three things you stand for and a few everyday quirks. The grant picks a field, a band and a charge for you, each tied to your own words, and adds a motto in plain English. The page draws the shield, writes the blazon and checks the old rule: metal on colour, colour on metal.
I What you are made of free
II The grant metered
One run picks the tinctures, the band and the charge from your lines, writes a motto and says why for each part. The page then draws it and checks it.
Pricing as soon as the session is ready...
The reply could not be read as a grant. Here it is as it came back:
The page's check
IV Saved arms
How it works
A brand mark says what someone stands for at a glance; heraldry did that with a handful of colours and shapes. Here your first thing you stand for sets the field (or your favourite colour does, when it names one of the seven tinctures), your second sets the band across it (the ordinary), and your first quirk or your object sets the charge, one per quirk.
The seven tinctures: two metals, Or (gold) and Argent (silver, drawn white), and five colours, Gules (red), Azure (blue), Vert (green), Purpure (purple) and Sable (black). The rule of tincture says metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour, so each layer stands out. The meanings this page gives the tinctures and shapes are its own playful key, not official symbolism.
Mock arms, made for fun. They are not a grant from any heraldic authority and do not belong to any family.