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The metals and common colours of heraldry. One system of hatching is shown at right. Tinctures are the colours, metals, and furs used in heraldry.Nine tinctures are in common use: two metals, or (gold or yellow) and argent (silver or white); the colours gules (red), azure (blue), vert (green), sable (black), and purpure (purple); and the furs ermine, which represents the winter fur of a stoat ...
The rule of tincture does not apply to furs, nor to charges that are displayed in their natural tinctures and blazoned "proper". [3] The rule of tincture also does not apply when a charge is composed of both a colour and metal, and can be placed on a field of either a colour or metal. [4] An explanation of the heraldic tinctures with their ...
In the top and the bottom of the shield as well as on the crest, these arms feature copper, a heraldic tincture of the metallic sort which has been introduced in Canadian heraldry. [3] In the arms of Whitehorse, this tincture stands for the copper mining industry in the town and the importance of this metal for the first nations. [2]
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In British heraldry, sable (/ ˈ s eɪ b əl / ⓘ) is the tincture equivalent to black. It is one of the five dark tinctures called colours. Sable is portrayed in heraldic hatching by criss-crossing perpendicular lines. Sable is indicated by the abbreviation s. or sa. when a coat of arms is tricked.
In heraldry, copper is the tincture of metallic copper.Copper has been introduced in Canadian heraldry.It is considered a metal along with Argent (silver) and Or (gold) and should be depicted as bright, new copper metal.
In heraldry, or (/ɔːʁ/; French for "gold") is the tincture of gold and, together with argent (silver), belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals". In engravings and line drawings, it is hatched using a field of evenly spaced dots.
In heraldry, argent (/ ˈ ɑːr dʒ ən t /) is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals". It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it.