Category:Ordinaries

An ordinary is a shaped item that appears in a fixed, specific location on the field of the shield. In most cases there can only be one of each type of ordinary. DrawShield supports the following ordinaries. The headings below are sometimes used by Heraldic authorities to group ordinaries, but in most cases, DrawShield makes no particular distinction about them.

Herald's Notebook: Some items can be either ordinaries (i.e. a single example in a fixed location) or more than one can be present, in which case they treated like charges and can be positioned and arranged like any other charge. These are: cross, chevron, fret, label saltire. If you wish to ensure that you draw a single chevron as a charge (i.e. not occupying the whole field used chevron couped.

Some ordinaries are treated slightly differently when they appear on flags - further details can be found TODO here