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• 22:32, 30 June 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Multi-Colour Divisions (Created page with "This section contains divisions that can take up to 3 different tinctures. Note that Per Pile can take either two or three colours. Also, where it makes sense, some of these divisions can be "reversed" in which case they are shown upside down. Divisions which may have variant edge types are shown with '+' symbols. ==Catalog== {{#mkgallery:/catalog/divisions/multi}} Category:Divisions")
• 22:31, 30 June 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Minor Divisions (Created page with "This section contains less common divisions. The quarterly divisions can take any of the variant edge types, the wavy edges are just provided as examples. Note that per chief is explictly a division of the field, i.e. it is just a way of splitting the field into two parts of different tinctures. It has no effect on the placement of other charges or anything else - this is in contrast to the ordinary known as the chief, it has a similar visual appearance but other charge...")
• 22:28, 30 June 2022 Karlw talk contribs deleted page Category:Division (wrong category name)
• 22:22, 30 June 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Divisions (Created page with " {{#addbodyclass:no-categories}} Divisions are partitions of the field into separately coloured sections. Some times the larger ordinaries or other charges are also coloured using one of the simpler divisions, such as <keyword>a roundel per pale azure and or</keyword>. DrawShield supports the divisions listed below. All of the "larger" divisions may be drawn with a pattern along the lines of separation, instead of a straight line. See the page on edges TODO for more de...")
• 22:20, 30 June 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Major Divisions (Created page with "This section contains the most common large divisions that split the field more or less evenly into two parts. Divisions which may variant edge types are shown with '+' symbols. ==Catalog== {{#mkgallery:/catalog/divisions/major}} Category:Divisions")
• 22:15, 30 June 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Division (Created page with " {{#addbodyclass:no-categories}} Divisions are partitions of the field into separately coloured sections. Some times the larger ordinaries or other charges are also coloured using one of the simpler divisions, such as <blazon>a roundel per pale azure and or</blazon>. DrawShield supports the divisions listed below. All of the "larger" divisions may be drawn with a pattern along the lines of separation, instead of a straight line. See the page on edges TODO for more deta...")
• 22:29, 4 March 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page User talk:Draw.Fosseway (Welcome!)
• 22:29, 4 March 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page User:Draw.Fosseway (Creating user page for new user.)
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• 23:54, 18 February 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page File:Freeside.png
• 23:54, 18 February 2022 Karlw talk contribs uploaded File:Freeside.png
• 23:53, 18 February 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Characters and Words (Created page with "==Text as a Charge== You can use arbitrary text as a charge and also arrange that text in various ways. The whole of a text is treated as a single charge, so it can be placed and arranged as required on the shield. Here is an example of a charge containing some arbitrary text: <keyword>the words "Fidus et Audax" gules</keyword> Note that it is followed by a tincture, just like any other charge, and it may be described as proper, in which case it will tinctured sable....")
• 22:53, 18 February 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Charges (Created page with "Charges are objects that are drawn on or around the shield, they typically represent physical objects. You can specify many different facets of a charge, including their number, location, arrangement and colour. Drawshield supports more than one thousand different charges, including all of the most common to be found in traditional Heraldry, and more are being added all the time. This sections discusses all the charges, grouped into fairly arbitrary categories, but a se...")
• 19:07, 13 February 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Punctuation (Created page with "After careful study of many blazons I have been able to determine that they follow one of two rules for the use of punctuation: Rule 1: All punctuation can be ignored (except when it can't) Rule 2: All punctuation is significant (except when it isn't) More seriously, it appears that it is used so inconsistently between blazons that it is almost useless to treat punctuation characters in any consistent and meaningful way. For this reason, DrawShield ignores all punctua...")
• 23:13, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Major ordinaries (Created page with "{{#addbodyclass:no-categories}} These are the most common ordinaries, being large and clearly recognisable. Most can take variant edge types, as indicated by the plus symbols. See the discussion on the page TODO divisions/minor for an explanation of the difference between the ordinary <keyword>chief</keyword> and the division <keyword>per chief</keyword>. {{#mkgallery|/catalog/ordinaries/major}} In addition to those shown above, some of them are available in variant...")
• 20:03, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Ordinary Modifiers (Created page with "== Ordinary Modifiers == Some ordinaries can have minor modifications. Not all modifiers apply to all ordinaries, and not all ordinaries have modifiers! DrawShield will display a warning if it cannot apply a modifier in a partifcular situation. In general, the major ordinaries support the largest number of modifiers, some of which can even be combined. === Orientation === Ordinaries that are not symmetrical may be described as <keyword>sinister, dexter, reversed, inv...")
• 19:11, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Other ordinaries (Created page with "There are some other things that are treated like ordinaries, even if they might be categorised as other things in heraldic tradition. <ds/> supports the modern addition to heraldry, the <keyword>Canadian Pale</keyword>, and the <keyword>label</keyword>, which may be of some number <keyword>of points</keyword>. The <keyword>ford</keyword> is an ordinary which has fixed colours, and the <keyword>gorge</keyword> is also treated like an ordinary. Most authorities regard...")
• 18:51, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Ordinaries (Created page with "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. Major ordinaries Diminutives Subordinaries Other ordinaries ...")
• 16:32, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Gradients (Created page with " In heraldry, a [[Treatments|treatment] is a regular, repeating pattern of two plain colours. <ds/> also supports <keyword>grady</keyword> which allows us to use gradients of two colours in almost of the situations that we could use treatments. == Gradients == The following terms cab be added to the list of supported treatments: * <keyword>grady in fess [colour] and [colour]</keyword> - A gradual transition from left to right * <keyword>grady in pale [colour] and [co...")
• 16:27, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Warhammer (Created page with " These names and RGB hex codes are taken from the list of Citadel Miniatures paints listed [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Citadel_paints on this Wikipedia page.] <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-4"> abaddon-black </div> <div class="text-right col-lg-1 col-sm-2" style="background-color: #231f20;">      </div> <div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-4"> administratum-grey </div> <div class="text-right col-lg-1 col-sm-2" style="background-color: #949...")
• 16:25, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Tartan colours (Created page with " These colour names and RGB hex codes are based on information from [https://www.tartanregister.gov.uk/ the official Scottish Tartan Register]. <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-4"> yellow </div> <div class="text-right col-lg-1 col-sm-2" style="background-color: #fccc3c;">      </div> <div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-4"> orange </div> <div class="text-right col-lg-1 col-sm-2" style="background-color: #f88000;">      </div> <div class="col-lg-...")
• 16:22, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs deleted page Other Colours (created in error)
• 16:07, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs deleted page Named Colours:Additional (non-heraldic) Colours (created in error)
• 16:06, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Other colours (Created page with "In addition to the widely recognised heraldic colours, <ds/> also supports various other colour sets - these can be used to extend the range of colours on a shield (not necessarily following heraldic tradation) or are useful for drawing some of the non-heraldic things. By default these additional colours are NOT enabled. They become available if: * They are selected in the preferences pane on the create page * They are stated in the Drawi...")
• 16:05, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Other Colours (Created page with "In addition to the widely recognised heraldic colours, <ds/> also supports various other colour sets - these can be used to extend the range of colours on a shield (not necessarily following heraldic tradation) or are useful for drawing some of the non-heraldic things. By default these additional colours are NOT enabled. They become available if: * They are selected in the preferences pane on the create page * They are stated in the Drawi...")
• 15:55, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Named web (Created page with " These are the named web colours as per the CSS level 4 colour specification. <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-4"> azure </div> <div class="text-right col-lg-1 col-sm-2" style="background-color: #f0ffff;">      </div> <div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-4"> cyan </div> <div class="text-right col-lg-1 col-sm-2" style="background-color: #00ffff;">      </div> <div class="col-lg-2 col-sm-4"> lime </div> <div class="text-right col-lg-1 col-sm-2"...")
• 15:54, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Named Colours:Additional (non-heraldic) Colours (Created page with "In addition to the widely recognised heraldic colours, <ds/> also supports various other colour sets - these can be used to extend the range of colours on a shield (not necessarily following heraldic tradation) or are useful for drawing some of the non-heraldic things. By default these additional colours are NOT enabled. They become available if: * They are selected in the preferences pane on the create page * They are stated in the Drawi...")
• 15:41, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Positions (Created page with "<herald>Don't confuse "in [a position]" with "on [a thing (and ordinary or charge)]". Take the example of "chief" if you sat that something is "in chief" you mean it is at the top of the shield. But "a chief" is a thing, an ordinary, and being a thing it needs further description, a tincture (color) at least. Thus we have "a chief gules". If the chief itself is decorated with a charge, then we say either "a chief gules charged with…" or "on a chief gules". "On" is f...")
• 15:33, 9 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Colour Alternatives (Created page with " == References == Heralds dislike repeating colours and will refer back to previous tinctures. The following such references are supported: <keyword>Of the field, of the first, of the second, of the third, of the fourth, of the last</keyword> In addition, if you do not provide a tincture where one is expected the next tincture encountered will be used in its place. E.g. in <keyword>Azure a bend wavy and a chief sable</keyword> the wavy bend will also be coloured sab...")
• 12:14, 3 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Meanings in Heraldry (Created page with "The question "What does X ''mean'' in heraldry?" often arises, with the expectation that there is a particular symbology and meaning to the things in heraldry. Sadly, in my view, this isn't really the case for anything in a purely heraldic context. So for example, a paricular culture might consider that an image of a Fox represents ''cunning'', or that lions are ''courageous'' but these meanings belong to the objects themselves, in any context, and may well have had tho...")
• 00:15, 3 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Treatments (Created page with "Treatments are patterns of repeated shapes that are typically applied to the field but can also be applied to the larger ordinaries or divisions. Most treatments expect two colours to be used. By default, <keyword>mulletty</keyword> has the field strewn with five pointed stars. Alternatively you may use <keyword>mulletty of n points</keyword>; where n can be 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 and the word "points" is optional. The following treatments with fixed colour roundels are a...")
• 23:19, 2 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Furs (Created page with "Furs are intended to represent animal skins (although you can be assured that no animals were harmed in the making of <ds/>!) There are three groups of furs which differ in the two colours applied. <herald>In the <keyword>ermine</keyword> group the spots represent tails of the ermine creature, a member of the weasel family and more commonly known as a stoat in the UK. In the <keyword>vair</keyword> group the pieces represent alternately placed belly and back skins of g...")
• 10:57, 2 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Getting Started (Created page with "Heraldry is a fascinating subject but can be difficult to get started, especially in the understanding and using of the language of Blazon. <ds/> offers several ways to get started, and you can follow whichever most suits you, or combine more than one of these approaches. Firstly, we have a You Tube channel which includes an introductory video. It says many of the same things as this page but in spoken words!...")
• 00:30, 2 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Palettes (Created page with "==Background== We saw earlier in the description of Colours:heraldic colours that in the early days of heraldry a word such as <keyword>gules</keyword> just meant "red" and that in creating actual shields anything that could be recognised as "red" would be sufficient. When drawing arms on a modern computer screen we have (literally) thousands of precise digital values to choose from, all which might appear "red". Which should we use? In reality this becomes a matt...")
• 22:45, 1 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page File:Colours.png
• 22:45, 1 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs uploaded File:Colours.png
• 22:01, 1 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Sidebar (Created page with " * navigation ** mainpage|mainpage-description ** recentchanges-url|recentchanges ** randompage-url|randompage * SEARCH * TOOLBOX * LANGUAGES")
• 12:36, 1 January 2022 Karlw talk contribs created page Colours (Created page with "Traditional heraldry has quite a restricted range of colours. This was largely because the original intention was instant recognition of arms, even from a distance or in poor light. There was no room for debate about whether a shade was "scarlet" or "maroon" - in early heraldry if it look "reddish" then red it was! Although the names for heraldic colours did not come from English but other languages, mostly French, so the heraldic word for "all shades of red" is actually...")
• 20:24, 31 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Tinctures (Created page with "Tinctures comprise the various ways in which parts of the shield can be filled with colours or patterns. This section describes them all, if you are just beginning to learn Blazonry then you can just stick to Heraldic Colours and Furs to start with. Heraldic Colours Furs Treatments Other Ways to Specify Colours Named Colours:Additional (non-heraldic) Colours Gradients (non-heraldic) Category:Manual")
• 20:12, 31 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Other Drawing (Created page with "Many of the drawing features of DrawShield are applicable (at least in some respects) to other domains. Over time various add-ons have been created that address some of these other domains. Support for these varies from poor to even worse but they might work for you! Flags Tartans and Fabric Swatches Warhammer Pauldrons Postage Stamps") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 20:07, 31 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Documentation (Created page with "This is the high level category that contains all DrawShield Documentation.") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:06, 31 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Grammar (Created page with "This section covers features of the language of Blazon. These do no necessarily follow heraldic practice but are necessary for the correct operation of the DrawShield program. Punctuation Numbers Comments Category:Documentation") Tag: Visual edit
• 20:02, 31 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Category:Shield Parts (Created page with "In this section you will find all those things that can be drawn on the surface of the shield, the ways that they can placed, modified, arranged and so on. The order here is also a suggested reading order as it moves from simpler to more complex concepts and you can also just apply what you read up to any point to create a valid blazon. Category:Tinctures Category:Ordinaries Category:Division Category:Edges Category:Charges :Category:Fea...")
• 19:05, 31 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Artist Hints (Created page with "If you engage a human artist to create a coat of arms for you it is often a collaborative process. On being shown the first draft, you might say things like - "That's lovely, but can you make the lion a bit larger and move it up a bit?". The same dialogue is possible with DrawShield, using the "Artist Hints" extension. These are placed within the blazon itself and should follow whatever it is the hint is about. Hints are introduced with the keyword <keyword>shown</key...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 15:49, 31 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page FAQs (Created page with "=== Can I Use Content Created in DrawShield for....(whatever)? === The source images that are used in the creation of content are subject to a variety of license conditions, however the final image as produced by the DrawShield program is released under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA licence. You may therefore do anything with that image as permitted by that licence and you should refer to the Creative Commons License page for more information on what this is") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 16:00, 30 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page File:Available Shield Shapes.png
• 16:00, 30 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs uploaded File:Available Shield Shapes.png
• 15:53, 30 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Drawing Instructions (Created page with "On the Create Menu there is an extra panel that can be opened which allows you to set various visual options about how the shield is drawn.In addition to setting options using the form there is also a facility to specify these options by a  extension to the blazon itself. Options are introduced by the word <keyword>drawn</keyword>. Options set in the blazon override those set on the create page. You can place drawing options either before or after a shield description...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched
• 12:24, 30 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Glossary (Created page with "Heraldry contains many specialist terms and also common words that have specific meanings when used in a blazon. Unfortunately these terms are not always used consistently. For the purposes of DrawShield ''only'' we define the following terms and their usage quite precisely. They may not agree with other sources but always mean the same thing when you see them used on the DrawShield website or in messages. Arrangement When there is more than one charge, the arrange...")
• 23:09, 29 December 2021 Karlw talk contribs created page Supporters (Created page with "Supporters are things placed either side of the shield, appearing to hold it up. Supporters can be any charges, if they are both the same then sinister version is automatically reversed. At present there are always two supporters, introduced by the word <nowiki><keyword>supporters</keyword></nowiki> and then followed a normal description of a charge. It is possible that other combinations may be supported in the future. It is also possible to have different su...") Tag: Visual edit