Options

DrawShield offers some control over the visual appearance of the shield image. The options for this can be selected on the main "create" page by clicking on the "Drawing Options..." button, this brings up the following, which I hope is self explanatory.

Note that if you change any of these options (and have cookies enabled) then your choices will be preserved between sessions. You can safely disallow cookies for this site if you do not want this behaviour.

In addition to setting options using the form there is also a facility to specify these options by a (non-standard) extension to the blazon itself. These are described in detail on the Drawing Options Extension page.

Providing Your Own Palette

Palettes are simple text files consisting of the tincture name, an equals sign and a hex code, one per line with no whitespace. If you have a palette that you would like to have added just e-mail an appropriate file to me. The default tinctures are provided below as an example, cut and paste this into your own file and modify as required. Any tinctures not given will be drawn using the DrawShield default colours.

or=#EFD807 
azure=#1E7FCB 
vert=#149414 
gules=#E21313 
argent=#F0F0F0 
sable=#050505
purpure=#965578
// additional tinctures    
murrey=#8C004B
sanguine=#850606
carnation=#FEC3AC
brunatre=#7E0001
cendree=#848484
rose=#FF006E
bis=#F1E2BE
celestial-azure=#96C8F9
senois=#8D4024
tenne=#A75502
orange=#FAA401
//Other decorative parts
charge-stroke=#696969
ordinary-stroke=none
pattern-stroke=none
division-stroke=none
// For sports fields
white-line=#FFFFFF
// Error colour
gray=#888888
// Additions by https://www.reddit.com/user/Mysterious_Italy
iron=#bcbcbc
bronze=#c28039
copper=#ba702f
lead=#6b949e
steel=#bdbdbd
white=#ffffff
// other heraldic authorities
buff=#f0dc82
red-ochre=#890520
yellow-ochre=#ccaa2b
crimson=#850606 //same as sanguine