Please vote for which is your favourite nuaunce of this badge.
Some points to note about this design:
- The crossed keys should really be pointing up as per St Peter's Church (and more broadly the symbol of St Peter in general), but we've included a couple of options with them pointing down since some people asked for this.
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Last edited by AndyKirkup on Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:29 am, edited 1 time in total.
If you want to be heraldically accurate, you can't have a red lion on a blue background. Heraldry designates colours as either metals, tinctures, or furs. Strictly speaking, you can't place tincture against tincture, or metal against metal, or fur against fur. (There are two well-known exceptions, but they are both foreign and therefore outside the aegis of the College of Heralds - the Vatican flag is yellow and white (gold and silver), and the American flag has red stripes butting right up against the blue field upon which are the fifty stars).
Yellow and white (heraldic language - "or" and "argent") are "metals" - ie, they represent gold and silver on a shield.
Black (heraldic language - "sable") is a "fur".
All other colours are "tinctures".
It may not seem important now (although as you might guess, as a dedicated pedant it is important to me anytime) but if we were to make a success of AFCR&D, we might want to register our badge/arms to prevent others from nicking them - and we might therefore need the permission of the College of Heralds for a grant of arms - and if we did that, they wouldn't allow most of the designs we've been looking at, for a number of reasons: so we might as well get it right from the beginning?
AFCR&D Member Number 38 - Proud member of a Community Football Club, currently in exile in West Wales!
