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BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:52 am
by AndyKirkup
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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Re: BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 8:12 am
by Red Dragon
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?
Re: BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:01 am
by Trek
B ****y hell, Alan, anyone would think you used to be a graphic artist! ;)
Re: BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:20 am
by Red Dragon
Er.... I was!
Re: BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:27 am
by Trek
Red Dragon wrote:Er.... I was!
For London Transport, I understand. ;)
Re: BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 10:35 am
by Red Dragon
Trek wrote:Red Dragon wrote:Er.... I was!
For London Transport, I understand. ;)
Right, now this is getting weird... who
are you?
Re: BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 11:21 am
by Cotty
it's getting a bit like one of those 'spot the difference' puzzles in childrens' comics!
Re: BADGE VOTE ROUND 1.5 - OPTION 3 Design 17
Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 7:38 pm
by Bobos
Red Dragon wrote:Trek wrote:Red Dragon wrote:Er.... I was!
For London Transport, I understand. ;)
Right, now this is getting weird... who
are you?
It;s either God or a stalker 8-)