[tirrigh-heralds] Received AA, now I need A

[Basil]

On 6/6/2013 5:42 PM, Runescope wrote:
>> You can keep the sun. The design is quite simple enough with it
>> in.
> Great!
>
>> However, you'll need to do a bit of redrawing, because at present
>> it's not clear if there's a primary charge group (the sun)
>> between two towers in a secondary charge group, or if it's one
>> primary charge group of a sun and two towers.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the confusion. I think this is what
> you're talking about?
>
> Primary Charge Group.

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> Soo, I think this means that the sun would be the central ordinary
> right?

An "ordinary" is one of those big, geometrical charges, like a fess or 
a bend. A sun isn't an ordinary.

NB: you *can* have more have two types of charges in the same charge 
group. Not three, though. So the sun and the towers can both be in the 
primary charge group.

 > And it's not clear if the towers are part of the primary
> charge group because they are all the same size and in a line?

The problem is that their not *quite* as large as the sun, but not 
enough smaller to be clearly secondary.

Being in line is not relevant to whether they're primary or secondary.

> So
> if I were to move the sun higher/make it larger, and/or move the
> towers lower, would that clear it up? If not, I would appreciate
> some suggestions on how to clear it up.

Moving the sun upwards, or the towers downwards, would not clarify 
whether the towers are "co-primary" (i.e., primary along with the 
sun), or secondaries. Not if that's all you did

The problem is the relative sizes. If you made the towers a bit larger 
or the sun a bit smaller, you'd have no problem. Once you did that, 
you could leave them in line (which I would think would look best), or:
A) if you made them all the same size you could move the sun up and 
the towers down, or vice versa. However, you *probably* couldn't move 
just the sun or just the towers; I don't think those arrangements of 
primary charges are allowed, but I'll let others speak to that
B) if you made the towers definitely smaller than the sun, you could 
move the towers up, or *maybe* down, but the sun would have to stay in 
the center.

NB: you don't want to make the towers *too* small; half the height of 
the sun would be about the smallest acceptable size.

I strongly suggest you go to http://rollofarms.antirheralds.org/ and 
wander around and take a look at what's there. That should help you 
get a better idea for heraldic art and layout. :-)


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