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- From: dgreen@thor (David Greenebaum)
- Newsgroups: rec.heraldry
- Subject: Re: Fields of green (and blue, or gold and silver)
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- Date: 17 Nov 92 01:21:48 GMT
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- Tim writes:
- > [...] In SCA heraldry,
- > [...] "good contrast", which
- > the Rules artificially (and, I think, erroneously) define as being of
- > opposite tincture classes, i.e. one must be a metal and one a color.
-
- In low-light situations (as in, next time you're wandering from campfire
- to campfire at an event), it's VERY hard to distinguish between sable
- and gules, azure and vert, Or and argent, etc. Or and purpure, vert
- and argent are MUCH easier. I think Laurel's ruling is sensible.
-
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