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Re: Conlang Flag Design

From:Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...>
Date:Wednesday, September 1, 2004, 8:33
Staving John Cowan:
>Roger Mills scripsit: > > > Yes. My first thought was that the colors ought to be those of the > > Lithuanian flag, whatever they are...but never mind :-). > >Red, green, and yellow. The flag is unheraldic because the red and >green border. See http://fotw.vexillum.com/flags/lt.html . > >BTW, the rules of heraldry (most notably "no metal on metal or color >on color", where "metal" means "white or yellow" and "color" means >"red, green, blue, black, or purple") aren't just arbitrary: they have >everything to do with visibility at a distance, which was even more >critical for armor than for flags.
Surely, for the metals you mean "Argent" and "Or", and the colours are "gules, vert, azure, sable and purpure"? Pete