Some escutcheons have small nibs or notches in their outline that aren't really part of the field — for example the little feet at the bottom of the French modern escutcheon, or the notched top corners of the English one. Each of these escutcheons already defines a field area (a bounding box and fess point) that excludes those extremities, and ordinaries and charges have always honoured it.…
The arms list now has a structured search that lets you filter by specific aspects of the design using key:value tokens — mixed freely with regular name search. All tokens have to match for an arms to show up. Just type into the search bar. The autocomplete dropdown walks you through the available keywords and their values. For charge: and crest: it pops up the same charge-type tree you know from…
You can now delete your arms, collections, charges, and ribbons. The action lives in the ... menu next to the Save button on each entity's page, and asks for confirmation before doing anything. Collections and arms are always permanently deleted. If the deleted arms were part of someone's collection, that slot is preserved with a (deleted) label so the collection layout stays intact.…
You can now upload your own profile picture . Head to your account page and click the new Upload button next to your avatar, pick an image, drag it around and zoom to position it the way you like, and save. The crop is circular by default, but you can opt out of that with a checkbox if you'd rather show the whole image as a square. This is particularly useful if you want to use a coat of arms…
This update adds the stepped line style (German: Stufenschnitt ). Unlike other line styles, the stepped line keeps its horizontal segments truly horizontal and its vertical segments truly vertical, regardless of the line's angle. This means a horizontal line will appear straight, as there are no steps to show. The steps only become visible when the line is at an angle, such as for a bend,…
This update adds three new line styles: trefly trefly counter trefly epine
The community has contributed more themes and escutcheons, which now have a label and can be filtered by name. There also have been various bugfixes and minor improvements. Four of the biggest features are the following: Charge type filter The charge list now has a charge type filter that lets you browse charges by their type in the ontology hierarchy. This makes it much easier to find the right…
You can now log in with your username or email address . For this to work I've migrated the system to a different one. This shouldn't be noticeable to you, but if you notice any issues with registrations, password resets, or confirmation emails, then please reach out to me, so I can have a look. Note: in the past it was possible to register multiple users with the same email address,…
I wish all of you a happy and healthy 2026! Thank you for all your continued work on the site. Heraldicon has grown significantly again: over 7,300 users almost 100,000 coats of arms created, over 8,000 of them public over 15,000 charges, over 5,500 of them public The vast majority of content remains private. If you've created something you're proud of, please consider making it public -…
Charge type ontology The charge type attribute (previously also called 'blazonry name') is no longer a free text field, but a dynamic select field of charge types in a hierarchy. The hierarchy is based on the one HERO - Ontology of Heraldry , but there are others that were already added by users or that I found on other sites while curating the existing set, most notably Mistholme . Many…
I hope all of you had a great 2024, and I wish you an even better 2025! Just two days ago Heraldicon reached a milestone of 4,000 registered users. Amazing! And for comparison with the last new year post, there now are: 50,000+ arms, over 5,000 of them public 10,000+ charges, over 4,000 of them public 1,200+ collections, over 170 of them public So again thanks to everybody who helped with…
This was long overdue, and I never was happy with those little 'up'/'down' arrows to manipulate component order. Now you can drag and drop components and collection arms to reorder them. You can now also move components between parts of your achievement, e.g. move a charge from a helm to a field or to ornaments and back. Finally, you can drag and drop subfields in a field…
A user informed me that vairy in particular wasn't rendered correctly. The tinctures, as given in the blazon, were swapped. This affected all variants of the field type. While fixing this I also noticed that a similar issue existed for lozengy, potenty, papellony, and masony. This has been fixed as well. Some of your coats of arms may look different now if they use these field types Please…
I wish you all health and a splendid upcoming year. There weren't as many visible changes this year, but there were several improvements in the backend and a lot of new arms and charges created by many of you: 30,000+ arms, over 3,000 of them public 7,000+ charges, over 3,000 of them public 600+ collections, over 100 of them public Just as last year: thanks to everybody who helped with…
Flory and flory-counter-flory are now available line styles. Introducing those new line styles made me realize that the previous offsetting and spacing of line styles for bordures and orles was a bit unpredictable and difficult. This is now greatly improved, I believe. With a reasonable default offset being chosen to align the line style with the top center of the surrounding field shape. Some of…
I just went over all the existing escutcheons and improved their shapes and how they define the field and where the fess point is. This changed some of the escutcheons quite a bit, and even tho the vast majority of existing coats of arms is not affected, some of your coats of arms may look different now if they use these escutcheons . Please have a look and maybe adjust ordinaries or charges if…
I hope everybody had a good start into the year. Heraldicon recently reached a few milestones, there are now: over 1,200 users over 1,700 public arms, over 10,000 private arms over 1,000 public charges, over 3,200 private charges over 50 public collections, over 280 private collections Thanks to everybody who helped with feedback, feature requests, charge creations, especially public ones,…
There have been various new small features over the past few months and a large rewrite of the rendering system, which improves some existing conditions and will allow many planned features that weren't possible in the previous version. New features and changes: new rendering engine - this is the biggest change, albeit largely invisible, some immediate differences are: components are much…
The names for the two points used to position and orient partitions, ordinaries, and charges, have been renamed. anchor (previously origin ): is the main point an element is positioned with. orientation (previously anchor ): is the point an element orients itself towards, but it can also be a fixed angle. This might be confusing for a while for anyone already used to the old names, but I think it…
The main new feature is a blazonry reader, you can click on the pen nib next to any field to invoke it or click the dedicated button to create new arms from a blazon. Features include: immediate rendering of the blazon, feedback if a word is not understood auto completion suggestions for any incomplete or malformed blazon support for all charges added by the community, your blazonry reader will…
The site has a new name: Heraldicon Since there is at least one other group and a well-known heraldic artist who already use the name 'Digital Heraldry', the old name collided somewhat with them. 'Heraldry' also is rather generic on its own, making it hard to look for it among many heraldry-related websites. I hope the new name identifies the project more directly and is easier…
Changes and new features: Bordures and orles there now are bordure and orle ordinaries with arbitrary thickness/distance to the edge so far they don't allow line styles other than straight, which follows the surrounding field edge Humetty/couped and voided ordinaries ordinaries can now be made humetty/couped ordinaries can now be voided, this also honours the line style of the surrounding…
Changes and new features: Supporters, compartments, mantling ornaments around the shield can now be added there are some default charges for supporters, compartment, and mantling any other existing charge or new custom charges can be used for this a mechanism allows rendering these charges behind and in front of the shield (see next point) charge library interface improvements charges intended as…
Changes and new features: German translation the entire interface is now available in German News and About section aren't translated for the time being, might do that at some point as well there might be some translations that are not ideal or awkward the way they are used, email me if you find such cases! :) all forms now support undo/redo added the quarter/canton ordinary added the point…
Changes and new features: Helms/crests helmets, torses, crests or any combination of them can now be added multiple helms are supported next to each other, they auto resize for the helmets three new tinctures were introduced: light, medium, dark, but a helmet is just a charge, so it has a normal field that allows any other modifications of a field Ribbons and mottos/slogans a ribbon library can…
Changes and new features: UI rewrite the nested components are gone, as they were confusing, hard to navigate, and caused annoying scrolling issues separate navigation tree and form for selected components big speed improvements, a lot of the UI interactions now take 1-5ms, where previously 100-200ms were commonplace the layout works a bit better on mobile devices in landscape more, but the target…
New features: support for charge groups, charges can be arranged in rows, columns, grids or arcs/circles various charge group presets for the most common arrangements users can now be browsed public arms and collections can now be browsed tincture modifiers 'orbed' and 'illuminated' added Known issues: many charges render slowly charge groups should take the surrounding field…
New features: support for collections, which can be used to group existing arms, to create rolls of arms, group drafts, display arms for a specific topic, etc. arms, charges, and collections now also can be tagged arbitrarily, and these tags can then be used to filter for them or annotate some notes there are now separate options for escutcheon shadow and outline text in collections can be…
New features: support for cottising, cottises can have their own line styles, fimbriation, and follow the parent ordinary's alignment labels ordinaries can now be added, they can be full length, truncated/couped, and support various emblazonment options the chevron interface has changed a bit again, now using the anchor system as well, so they can be issuant from anywhere semys with arbitrary…
A big refactoring line styles, allowing line styles that are not pattern-based but extend across the full length of the line. support of full-length line styles, such as bevilled, angled, and enarched new pattern-based line styles, such as potenty, embattled-grady, embattled-in-crosses, nebuly, fir-twigged, fir-tree-topped, thorny gore ordinaries, which also uses the enarched line style, but can…
A total refactoring of angular alignment necessary for chevron and pile variants. chevron ordinary and division variants issuant from chief, dexter, and sinister pile ordinary and division variants issuant from anywhere, pointing at specific points or the opposite edge edge detection of the surrounding field for piles is dynamic and works for any shape and orientation orientation based on an…
The main new features are: paly/barry/bendy/chequy/lozengy field divisions with configurable layout quarterly division of MxN fields vairy treatment and its variations potenty treatment and its variations papellony and masoned treatment line fimbriation (single and double) with configurable thickness, which can handle intersecting with itself and optional outlines charge fimbriation with…
Following a browser-only prototype, this site now has a backend, where users can build a public and private library of charges and arms. Features include: various escutcheons with their own relevant points, e.g. fess, honour, nombril, etc. several divisions several ordinaries several line styles some common charge shapes lion and wolf charges in various attitudes counterchanged ordinaries and…