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Blazonry Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

Blazonry - the language of Heraldic Shield descriptions. Covers all English Heraldry with specific details for the Drawshield heralrdy suite (karlwilcox.com/drawshield)

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Marsha­lling

{Simple Shield}
{Simple Shield} dimidiated with {Simple Shield}
{simple Shield} impaled with {Simple Shield}
Quartered first {Simple Shield} second {Simple Shield} etc...
To place content on top of a quartered shield use ; overall {Ordinary} {Charge}

Main Colours

Or and Argent are known as "­met­als­"
  

Simple Shield

A Simple Shield must have a {field}, which may be followed by any number of {ordinary} and {charge}, and optionally end with Overall {charge}