j.carrasco;87123 wrote:

Yes. Of these too I think the Or-on-Sable version is better. The cross definitely pops more.

Yes, agreed - the Sable and Or is the best so far IMHO.

Somehow the one on the right seems easier on the eyes to me, so it’s the one that appeals to me the most as well.

Yes to Sable and Or!

Yes, definitely, Sable and Or!

Ditto Or on Sable.

Interesting aside: I just found this image on Ars Heraldica.

http://www.arsheraldica.dk/upl/9800/HenrikGundelachskydeskiveredigeret0_0.jpg

(source)

http://schrenk.us/coas/arms12.png

(Rejected proposal #12)

Not identical, of course, but very very close!

Alexander Schrenk;87158 wrote:

Not identical, of course, but very very close!

In heraldry, very close does not count. Only an identical blazon is usurpation.

David Pritchard;87164 wrote:

In heraldry, very close does not count. Only an identical blazon is usurpation.

Yes, of course. I wasn’t worried about that. (Especially since I ended up far away from that proposal anyway.)

I merely found it a remarkable coincidence that the collaborative efforts of members contributing to this thread produced a coat of arms so similar to one that already exists. All the more so since I think the design is quite unique.

Interesting coincidence—but Remarkable?  I’m thinking of a variation on the old "million monkeys in a room"—but monkeys in tabards of course…

The "voting" on this thread reminds me of the recent Iowa Caucus—painstaking counting of votes that really don’t count!  again)—it will be your own long-term gut reaction, and maybe that of family members, that will really count.  But that doesn’t make the straw poll here in on-line-Iowa any less interesting & fun!

(and here at least, the competition is between choices any one of which would be a winner…)

So over the past two weeks of looking at the last design here, something about the fretty cross started seeming… somehow unsatisfactory to me. The layout didn’t seem visually exciting to me. I found that I kept coming back to the proposal that I rejected in post #64.

http://schrenk.us/coas/arms18a.png

I simplified things a bit and ended up with this:

http://schrenk.us/coas/final arms 2.png

Now to see how this feels in two weeks.

I believe Alexander it was Joseph McMillan who suggested it was impossible for you to come up with a bad design ........ and I heartily agree.

Excellent work, and I envy your fridge door.

You do really have a skill for coming up with pretty consistently good designs.

This is another interesting design.  Definitely not something you’d find somewhere else.

Have you tried the fretty in Or and the crosses in Argent?  Or both Crosses and Fretty in Or?  You might want those color combinations up on the fridge with this design, just to see if onecombination sings out over another when side by side.

One nice thing about the extended design discussion is the number of designs you DON’T adopt—which others may then "mine" in the future!

I like your latest.  As to colors—IMO (others may differ!) it will be visually clearer & more distinct if the fretty pieces and the small crosses are not the same color—doesn’t matter (to me) which is gold & which white, though there may be personal reasons you would prefer one version over the other.

Minor artistic comment, not bearing on the design itself (i.e. just artistic license)—you might consider drawing the fretty pieces just a tad thinner & the small crosses just a tab larger.  The fretty pattern will still be obvious & distinct even if a little thinner, & the crosses a bit clearer from a distance or in a small scale (e.g. on a signet ring) if a bit larger.