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User:Jean-Mahmoud

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Hello all !

John-Mahmud here. Passionate about color and organized colors, which naturally led me to heraldry (where you'll see most of me) and public transportation networks (on which I sometimes delve).


I create blazons available on Wikimedia, mainly for french cities. I use the Projet:Blasons' Guidelines on blazon drawing, as expectable for french cities :

  • Using only french shield shapes (ancient or modern) for french cities and people, using Projet:Blasons's shields for foreign arms. These incorporate flat colours, with an overall shade layer meant to offer a "3D" effect.
  • Using the colors specified by the Projet:Blasons and used in France. I use all colours available (including Sanguine, Murrey, Celeste, Tenné, Orange, etc.), as they are given by the french palette. Nope, fellow brits : Tawny and Orange are two different colors !
  • Using correct proportions for ordinaries : 1/3 for bends, fesses, pales, etc. ; 1/6 for bendlets, crosslets, etc. ; 1/9 for fillets.

If you're looking for someone to turn your virtual shield into reality, I know a real-life shield maker who can construct your own medieval shield, with leather straps for hand usage or wooden handles for display.


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Feel free to hit my talk page for edit or off-topic discussion instead of using the revision comments section and starting edit wars. I'd rather discuss than bite.