The following ordinaries are available in the Europe setting. A blazon must have exactly one ordinary, so if the player wants a solid background, he or she can choose any ordinary and make it the same colour as the background. a/an) are required whenever specified below (some ordinaries and all charges). They can, though, be perfectly used on the background and on the ordinaries.

The colors falling into this are: Aquamarine, BlueViolet, Goldenrod, GreenYellow, LavenderBlush, Orange, OrangeRed, Orchid, and YellowGreen. The table below displays all available colors that can be used on the background, the ordinary and the charge of the coat of arms.ĭue to a bug, charges cannot have a tincture with a name that starts with another tincture name. Players can use the arrows and the del key if needed. Kingdom: New Lands – Since version 1.2.3 and onwards, using ⌫ Backspace when typing the blazon makes the 'Options' submenu close back to main menu. There is a multitude of possible combinations for a Kingdom's coat of arms. Second tincture: modifies the ordinary, appearing on banners and shields.įor example, NAVY A SALTIRE WHITE A LION RED produces a navy-colored coat of arms with a white saltire and a red lion (see image). In the adjusted mode you cannot pick a background pattern but you can change the colours.First tincture: the primary color for the Kingdom, appearing on the King's cape, on the Queen's dress and on banners.

For all the colouring options in the coat of arms, designer Paradox have provided a palette with some pre-selected colours that are used in heraldry generally and are what they use in randomization of the coat of arms but we are also given a colour picker to let us pick whatever horrifying neon colour we want. Starting with the background panel you can pick from any of the background patterns as well as pick what colours should be used. The reason adjusted mode is separate is that some historical coats of arms are made up of a lot of emblems in an order that whilst looks pretty in-game is rather cursed if you were to try and see the full layout and background usage. The meat of the system comes in the form of customizing your coat of arms from scratch or adjusting the existing one, both share their core components but the adjusted mode is more limited if you want to take a pre-existing coat of arms and just tweak it a bit.

Ck2 coat of arms designer