Flag design vs Heraldry, an odd conversation with a friend.

[Vinyadan]

Hey, Oregon's is unique! And by "unique" I mean "contains additional bad ideas that set it apart from the others, like being totally different on the back than on the front"

[Fri]

related


https://satwcomic.com/coat-of-arms

[Beleriphon]

Imma just leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galler...gn_state_flags & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galler...nt_territories

That would be a list of every single county in the UN, followed by the flags of each nations dependent territories.

[Khedrac]

That sounds like someone misunderstanding what "leopard" means in heraldry. "Leopard" or "leo pard" (bearded lion) is the heraldic name for what we would consider a lion.
The three lions of the English royal arms are, in heraldic terms, leopards...

OK - that was a load of nonsense.
Leopard as a word derives from a lion (leo) and a pard (panther or leopard) as in a hybrid of the two - which is irrelevant to this subject.

Apparantly "leopard" has meant a number of different things in the heraldry of different countries over the years, but the English royal lions are leopards in the sense that leopard meant "a lion walking while looking at the viewer"...