Common Treatments for Ordinaries

Treatments can be applied to.

Fimbriated

Fimbriation is a thin stripe of a different colour along the edge of a central ordinary or central simple geometric charge. It must have good contrast with both the field and the ordinary, which means that this how you get an ordinary and field which have low contrast.

Cotised

Cotises are a thin strip on each side of a central ordinary. You can also have double cotises, though only single cotises are shown here. Cotises must be the same tincture as each other, though they do not need to be the same tincture as the ordinary, and must have good contrast with the field.

Fillet

While a chief cannot be cotised, a similar appearance can be achieved with a fillet. In this case, there can only be a single 'stripe' and it must be the same color as the chief.

Couped

Central ordinaries can either be throughout (stretching to the sides of the shield), or couped (cut short of the edge of the shield). No difference is granted for an ordinary couped straight or along the line of the shield. The couped version of an ordinary can be used on a fieldless badge, or can be used as a geometric charge in secondary or tertiary charge groups.

Enarched

Nowy

Diminutives

Diminuitives are multiples of the same ordinary on a device, drawn smaller than the single ordinaries. Two or three instances of a diminuitive are common. More are possible, generally, but consider using a Field Division instead. The SCA does not register single diminuitives, nor enhanced or abased ordinaries.

Fracted and Bevilled