Template:Tincture/drawAG
Subtemplate to {{Tincture}} Farbkarte Kanton Aargau
Characteristics
The drawAG tincture palette, commonly referred to as the ‘AG palette’, is a set of heraldic colours (tinctures in technical nomenclature) used for coats of arms and flags pertaining to the Swiss canton of Aargau. The palette provides a set of codes that will display the tinctures of any given coat of arms in the item's file description, rendering them as a sequence of coloured boxes as defined in the tincture field of the COAInformation template.
Provenance
The AG palette is an implementation of the hex/RGB tincture values contained in the Farbkarte Wappen im Kanton Aargau [PDF], a colour reference which is included as a print copy in the canton's municipal armorial of 2004.[1][2]
Recommended Usage
The AG palette is recommended for use in coats of arms and flags pertaining to the canton of Aargau.
Most other new Swiss coats of arms and flags should use the CH palette.
The AG Palette in Use
Instances of the AG palette in use are listed in the Commons category.
Palette File
The FOSS software applications GIMP and Inkscape both support the .gpl file format, which makes sets of colour values available for convenient application to artwork. To use the CH palette, fel free to copy the following code into a file with the .gpl extension and save it to wherever your system keeps its GIMP and Inkscape palettes:
#
255 255 255 #FFF argent
252 219 0 #FCDB00 or
0 147 221 #0093DD azure
240 0 0 #F00000 gules
0 0 0 #000 sable
122 63 40 #7A3F28 tenné
0 153 68 #094 vert
Notes[edit]
- ↑ Galliker, Joseph Melchior (2004) Gemeindewappen Kanton Aargau, Buchs: Lehrmittelverlag des Kantons Aargau ISBN: 978-3-906738-07-9.
- ↑ See also: (2021) Wappenregister Gemeinden Aargau, Staatsarchiv Aargau