File talk:Coat of Arms of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange (new).svg

Why is the Diocese's Coat of Arms different from their logo?

Compare the images from the Coat of Arms her to their logo. The shield part is the same, but the Bishop's miter part is different. Here is the logo from their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/dioceseoforange/photos/a.357882220942100/865663246830659/

The logo they use on Facebook is the one they use for their YouTube channel, which appears in the lower left corner of Masses they live-stream https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJV9-ezdceobLqe5tyZCcqA

A black-and-white version appears on their homepage https://www.rcbo.org/ SlowJog (talk) 13:56, 3 May 2021 (UTC)

A coat of arms is a heraldic achievement, not a logo, and what dictates whether a rendition is accurate or not is whether it observes the blazon. There are many different ways in which one can render a crozier or lions regardant or two black stars with holes and still be valid. While I'm no expert in ecclesiastrical heraldry, the tradition seems to be simply to use a mitre, without specifying any details about the mitre, so using a white mitre and infulae instead of the traditional gold seems like an ordinary variation.-Choster (talk) 14:33, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

I know nothing of heraldry at all, so I'm unable to understand the reply. Whatever a heraldic achievement is, is there any prohibition in using it the same way, for the same purposes, one would otherwise use a logo? Is there something that prevents using a coat of arms as a logo? SlowJog (talk) 22:44, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

I'm straying from the point. Is what I refer to as the "logo" of the Diocese actually their Coat of Arms? If it is, should the depiction here be updated? SlowJog (talk) 14:31, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

I'm saying it's probably fine. Think of it like this: suppose I told you to draw a picture of a brown dog wearing a blue sweater vest. You might draw a Yorkshire terrier wearing a sky blue crew neck acrylic vest with a red collar. You might draw an apricot poodle in a navy blue V-neck wool vest with a black collar. Both of those would be accurate representations of what I told you to draw. This version of the coat of arms is fine. If you want to upload the version that the diocese uses and prefer that in articles, that's also fine, but the existence of that version does not make this one wrong. - Choster (talk) 20:04, 6 May 2021 (UTC)