Template:Tincture/drawGR
A Palette for Tincturing Coats of Arms (and Flags) Pertaining to the Swiss Canton of Graubünden
This heraldic template is subsumed under {{Tincture}} and features the following colour values:
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Characteristics
The drawGR tincture palette, commonly referred to as the ‘GR palette’, is a set of colours – or tinctures, in heraldic language – intended for use in coats of arms pertaining to the canton of Graubünden (as well as flags]. 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 GR palette is based on the actual hex/RGB colour values used in the Canton of Graubünden's digital armorial of 2021, as opposed to the colour reference issued contemporaneously by the canton's Heraldic Commission. This official colour reference largely relies on the "web safe colours" of the nineteen-nineties, which are technologically obsolete today, as well as being aesthetically objectionable. For the purpose of this template, the decision was therefore taken to use the implemented colour values rather than the specified ones.
Recommended Usage
It is recommended that the GR palette be used for the coats of arms pertaining to the canton of Graubünden. The 101 municipal coat of arms contained in the digital armorial of 2021 have all been transferred to Commons. The Wappenbuch des Kantons Graubünden [PDF, 70 MB] of 1982 contains at least an equal number of former municipal coat of arms that were all vectorised in Berninas's body of work created in 2006. Bernina's files should not be re-tinctured using the GR palette. However, they might be recreated in the new style adopted by the online armorial (e.g. Castrisch, Uors).
The Palette in Use
Instances of the GR palette in use are listed in the Tinctures (Graubünden) 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, copy the following code into a file with the .gpl extension and save it to wherever your system keeps its GIMP and Inkscape palettes:
GIMP Palette Name: GR Palette # 255 255 255 #FFF argent 253 221 4 #FDDD04 or 28 99 183 #1C63B7 azure 255 187 153 #FB9 carnation 227 28 36 #ED1C24 gules 136 0 128 #880080 purpure 35 31 32 #231F20 sable 136 68 17 #884411 tawny 15 171 75 #0FAB4B vert