A Catalog of Individually Attested Pattern Submissions

Presented below is a catalog of SCA heraldic submissions using the “Individually Attested Pattern” rules, known as “IAPs,” which allow for the registration of armorial designs which don’t fall under the “Core Style” rules of the SCA’s College of Arms.

The catalog below covers submissions reviewed in LoARs from January 2007 through March 2025. It currently includes 107 IAP submissions, of which 75 were accepted and 32 were returned. (Three of the accepted submissions were revised versions following an earlier return.)

While I have attempted to be thorough, I can not guarantee that I haven’t overlooked some IAP submissions — if you find more, please let me know!

Revision History

The first version of this catalog was in this blog post from 2017, which was updated a couple of additional times over the subsequent years based on periodically trawling through OSCAR and the LoARs. It initially held 35 entries, incrementally growing to 56.

The second version was posted to this page in December 2020 with 61 entries. I decided to make a few changes to the way the information was organized, and figured that was a good opportunity to create a new document.

The third round of updates was made here in May 2025 based on searching the last few years of LoARs. My thanks to Emma de Fetherstan for sharing the data she collected in 2024, which included a number of items I had overlooked in earlier years. The catalog currently includes 106 IAPs and 8 pre-SENA regional style exceptions.

Items Other Than IAPs

While most of these entries were designated as IAPs from the outset, the list below also includes several items which were submitted without Individually Attested Pattern support but for which others attempted to provide the necessary documentation during the commentary process in order to facilitate their registration.

There have also been a couple of cases of items which were submitted as IAPs, but were ultimately accepted on the grounds of a new interpretation of the rules which meant that an IAP was no longer needed.

In addition to the IAP submissions from the era of The Standards for Evaluation of Names and Armory (introduced in 2012 and known as SENA), this list also includes eight submissions marked with “RfS,” which date from the earlier “Rules for Submission” that managed similar exceptions under the framework of “Regional Style Exceptions.” Although these were not judged under exactly the same rules as current IAPs, they were the closest equivalent in the RfS era, and are included in the summary tables below.

Summary Statistics

Timeline of IAP Submissions

There were a large number of these submissions in 2013-16, following the introduction of the IAP rules, with 10–14 submissions per year.

The pace has since declined somewhat since then, with 5-8 per year.

YearTotalAcceptedReturned
20071 1 
20081 1 
20091 1 
20102 2 
20112 2 
201211 –
20131147
20141082
201512111
201614104
2017835
2018871
2019752
202066–
2021752
202255–
2023743
2024541
2025624

Regional Origins

Italian and German armory has been the source of most of these submissions, followed in frequency by English and Japanese.

RegionCountAcceptedReturned
English17134
French440
German402713
Hungarian440
Iberian110
Islamic101
Italian29218
Japanese15105
Mesoamerican110
Roman101

Exception Types

By far the most common use of IAPs has been to justify the violation of the core style’s contrast rules, distantly followed by exceptions to support non-European armorial elements.

TypeCountAcceptedReturned
Low-contrast Charges725022
Low-Contrast Multiply-Divided Field1284
Low-Contrast Multiply-Divided Charges11–
Unusual Charges or Depictions13103
Unusual Arrangements752
High Complexity or Quartenary charges770
Multiple Divisions of More than Two Tinctures211

Other Resources

These other resources may be of use to you in constructing additional IAP submissions:

English

GYRONNY GULES AND SABLE

  • James Yale. Gyronny sable and gules, a cross of Saint Julian Or.  (OSCAR, LoAR 2012/07)
    • Exception documented: Gyronny gules and sable with charges.
  • Jacquelle d’Artois. Gyronny gules and sable, two sea-horses respectant Or and a sunflower proper. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/09)
    • Exception documented: Gyronny gules and sable with charges.
  • Gilly Wede. Gyronny gules and sable, a gillyflower argent between eight bees in annulo Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/12)
    • Exception documented: Gyronny gules and sable with charges.
  • Ragnarr Ottarsson. Gyronny sable and gules, a wolf-headed torc inverted and a bordure Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/12,Returned)
    • Exception documented: Gules and sable gyronny.
    • Unsupported: Wolf-headed torc.
  • Þyri Tyrkisdottir. Gyronny gules and sable, a tree blasted and eradicated between three mullets of six points one and two argent. (OSCAR, LOAR 2017/01,Returned)
    • Exception documented: Gyronny gules and sable with charges.
    • Unsupported: mullets of six points.
  • Cedric Helmbreker. Gyronny arrondi sable and gules, a roundel within a bordure argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2018/11,Returned)
    • Exception documented: gules and sable gyronny.
    • Unsupported: gules and sable gyronny arrondi.
  • Cedric Helmbreker. Gyronny sable and gules, a roundel and a bordure argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2020/08)
    • Exception documented: gules and sable gyronny.
    • Attested arrangements: low-contrast gyronny with contrasting primary charges low- or high-contrast peripheral secondaries.
    • Also found: bordures.
  • Svava Jórudóttir. Gyronny gules and sable, in pale a crescent and a key fesswise reversed, a bordure argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2021/08)
    • Exceptions documented: Gules and sable gyronny.

GULES FIELD WITH Low-Contrast CHARGEs

  • Andreiko Eferiev. Gules, a cloud sable within a bordure Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2017/02,Returned)
    • Exceptions documented: Gules field with sable charges. Also found: clouds.
    • Unsupported: Low-contrast primary paired with high-contrast secondary.

  • Andreiko Eferiev. Gules, a cloud sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2019/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Gules field with sable charges.
    • Also found: clouds.

High ComplexITY

  • Sebastiano Francisco de Valencia. Gyronny vert and argent, a lion Or vested of boots and maintaining a sword gules, a bordure sable crusilly Maltese Or.(OSCAR, LoAR 2013/12)
    • Registered despite complexity of nine, based on period examples.

High ComplexITY, QUARTERNARY CHARGES

  • Juliana de Luna. Sable, on a chevron Or between three gryphon’s heads erased argent a crescent between two escallops azure and on a chief argent three torteaux each charged with a fleur-de-lys Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2010/07, RfS)
    • Exceptions documented: Complexity count of twelve; quarternary charges.
  • Winifride Barnes. Azure, on a chevron between three roundels argent the top two charged with griffin’s heads erased and the bottom charged with a rose sable, a crescent azure between two lozenges palewise sable, on a chief Or a fox courant gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2020/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Complexity count of thirteen.
    • Also found: standard tinctures; chevrons, roundels, griffin’s heads, roses, crescents, lozenges, chiefs, foxes; charged chevrons between disparate charges; chiefs charged with a courant canid, and central ordinaries between disparate charges; a chevron charged with three charges between three roundels charged with different tertiary charges and a chief charged with an animate charge.

  • Katherine Throckmorton. Azure, on a chevron argent between three lozenges ermine three Catherine’s wheels gules and on a chief argent a crescent sable platy between two pellets each charged with an escallop argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2022/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Complexity; quarternary charges.
  • Andreiko Eferiev. Or, on a saltire azure between three fleurs-de-lys and a rose sable a goat’s head erased between four roundels Or, on a chief gules goutty a fox courant argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2022/03)
    • Exceptions documented: Complexity, multiple tertiary groups on same charge

  • Clara inghean Uilleim. Azure, on a saltire between four hares sejant erect playing bagpipes argent, a columbine azure between four anchors sable, on a chief ermine three towers gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2022/09)
    • Exceptions documented: Complexity, multiple tertiary groups on same charge

  • Lilion Jane Godwin. Paly of four gules and ermine, on a chevron Or a cross botonny azure between two pomegranates palewise gules slipped and leaved vert and on a chief sable a cock between two crescents argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2024/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Complexity.

French

AZURE FIELD WITH Low-Contrast Charges

  • Adrienne d’Evreus. Azure, a fleur-de-lys argent and a bordure gules. (OSCAR, Documentation, LoAR 2016/11)
    • Exception documented: Azure fields with a low-contrast gules bordure and a high-contrast primary charge.
  • Tomás de Calatrava. Azure, a Paschal lamb reguardant proper and on a chief gules three Maltese crosses Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2024/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Azure field with a gules chief and a high-contrast primary charge.

GULES FIELD WITH Low-Contrast CHARGES

  • Eve di Antonio di Rienzo Ruspoli. Gules, a fleur-de-lys within a double tressure Or, overall a label sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/09)
    • Exception documented: Gules fields with a low contrast sable label and a high contrast double tressure.
  • Emil Camus. Gules, a rose argent and on a chief azure a key reversed Or. (OSCAR, Documentation, LoAR 2018/11)
    • Exception documented: Use of a gules field with an azure chief carrying metal charges.

German

ARGENT FIELD WITH Low-Contrast CHARGES

  • Ariana verch Gwenllian. Device change. Argent, a pile bendwise Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/12)
    • Exception documented: Metal ordinaries on metal fields, as well as the very German motif of a pile issuing from a corner of the field.

  • Sigrún Bjarnheðinsdóttir. Argent, a grey domestic cat sejant proper atop a trimount azure. (OSCAR, LoAR 2021/05)
    • Submitted as an IAP, but accepted via rules change for gray.

  • Ræv Kolfinnsson. Argent, a winged fox segreant Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2022/08)
    • Exceptions documented: Argent field with a sole primary Or animal.

AZURE FIELD WITH LOW-CONTRAST CHARGES

  • Irmgard Hasenschlaf. Azure, a brown demi-hare proper. (OSCAR, LoAR 2009/01, RfS)
    • Exception documented: Use of a brown beast on an azure field.

  • Miquel d’Orion. Azure, on a pale gules three mullets of six points Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/02)
    • Exception documented: Charged gules ordinaries on azure fields, as well as the use of tertiary six-pointed mullets.

  • Miquel d’Orion. Azure, on a shakefork gules, three mullets of six points Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/02)
    • Exception documented: Charged gules ordinaries on azure fields, as well as the use of tertiary six-pointed mullets and the existence of the shakefork.

  • Ts’ai T’ien-p’u. Azure, a torteau and a chief argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2020/08)
    • Exception documented: color field with color primary charge and metal peripheral charge.
  • ffride wlffsdotter. Azure, a heckle bendwise gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2021/06)
    • Exceptions documented: Azure field with low-contrast charges.
  • Diedrich von Gutenberg. Azure, in chief a cross formy double-pommeled at the foot argent, issuant from base a mountain vert. (OSCAR, LoAR 2023/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Low-contrast mounts. Also found: mountains, cross formy double-pommeled at the foot.

GULES FIELD WITH Low-contrast CHARGES

  • Murienne l’aloiere. Gules, three furisons sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2010/07, RfS)
    • Exception documented: Use of complex sable primary charges alone on a gules field.
  • Kevin Sauðr. Gules, a musimon rampant sable and on a chief argent a furison sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/04, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Gules field with sable charge. Also found: cleaver.
    • Unsupported: Sable on gules with charged chief.
  • Gunnvör silfrahárr. Gules, a roundel argent within six boars courant in annulo sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/05, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Gules field with sable charge.
    • Unsupported: Complex arrangements of sable charges on gules.

  • Abd al-Khaliq Odqan. Sable, a caltrop gules, a bordure Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/06, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Gules field with sable charge. Also found: caltrop.
    • Unsupported: Sable on gules with bordure.

  • Eliyah al-Talhi. Sable, a pithon contourny in annulo vorant of its own tail gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/06, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Gules field with sable charge.
    • Unsupported: Pithons in German armory.
  • Karin Jacobsdotter. Per bend gules and Or, in bend sinister an anvil and a domestic cat sejant contourny sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/11, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Use of black charges on red on divided fields.
    • Unsupported: black charges paired with a dissimilar, high contrast charge on the other side of the field.
  • Heinrich Schreiber. Gules, on a fess sable three mullets of six points argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/10)
    • Exception documented: Gules, on an ordinary sable, three charges metal.
  • Robert Langeschwert. Gules, two bear’s paws couped addorsed sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/12)
    • Exception documented: Two sable charges on a gules field.
  • Kharatai Chinua. Gules, a wolf rampant sable and in base a sun Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/06, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Gules field with sable charge.
    • Unsupported: Good-contrast secondary in base.
  • Kevin Ost. Gules, in fess three spears sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2017/06, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Use of black charges on red.
    • Unsupported: Black on red with three palewise charges.

  • Guillem Cosinier. Gules, a cleaver sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2020/07)
    • Exceptions documented: contrast
  • Angelina Capasso. Gules, a domestic cat rampant sable maintaining a daisy proper. (OSCAR, LoAR 2021/10)
    • Exceptions documented: Low-contrast primary maintaing a high-contrast secondary.

SABLE FIELD WITH Low-contrast CHARGES

  • Ellisif Styrbjarnardóttir. Sable, a bear’s head couped contourny gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/07)
    • Exception documented: Use of complex gules primary charges on sable fields, as well as bear’s heads couped.

  • Susannah Scarlet. Sable, a chess rook gules and an orle argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/10, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Use of gules primary charges on sable fields.
    • Unsupported: red on black when paired with a high-contrast peripheral ordinary.
  • Alarich Iarngard von Thorn. Sable, a lion contourny queue-forchy Or atop a trimount gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2020/11)
    • Exceptions documented: Sable field with gules trimounts and metal animals.
  • Torquil MacGruder. Sable, in chevron a wolf’s head cabossed between two stags combattant argent and issuant from base three wolf’s teeth gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2023/03, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Low-contrast armory with similar charge arrangements.
  • Ascelyn of Ben Dunfirth. Sable, a stag’s attire palewise gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2023/12)
    • Exceptions documented: Sable field with gules charges.
  • Torquil MacGruder. Sable, a wolf’s head caboshed argent and three wolf’s teeth issuant from base gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2023/11)
    • Exceptions documented: Color field with high-contrast primary and low-contrast secondaries.

Divided GULES AND SABLE FIELD WITH Low-Contrast COUNTERCHANGed Charge

  • Madison Morai. Per pale gules and sable, a sun counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/12)
    • Exception documented: Use of per pale fields using gules and sable with counterchanged charges. Also found: suns and roses as charges.
  • Madison Morai. Per pale sable and gules, a sun counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/12)
    • Exception documented: Use of per pale fields using gules and sable with counterchanged charges.
  • Nur of the Angels. Per pale sable and gules, a rose counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2018/01)
    • Exception documented: Use of per pale fields using gules and sable with counterchanged charges.
    • Also found: roses.
  • Connor son of Galen. Per pale gules and sable, a stag’s head cabossed counterchanged.  (OSCAR, LoAR 2018/06)
    • Exception documented: gules-and-sable fields with low-contrast charges counterchanged over a per-pale line of division.

  • Westley Morgan. Per pale gules and sable, a dragon’s head couped contourny counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2019/12, Returned)
    • Exception documented: gules-and-sable fields with low-contrast charges counterchanged over a per-pale line of division. Also found: dragon’s heads.
    • Unsupported: asymmetrical animate charges counterchanged over a low-contrast line of division.

  • Felicitas Flußmüllnerin. Per pale gules and sable, a double-headed eagle counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2022/02)
    • Exceptions documented: Primary charge counterchanged over a sable and gules field.
  • Bran spiþra. Per pale sable and gules, a scorpion counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2023/12)
    • Exceptions documented: Primary charge counterchanged over a sable and gules field.

Divided GULES AND SABLE FIELD WITH Mixed-Contrast Charges

  • Joachim Courtenay der Marxbruder. Per fess indented gules and sable, a sword fesswise argent and a bull rampant gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2023/06, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Low-contrast armory with similar charge arrangements.

MULTIPLY-DIVIDED AZURE AND GULES FIELD

  • Eginolf von Basel. Bendy azure and gules, a wolf’s head contourny erased Or maintaining in its mouth an egg argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/07, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Low-contrast multiply-divided field.
    • Unsupported: Use of a low-contrast multiply-divided primary charge when obscured by a charges.

  • Eginolf von Basel. Per fess gules and bendy gules and azure, in chief an egg argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/02)
    • Exception documented: Divided fields of more than four parts in combinations of gules and azure, both uncharged or charged with argent charges.

PRIMARY CHARGE OVERLAYING A CHIEF

  • Marek Casimir of Krakow. Checky sable and argent, a chief enarched Or and overall an eagle displayed gules. (OSCAR 1, OSCAR 2, LoAR 2013/06)
    • Exception documented: A primary charge overlying a chief.

Ordinary with Multiple Charges

  • Rosaline de Preston. Badge. Quarterly Or and argent, an escarbuncle gules within a bordure gules fretty and semy of roundels argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/11,Returned)
    • Exception documented: Fretty with semy between the frets.
    • Unsupported: Two charge types of on a bordure.

Mixed Ordinaries and Non-Ordinaries

  • Síthmaith Eccnaidh. Per bend sinister engrailed Or and sable, in bend a bend sinister engrailed sable and a boar’s head cabossed affronty argent armed and crined Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2021/09)
    • Exceptions documented: Charge group mixing ordinary and non-ordinary charges.

Hungarian

AZURE FIELD WITH Low-contrast CHARGEs

  • Victor Ispan. Azure, a raven sable perched atop a trimount vert and in chief two mullets argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2007/03, RfS)
    • Exception documented: Use of complex dark or sable charges on azure fields; for vert trimounts, mounts, or bases with azure fields, some with dark or sable charges standing on them; for light-colored peripheral stars, often accompanying otherwise low-contrast designs; and for the use of all three design elements together.
  • Rakonczay Gergely. Azure, a boar statant sable transfixed by an arrow bendwise sinister Or and in chief a decrescent argent and a mullet of eight points Or. (OSCAR 1, OSCAR 2, LoAR 2008/01, RfS)
    • Exception documented: Use of a sable beast on an azure field, argent decrescents with Or suns, and sable animals transfixed by Or arrows.

  • Veoreos Miklos. Azure, an eagle sable and in chief a decrescent and a mullet of eight points argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2017/06)
    • Exception documented: The motif of a sable eagle displayed upon an azure field with high-contrast mullets and decrescents in chief.

GULES FIELD WITH Low-Contrast CHARGES

  • Lada Monguligin. Gules, a sans-serif letter “M” inverted surmounted by a pallet couped argent issuant from a trimount vert. (Kingdom OSCAR, OSCAR, LoAR 2013/03)
    • Exception documented: Use of a gules field with vert mounts or trimounts.

Iberian

GULES FIELD WITH Low-Contrast Charges

  • Bridget Wynter. Gules, a lion Or and a bordure azure crescenty argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/06)
    • Exception documented: Charged low-contrast bordures.
    • Also found: lions and crescents.

Islamic

ARABIC PENBOX

  • Sajah bint Habushun ibn Ishandiyar al-Hajjaji. Vert, on a fess gules fimbriated between an Arabic penbox and a lozenge a chalice Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/03, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Evidence of the charges, tinctures, and overall design of this submission.
    • Unsupported: no evidence of fimbriation in Islamic heraldry.

Italian

AZURE FIELD WITH Low-Contrast Charges

  • Fortuné Stykewynd. Azure, a trimount vert issuant from a ford proper, in dexter chief an increscent argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/09)
    • Exception documented: Vert trimounts on azure fields, as well as trimounts issuant from bases.
  • Cristabell Rose Alwin. Azure, a bear rampant Or atop a trimount vert and in chief three roses Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2017/01)
    • Exception documented: Use of vert trimounts on an azure background.

  • Tuathal O’Sheill. Azure, an oak tree between a harp Or and a crane in its vigilance argent, all atop a mount vert. (OSCAR, LoAR 2017/09, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Use of vert bases with charges issuant and other charges in chief, on an azure field.
    • Unsupported: no documentation for tree, harp, and crane in the same setting.

  • Seraphina Delphino. Azure, on a fess gules three fleurs-de-lys argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2018/04)
    • Exception documented: A low-contrast central ordinary bearing high-contrast charges.
  • Gwyneth ferch Aeddan. Azure, an oak tree Or atop a base vert, in chief three mullets of eight points argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2018/11)
    • Exception documented: Use of vert bases with charges issuant and other charges in chief, on an azure field.
  • Sazia de Sarro. Azure, two magpies addorsed tails crossed proper in chief an escallop argent, a ford proper. (OSCAR, LoAR 2019/07, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Sable fields with low-contrast charges.
    • Unsupported: magpies, or birds with their tails crossed, or English-style fords, or this arrangement of charges.
  • Arnfast Rikardsson. Name and device. Azure, a dunghill cock gules within an orle of chain Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2020/02)
    • Exception documented: azure field with animate gules charge. Attested arrangements: low-contrast primary surrounded by high-contrast secondary.
    • Also found: dunghill cock, ordinary of chain, loop of chain.

AZURE FIELD WITH SABLE CHARGES, Low-Contrast Charges on Ordinaries

  • Sandro dei Strozzi da Montefeltro. Azure, a lion sable, overall on a bend argent three fleurs-de-lys Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2019/09)
    • Exception documented: Sable field with low-contrast charges paired with an overall bend with low-contrast charges.

ARGENT FIELD WITH Low-Contrast CHARGEs

  • Giata Magdalena Alberti. Argent, a fess between three mullets of eight points and a fleur-de-lys Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/04)
    • Exception documented: A low-contrast metal on metal central ordinary between low contrast secondary charges.

ARGENT Charge WITH OR TERTIARY

  • Giata Magdalena Alberti. (Fieldless) On a mullet of eight points argent a fleur-de-lys Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/04)
    • Exception documented: An Or tertiary on a complex argent primary charge.
  • Ile du Dragon Dormant, Baronnie de l’. Purpure, on a pale argent a pallet Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/06)
    • Exception documented: Low contrast tertiaries on ordinaries, as well as the use of purpure for the field.

Divided ARGENT AND OR FIELDS WITH COUNTERCHANGING

  • Giata Magdalena Alberti. Per pale argent and Or, a fleur-de-lys counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/04)
    • Exception documented: Complex single charges counterchanged on a low contrast divided two metal field.

  • Beatrice Domenici della Campana. Per fess argent and Or, two roses counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2018/12)
    • Exception documented: Complex single charges counterchanged on a low contrast divided two metal field.
  • Lisette de la Rose. Per pale Or and argent, two chevronels inverted counterchanged. (OSCAR, LoAR 2025/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Low-contrast ordinaries counterchanged over a divided field.
  • Beatrice Domenici della Campana. Per fess argent and Or, two roses counterchanged and a chief checky Or and argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2025/03, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Low-contrast charges counterchanged on a divided field with a low-contrast divided chief.

Divided ARGENT AND OR Charges

  • Juliana de Luna. Gules, six crescents inverted two, two, and two checky argent and sable, for augmentation the dexter chief crescent checky Or and argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2025/01)
  • Exceptions documented: Low-contrast divided charge.

GULES FIELDS WITH Low-Contrast CHARGES

  • Cuthbert Cunnyngham. Gules, a shakefork argent between in base two brown rabbits sejant erect respectant proper. (OSCAR, LoAR 2013/06, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Brown secondaries.
  • Konrad Kauffman von Regensburg. Gules, a demi-fox sable maintaining a banner Or and a sword argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/10)
    • Exception documented: Sable animate charges on gules fields
    • Also found: Demi-animate charges and animate charges maintaining banners and/or swords.

  • Taddea di Avito del Pace. Gules, a goat rampant argent atop a trimount vert and in chief two acorns argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2018/12)
    • Exception documented: A gules field with a vert trimount topped by high-contrast complex primary charges and high-contrast complex secondary charges in chief, and the use of goats, trimounts, and acorns.

  • Audrey Hampton. Gules, on a bend between two wagon wheels argent a horse courant, a bordure sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2021/11, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Gules field with sable bordure around multiple charge groups.
  • Gwenhwyfar Simpson. Gules, an apple tree proper atop a mount vert, atop the mount and surmounting the trunk a boar statant argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2024/01)
    • Exceptions documented: Low-contrast primary charges with high-contrast overall charges. Also found: trees, mounts, boars.

SABLE FIELDS WITH Low-Contrast CHARGES

  • Raffe De Massard. Sable, a bee Or and on a chief embattled gules three fleurs-de-lis Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2017/11, Returned)
    • Exception documented: A sable field with a gules chief with a complex line, each bearing high-contrast charges.
    • Unsupported: embattled chiefs; charged low-contrast complex-line peripheral ordinaries

Vert fields with Low-Contrast Charges

  • Biǫrn Eldiárnsson. Vert, a bear rampant sable within a bordure embattled argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2014/08)
    • Exception documented: A sable animate charge on a vert field, high contrast bordures in combination with low contrast primary charges and complex lines of division.
  • Getulio d’Amalfi. Vert, a bend sinister Or within a bordure gules. (OSCAR, LoAR 2019/09)
    • Exception documented: Vert fields with gules ordinaries; high-contrast ordinaries within low-contrast peripheral ordinaries.
    • Also found: bordures and bends sinister.
  • Yrsa Olfuss. Vert, in fess a bear statant erect sable and an ash tree eradicated argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2021/08, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Mixed metal and color co-primaries.

MULTIPLE-DIVIsions OF MORE THAN TWO TINCTURES

  • Richenda du Jardin. Per pale bendy sinister azure, Or and argent and bendy Or, argent and azure, a bordure compony argent, azure and Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2011/01, LOAR 2011/06)
    • Exception documented: Use of three tinctures in barry, bendy and paly fields, and the use of a three tincture compony, and in the LoAR, low-contrast peripheral ordinaries.
  • Elisabetta Tommaso di Carduci. Party of six azure, vert and Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2025/01, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Party of six with three tinctures.

A ROCK CLEFT BY A RIVER

  • Gilia Maddalena Sofia del Fortuna. Gules, a demi-annulet argent issuant from a rock issuant from base proper cleft palewise by a natural river flowing to base argent. (OSCAR, LOAR 2011/01, RfS)
    • Exception documented: Use of swirling lines to represent a flowing stream, and use of a demi-annulet to represent a bridge.

A CHARGE SUSTAINED BY AN ARM EMBOWED PROPER

  • Giacomo Fornerigo. Or, a baker’s peel bendwise sinister sable charged with three loaves of bread Or sustained by an arm embowed issuant from sinister proper vested sable, a chief rayonny gules. (OSCAR, LOAR 2014/05, RfS)
    • Exception documented: Charges sustained by an arm embowed.

Japanese

ROUNDEL BETWEEN ROUNDELS

  • Amano Zenjirou Nakatsune. Sable, in chief a roundel within six roundels in annulo and in base a barrulet argent. (OSCAR 1, OSCAR 2, LOAR 2016/04, Returned)
    • Exception documented: Use of a larger roundel between smaller roundels in annulo.
    • Unsupported: large roundel surrounded by widely spaced small roundels; single barrulet abased.
  • Hosokawa Gentarou Masahiro. Vert, a roundel between eight roundels in annulo Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/12)
    • Exception documented: Use of a larger roundel between smaller roundels in annulo.

  • Sólveig Þróndardóttir. Badge for Sugawara Miyuki. (Fieldless) An umebachi argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2017/05)
    • Exception documented: Use of a small roundel between larger roundels in annulo.
  • Ii Tomiko. Argent, a cherry blossom between eight cherry blossoms in annulo, a base azure. (OSCAR, LoAR 2024/02)
    • Exceptions documented: Similar charge both as a central primary and surrounding secondaries. Also found: cherry blossoms, bases.

  • Kanamori no Tatsume. Or, an umebachi within an annulet sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2025/03, Returned)
    • Submitted as an IAP, but now allowed under Core Style.
      • Returned for conflict.

mitsutomoe / TOMOE

  • Miura no Matatarou Koreyoshi. Argent, five tomoe in annulo each charged with a plate, all within an annulet sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/03)
    • Exception documented: Use of three tomoe in annulo.
    • Unsupported: Five tomoe, or charged tomoe.
  • Samukawa Mantarou Yukimura. Argent, three tomoe in annulo azure. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/01)
    • Exception documented: Use of three tomoe in annulo with no other charge on the field.

  • Kumagaya Kentarou Masamoto. Sable, six mitsutomoe three and three Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2019/03)
    • Exception documented: Use of mitsutomoe with other charges.

  • Yamamoto Tokutarou Hikaru. Device change. Argent, a mitsutomoe within a well frame sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2019/03)
    • Exception documented: Use of mitsutomoe with other charges.

JAPANESE CRANE

  • Kameshima Zentarou Umakai. Argent, a Japanese crane displayed and in base a bar gemel azure. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/04)
    • Exception documented: Use of the Japanese crane.

BUTTERFLY VOLANT

  • Yoshimizu Kitsutarou Kimimichi. Sable, a butterfly volant fesswise, wings addorsed Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/12)
    • Exception documented: Unusual posture for a butterfly.

Bamboo Enclosure

  • Valentina de la Volpe. (Fieldless) Two feathers in saltire argent within and conjoined to an annulet of bamboo Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2016/10)
    • Exception documented: Annulet of bamboo.

Octagon Voided

  • Inaba Sachiko. Sable, in fess a rabbit salient regardant contourny between two cattails all within an octagon voided argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/07, Returned, Appealed OSCAR, LoAR 2016/03, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Only one example of a voided octagon surrounding one other charge.
    • On appeal, returned under Core Style for lack of examples of surrounded co-primaries.

  • Inaba Sachiko. Badge. Sable, a rabbit courant regardant contourny within an octagon voided argent. (OSCAR, LoAR 2015/07, Returned, Appealed OSCAR, LoAR 2016/11)
    • Unsupported: Only one example of a voided octagon surrounding one other charge.
    • On appeal, accepted under Core Style.

Mixed-Contrast Complex Arrangements

  • Nishikawa Kiyoko. Argent, in pale a demi bellflower Or issuant from a Japanese stream within a mascle sable. (OSCAR, LoAR 2023/06, Returned)
  • Exceptions documented: Argent field with Or charges.
    • Unsupported: Mixed-contrast co-primaries.

  • Nishikawa Kiyoko. Argent, a demi-bellflower Or issuant from a Japanese stream within a mascle Or. (OSCAR, LoAR 2025/02, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Low-contrast co-primaries surrounded by a secondary.

Mesoamerican

FESS EMBOWED TO BASE

  • Ocelotl Moctezuma. Or semy of cartouches sable, a fess embowed to base argent fimbriated gules between four crescents one and three azure. (OSCAR 1, OSCAR 2, LoAR 2016/03)
    • Exception documented: A fess embowed to base.
    • Other elements: crescents; a field semy of cartouches.

Roman

Low-Contrast Charges

  • Gaius Aurelianus Felix. Sable, two dragon’s heads respectant conjoined at the necks to a staff issuant from base azure. (OSCAR, LoAR 2024/02, Returned)
    • Unsupported: Sable field with low-contrast complex charges.