The value of the text of a heraldic blazon in our digital age is that such text is searchable. As our emblem does not conform to the antiquated rules of British heraldry, we had to be inventive with the blazon for our emblem.



Old-Style Blazon

Escutcheon (scudo rotondo): Sans helm and sans mantling, a moon azure in plenitude sans visage, charged with three crescents Borromean-interlaced sable, between horns of each crescent an aumkara sable rotated with Devanagari "3" outward from fess point

Supporters: Standing on keys, pegasi segreant

Crest: An acorn pierced by schiavonas in saltire with pommels near eyes of the pegasi, with stems touching the acorn an oak leaf dexter and sinister, clutching the acorn from above a horned owl affronty with wings displayed and elevated

Banner: Draped over the keys a banner advising "AL AMO KAJ SCIO"



New-Style Blazonry

A blazon is codified text which describes an image such that the image can be rendered from the text. That very same description can be applied to a computer file format known as SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics). As such, SVG can be loosely considered as a modern analogue to heraldic blazonry.

SVG "blazon" of our emblem:


SVG terminology contains words for geometric shapes such as rectangles, but does not [yet] contain terminology for heraldic shapes such as "pegasus segreant". A pegasus can still be rendered using SVG, but it currently requires sequences of smaller shapes or numerical data (as shown above). SVG is an implementaion of a technology called XML (Extensible Markup Language); being explicitly extensible by design, it is possible to create a specialized extension of the SVG technology which would include terminology for heraldic shapes.