File talk:Wappen Strasburg (Uckermark).svg

Gray shield

"ein silberner Schild" (a silver shield, in English): in heraldry, the silver is usually represented by the white color, and not by the gray. Giro720 (talk) 03:08, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

hey Giro i know the coa is in fact not perfect, it has some improvements, at the blue water waves, it'll need some work, so it can become lower size. I'm not sure, the silver is really presented in white color? If that is so, then it is my fault, the file is too large, i do not know if it's because I always have a template (picture) import? Oh and sorry for my worst english, hope you can me understand. If you read this, please try to cleanup the svg code, if you can. Thank you. Abani79 (talk) 11:41, 13 August 2011 (UTC)

Don't worry =). In heraldry, the colors (not the tonality) usually are limited to this basic set, where the white represent the "silver" (the metal, not the color) like here, the gray represent iron/stone walls (sometimes the gray is used to generate an effect of depth or light, like this one, but it's not the case here). But when wee see things like this or the Strasburg website wich shows a gray shield, I don't know exactly what to do... that's why I left the comment above. But this is not an isolated case; there are some examples where the website use the gray color and the uploaded file use white: WBüren (Westfalen), Anklam, etc. By the way, good work with the eagle. Giro720 (talk) 14:56, 13 August 2011 (UTC)