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The heraldic tincture blue, one of the colours.
Also known as: Blue
Blue, shown in uncoloured engraving by horizontal hatching lines. Blazon does not specify a shade: azure covers everything from pale to very dark blue, and the choice is the artist's.
The heraldic tincture blue, classed as a colour.
Shown in uncoloured engraving by close horizontal hatching lines under the Petra Sancta convention.
Blazon fixes the tincture and not the shade. Two artists may paint the same azure very differently and both are correct, which is why armorial paintings of the same coat vary considerably.
A blue tincture, shown in uncoloured engraving by close horizontal hatching lines.