User:Jean-Mahmoud

Hello all !

John-Mahmud here. Passionate about color and organized colors, which naturally led me to heraldry (where you'll see most of me) and public transportation networks (on which I sometimes delve).

I create blazons available on Wikimedia, mainly for french cities. I use the Projet:Blasons' Guidelines on blazon drawing, as expectable for french cities :
 * Using only french shield shapes (ancient or modern) for french cities and people, using Projet:Blasons's shields for foreign arms. These incorporate flat colours, with an overall shade layer meant to offer a "3D" effect.
 * Using the colors specified by the Projet:Blasons and used in France. I use all colours available (including Sanguine, Murrey, Celeste, Tenné, Orange, etc.), as they are given by the french palette. Nope, fellow brits : Tawny and Orange are two different colors !
 * Using correct proportions for ordinaries : 1/3 for bends, fesses, pales, etc. ; 1/6 for bendlets, crosslets, etc. ; 1/9 for fillets.

If you're looking for someone to turn your virtual shield into reality, I know a real-life shield maker who can construct your own medieval shield, with leather straps for hand usage or wooden handles for display.

Feel free to hit my talk page for edit or off-topic discussion instead of using the revision comments section and starting edit wars. I'd rather discuss than bite.