Azure,
First state the field tincture. Or specify a division such as Per pale Argent and Gules.
✦ The reverse laboratory
Words into arms.
Write a simple blazon and inspect the shield it produces. Change a tincture, figure, or placement and compare the result with the instruction you changed.
✦ The decoder
Describe the shield.
✦ Ready to interpret.
This interpreter knows only the core grammar taught in the introductory academy. More complicated historical blazons need a human herald.
Try a specimen.
The translation · Original SVG
Grammar becomes image
a fess Or
Describe an ordinary and its tincture. To place charges on that ordinary, use on a fess.
three mullets Gules.
Name the charge, the number, and its tincture. This teaching interpreter supports several familiar charges.
A deliberately limited translator.
This site is not claiming to parse the full, historically variable grammar of heraldry. Unsupported forms are declined instead of guessed. For advanced reading, consult the blazon lesson, our lexicon, and the appropriate primary sources.