Compartment (heraldry) Compartment (heraldry) In heraldry, a compartment is a design placed under the shield, usually rocks, a grassy mount ("mount vert"), or some sort of other landscape upon which the supporters are depicted as standing. Care must be taken to distinguish true compartments from items upon which supporters are merely resting one or more feet, or, sometimes, mere heraldic badges or pure decoration under the shield, and, conversely, care must also be taken in very unusual cases such as the coat of arms of Belize, in which what may be taken to be a crest, the mahogany tree rising above the
Tincture (heraldry) Coat of Arms. An example of "colour on colour" is the arms of Albania, with its sable two-headed eagle on a gules field. The "rule of tincture" has had an influence reaching far beyond heraldry. It has been applied to the design of flags, so that the flag of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach was modified to conform to the rule. When a charge or group of charges is placed across a division line, variation, or ordinary, it may be "counterchanged" (Fr. "contre-changé", but modern "de l'un en l'autre", Ger. "verwechselte Farben" or "verschränkte Farben"), meaning that the charges are divided the same way