Tincture (heraldry) as the field upon which they rest, with the colours reversed. In the municipal arms of Behnsdorf, Saxony-Anhalt, seen at right, the field is divided with the left half white (argent) and the right half green (vert), and the counterchanged tree is green where it lies on the white part of the field, and white where it lies on the green part. The flag of Maryland is another example of counterchanging. The only U.S. state flag to be directly based on English heraldry, it is the arms of George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore, who founded the colony of Maryland in
Heraldry unique designs, the use of these colours for general purposes has become accepted in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Occasionally one meets with other colours, particularly in continental heraldry, although they are not generally regarded among the standard heraldic colours. Among these are "cendrée", or ash-colour; "brunâtre", or brown; "bleu-céleste" or "bleu de ciel", sky blue; "amaranth" or "columbine", a bright violet-red or pink colour; and "carnation", commonly used to represent flesh in French heraldry. A more recent addition is the use of "copper" as a metal in one or two Canadian coats of arms. There are two basic types