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
Orange (heraldry) (red) and dots (yellow). A color used for orange in armorials should be distinct from both Gules (red) and Or (yellow), but also from Tenné (light brown) and carnation (flesh-colour). Orange (heraldry) In heraldry, orange is a rarely used tincture except in Catalan, South African, and American Military heraldries. Unless in English heraldry, Orange is not to be confused with tenné ("tanné"), which depicts the color of tanned leather and then slowly became a tincture of its own, along with carnation used for white human skin. Orange didn't receive a hatching pattern during medieval and renaissance times, and first was