The colour silver (or white) is given what name in heraldry?
Fountain (heraldry) which should be depicted but a roundel like this. Syke, an alternative name for fountain, is a Northern English dialect word for "well" and features on the canting arms of the Sykes family. Fountain (heraldry) Fountain or syke is in the terminology of heraldry a roundel depicted as a roundel barry wavy argent and azure, that is, containing alternating horizontal wavy bands of silver (or white) and blue. Because the fountain consists equally of parts in a metal and a colour, its use is not limited by the rule of tincture as are the other roundels. The fountain may be
Carnation (heraldry) Carnation (heraldry) In heraldry, carnation is a tincture, the name for skin colour, more exactly the colour of pale or white human skin (i.e., pale pinkish peach). It is rare in coats of arms in Anglophone countries but quite frequent on the European continent, in France in particular, derived from widespread use in German heraldry. In its rare appearances in the Anglophone heraldries, it is not only used for European flesh tones as in "a crown rayonny or supported by two cubit arms, dexter carnation, sinister skeletal proper" (crest of The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists) but