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SENA section A.3.B.1. provides the following definition:
Proper is a term used for a charge in its "natural" or "standard" tincture. ... A list of proper tinctures is found in the Glossary of Terms. ... In general, charges that do not have a heraldically defined proper may be described as proper when a normal person would be able to color them appropriately from knowing only the sort of item with no further color description.
| Acanthus: | Green |
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| Acorn: | Brown (Two Acorns Slips Conjoined Issuant from a Trimount, Acorn); brown nut, green leaves (Acorn Slipped & Leaved) |
| Aloe Vera: | Green |
| Angel: | Only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Arch: | Argent stone (Pair of Arches); only if material is blazoned; a stone item is argent (Arch Stooped, Arch); only if material is blazoned; a stone item is argent, a wooden item is brown (Arch Stooped with Open Doors, Arch with Open Doors) |
| Arm: | Only if skin tone is blazoned (Arm Couped, Arm Couped Maintaining a Dagger, Arm Couped Maintaining a Torch, Arm Couped and Vested Maintaining a Dagger, Arm Couped with Fingers Extended, Arm Embowed Maintaining a Scimitar, Arm Fesswise Maintaining A Club, Arm In Armor Fesswise Embowed Brandishing A Sword, Arm Vested Fesswise, Arm Vested Fesswise Maintaining a Gemmed Ring, Arm Vested Fesswise With A Hand Of Benediction, Arm in Armor Embowed, Cubit Arm, Cubit Arm in Armor, Cubit Arm with Fingers Extended, Gloved Arm Fesswise Couped, Pair of Arms Vested, Pair of Arms Vested Maintaining an Annulet, Two Arms Issuant with Hands Clasped, Two Arms Vested Issuant with Hands Clasped, Arm Fesswise Couped Maintaining A Scarf, Arm Embowed); only if skin tone is blazoned; clothing must be explicitly blazoned (Arm Vested, Cubit Arm Vested) |
| Armor Stand: | Brown wood |
| Ash: | Brown wood and green leaves |
| Aspen: | Green leaves |
| Auk: | Sable with argent belly |
| Banana: | Or |
| Barrel: | Brown wood |
| Bauble: | Brown wood, argent or pink face, explicitly-blazoned vestments |
| Bear: | Brown fur |
| Beaver: | Brown |
| Bee: | Body Or with sable stripes, wings argent |
| Beech: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Belladona: | Purple flowers, green leaves |
| Bend: | Or |
| Birch: | Green leaves |
| Boar: | Brown |
| Board: | Brown wood |
| Boardwalk: | Brown wood |
| Bone: | Argent |
| Book: | Argent pages, brown leather cover |
| Boot: | Brown leather |
| Branch: | Brown wood |
| Bread: | Brown |
| Breast: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, goutes explicitly blazoned |
| Broom: | Vert |
| Bucket: | Brown wood |
| Bush: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Caduceus: | Brown wooden staff, green serpents |
| Caravel: | Brown wood |
| Carriage Frame: | Brown wood |
| Castle: | Gray or argent stone |
| Catapult: | Brown wood |
| Cattail: | Green stem and leaves, brown head |
| Chair: | Brown wood |
| Cherry: | Red fruit, green stem and leaves |
| Chest: | Brown wood |
| Child: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, sable hair |
| Chough: | Black with red beak and legs |
| Chrysanthemum: | Green |
| Churn: | Brown wood |
| Cinquefoil (Shape): | One lobe to chief |
| Cleaver: | Blade argent, handle Or or brown wood |
| Clove: | Brown |
| Club: | Brown wood |
| Columbine: | Blue petals, green stem |
| Cornucopia: | Brown, with fruits in their natural colors |
| Créquier: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Cross (Charge): | Brown wood |
| Crow: | Sable |
| Crucifix: | Brown wood; human figure must be blazoned |
| Cucumber: | Vert |
| Cutlass: | Blade argent, hilt Or |
| Daffodil: | Yellow bloom, green stem |
| Dagger: | Blade argent, hilt Or |
| Daisy: | Argent seeded Or |
| Dandelion: | Or slipped vert |
| Doe: | Brown |
| Dolphin: | Gray (Natural Dolphin); green with red fins (Winged Dolphin, Dolphin, Dolphin Haurient) |
| Door: | Only if material is blazoned; a wooden item is brown |
| Dove: | Argent, with gules (or pink) feet and beak |
| Drakkar: | Brown wood, sails blazoned separately |
| Drawbridge: | Brown wood |
| Drum: | Brown wood, argent skin |
| Drumstick: | Brown wood |
| Elder: | Brown wood, green leaves; berries are typically purple or blue, but some varieties are red or white |
| Elderflower: | Brown wood, green leaves; berries are typically purple or blue, but some varieties are red or white |
| Elephant: | Argent, or gray with white tusks |
| Elk: | Brown |
| Falcon: | Brown |
| Fig: | Brown wood, green leaves; figs come in many colors so the tincture of the fruit must be explicitly blazoned (Fig Sprig Fructed); green (Fig Leaf) |
| Firebrand: | Brown wood, flames alternating gules and Or |
| Firewood: | Brown |
| Fist: | Only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Flame: | Alternating tongues of gules and Or |
| Flamingo: | Pink or red |
| Flax: | Blue or purple flowers, green leaves and stems |
| Fool: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, costume blazoned separately |
| Foot: | Only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Fountain: | Gray or argent stone |
| Fox: | Gules, with argent tail tip; often has sable or argent socks, and may have an argent chest, but these are unblazonable details |
| Frame: | Brown wood |
| Garlic: | Bulb argent, stem and leaves vert |
| Gate: | Brown wood |
| Gentian: | Azure flowers, green leaves |
| Gillyflower: | Green leaves, with a red bloom |
| Ginkgo: | Green |
| Gorgon: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, serpents blazoned separately |
| Grape: | Green leaves |
| Grenade: | Sphere sable, flames alternately or and gules |
| Hammer: | Sable head and brown wood handle |
| Hand: | Only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Handgun: | Brown wood, black metal |
| Hautboy: | Brown wood |
| Hayfork: | Brown wood |
| Hazel: | Brown nuts and stems, green leaves |
| Heather: | Green leaves and stems, flowers may be white, pink, or purple |
| Hemp: | Green leaves (Sprig of Hemp); vert (Hemp Leaf) |
| Hercules: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, sable hair, golden lion, brown wooden club |
| Hod: | Brown wood |
| Holly: | Green (Holly Leaf); green leaves, red fruit (Three Holly Leaves In Pall) |
| Hop: | Green |
| Hulk: | Brown wood |
| Ivy: | Green leaves (Ivy Leaf); green leaves, brown wood (Ivy Vine, Wreath Of Ivy, Wreath of Ivy) |
| Janus: | Only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Juniper: | Green stem and leaves, blue berries |
| Kettle Hook: | Black iron |
| Keystone: | Grey stone |
| Knife: | Blade argent, handle Or or brown wood |
| Ladybird: | Gules marked sable |
| Lady's Mantle: | Green leaves |
| Lamb: | Argent, haloed Or, bearing a banner argent marked with a cross gules |
| Laurel: | Green |
| Lavender: | Purple flowers, green stem |
| Leek: | Bulb argent, stem and leaves vert |
| Leg: | Only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Lemon: | Gold fruit, green leaf |
| Lettuce: | Vert |
| Lilac: | Purple flowers, green stem and leaves |
| Linden: | Green (Three Linden Leaves Conjoined In Pall); green leaves (Linden Branch, Linden Branch of Three Leaves Throughout Bendwise, Linden Leaf Inverted, Linden Leaf Inverted Slipped to Base, Linden Branch Twined on Itself, Linden Leaf, Linden Tree Eradicated); green leaves, brown trunk (Linden Leaf Issuant from a Ragged Staff, Linden Tree, Linden Tree Issuant from Base, Linden Tree Eradicated) |
| Lion: | Or |
| Lymphad: | Brown wood |
| Magpie: | Sable, with argent belly and wing tips |
| Mallet: | Sable head and brown wood handle |
| Mallow: | Green leaves and stems, flowers purple or white |
| Man: | Only if skin tone is blazoned (Hooded Man's Head Couped at the Shoulders, Man's Head Couped, Man's Head Couped Maintaining a Crown, Man's Head Couped at the Shoulders Wearing a Hat, Man's Head Wearing a Hat Issuant from Base, Man's Head Couped Maintaining a Hat); only if skin tone is blazoned, leaves vert (Savage's Head Affronty); only if skin tone is blazoned, sable hair (Armed Demi-Man Drawing a Bow, Armed Man, Demi-Man Vested, Hooded Man Maintaining a Bowl and Staff, Man Hooded and Robed with Arms Extended, Man In A Boat Holding Arrows Inverted, Man Robed, Man Seated Upon a Throne, Man Vested and Maintaining a Scythe, Man's Head Cabossed, Nude Man, Man Vested); only if skin tone is blazoned, sable sable (Man's Head Couped at the Shoulders); skin brown, sable hair (Moor's Head Couped at the Shoulders) |
| Mandrake: | Green plant, pink or argent skin |
| Maple: | Green leaves (Maple Leaf); green leaves, brown wood (Sprig of Maple Leaves, Maple Leaf) |
| Melusine: | Tail green; human portion only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Mermaid: | Human half only if skin tone is blazoned, tail vert (Mermaid); tail green; human portion only if skin tone is blazoned (Mermaid In Her Vanity, Mermaid Maintaining a Harp, Mermaid in Her Modesty, Mermaid) |
| Merman: | Tail green; human portion only if skin tone is blazoned |
| Mill: | Gray or argent stone |
| Mistletoe: | Green foliage, red berries |
| Mole: | Brown |
| Monk: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, sable hair |
| Moor: | Skin brown, sable hair |
| Moorcock: | Black with white markings |
| Mount: | Vert |
| Mountain: | Vert |
| Mulberry: | Green foliage |
| Needle: | Brown wood |
| Nettle: | Green |
| Nopal: | Green with red or purple flowers and fruit |
| Oak: | Brown wood, green leaves, brown acorns (Oak Sprig, Oak Sprig Fructed, Oak Tree, Oak Tree Eradicated, Oak Tree Fructed, Oak Tree Fructed and Eradicated); green leaves (Six Oak Leaves In Annulo, Oak Leaf) |
| Oar: | Brown wood |
| Obelisk: | Argent stone |
| Olive: | Brown wood, green leaves, green fruit (Olive Tree, Olive Branch Fructed); green (Olive, Olive Slipped and Leaved) |
| Onion: | Bulb explicitly blazoned, stem and leaves vert |
| Orange: | Brown wood, green leaves, orange fruit |
| Otter: | Brown, perhaps; best to blazon explicitly |
| Owl: | Brown, unless owl is blazoned as a type with distinctive coloration (e |
| Paintbrush: | Brown wood handle, sable bristles |
| Palm: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Pea: | Green |
| Peacock: | Azure and vert (Peacock Sword Feather, Peacock Feather); blue and green (Peacock One Leg Raised, Peacock In His Pride, Peacock) |
| Pear: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Penguin: | Black body, white belly and markings |
| Per Chevron: | Green leaves, brown trunk |
| Pine: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Pitchfork: | Brown wood |
| Plane: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Poplar: | Green leaves, brown stems |
| Poppinjay: | Green with red beak and details |
| Porcupine: | Brown |
| Pretzel: | Brown |
| Puffin: | Belly argent, wings sable, beak and legs Or |
| Quatrefoil (Shape): | Crosswise (Quatrefoil (Shape) Voided); one lobe to chief (Quatrefoil (Shape)) |
| Quince: | Gold with green stem and leaves |
| Rabbit: | Brown |
| Rake: | Brown wood |
| Rapier: | Blade argent, hilt Or |
| Raven: | Sable |
| Reindeer: | Brown |
| Rod: | Brown wood |
| Rose: | Gules, barbed vert, seeded Or |
| Rowan: | Brown wood, red berries (Cluster of Rowan Berries); green leaves and stem (Sprig of Rowan Leaves); green leaves, brown wood, red berries (Rowan Tree, Rowan Tree Eradicated) |
| Rue: | Green leaves and stem |
| Saddle: | Brown leather |
| Saracen: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, sable hair |
| Savage: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, leaves vert |
| Scimitar: | Blade argent, hilt Or |
| Scoop: | Brown wood |
| Sepulcher Stone: | Argent stone |
| Seraph: | Only if skin tone is blazoned; red hair, and rainbow-colored wings |
| Shoe: | Brown leather |
| Shovel: | Brown wood |
| Shuttle: | Brown wood |
| Siege Tower: | Argent or gray |
| Skeleton: | Argent |
| Skull: | Argent |
| Skunk: | Sable marked argent |
| Smoking Pipe: | Brown wood |
| Spade: | Brown wood |
| Spindle: | Brown wood, thread blazoned separately |
| Sprig: | Green |
| Staff: | Brown wood |
| Stag: | Brown |
| Stool: | Brown wood |
| Strawberry: | Green leaves (Strawberry Leaf); green leaves, red fruit (Strawberry Plant); red fruit, green stem (Strawberry) |
| Sunflower: | Yellow petals, brown or black seeds, green leaves and stem |
| Sword: | Blade argent, hilt Or |
| Tabacco: | Green leaves, flower color varies |
| Table: | Brown wood |
| Tail: | Or |
| Thistle: | Green leaves and ball, with a purple (or sometimes red) bloom |
| Thorn: | Brown wood |
| Thyrsus: | Brown wood, wreathed vert |
| Tongue: | Gules |
| Tooth: | Argent |
| Tower: | Argent or gray |
| Trammel Hook: | Black iron |
| Tree: | Brown wood (Tree Trunk Eradicated, Tree Blasted, Tree Stump Eradicated, Tree Blasted and Eradicated); brown wood, green leaves (Hurst of Trees Issuant from a Mount, Tree Eradicated, Tree Eradicated Roots and Branches Nowed, Tree Fructed, Tree Issuant From A Mount, Hurst of Trees Couped, Tree) |
| Trireme: | Brown wood, sails blazoned separately |
| Tub: | Brown wood |
| Turnip: | Green leaves, root purple on top and white below |
| Tusk: | Argent, or gray with white tusks (Elephant's Tusk); brown (Boar's Tusk) |
| Viking: | Only if skin tone is blazoned, hair yellow |
| Wagon: | Brown wood |
| Wall: | Gray or argent stone |
| War Hammer: | Sable head and brown wood handle |
| War Wagon: | Brown wood |
| Wasp: | Unstated, but may follow that of the bee, body Or with sable stripes, wings argent |
| Well: | Gray or argent stone |
| Wheel: | Brown wood |
| Willow: | Brown wood, green leaves |
| Wing: | Body Or with sable stripes, wings argent |
| Woman: | Only if skin tone is blazoned (Nude Woman, Nude Woman's Head Couped at the Shoulders, Woman Cloaked and Hooded, Woman Issuant from Base, Woman Mounted on a Bear Passant, Woman's Head Couped, Woman's Head Couped Maintaining a Crown and Veil, Woman's Head Couped Maintaining a Fillet and Veil, Woman's Head Couped and Hooded Facing Dexter, Woman's Head Couped at the Shoulders, Woman); only if skin tone is blazoned, costume blazoned separately (Woman's Head Couped at the Shoulders); only if skin tone is blazoned, sable hair (Woman's Head Coifed and Couped at the Shoulders) |
| Wool Comb: | Brown wood |
| Wound: | Gules |
| Wreath: | Green |
| Zulfikar: | Blade argent, hilt Or |
