Credit where it's due

The short version

The charges you can put on your coat of arms — the dragons, the axes, the little flaming tridents — were drawn by other people and given away on terms that ask for a credit. This is the credit.

RPG Awesome

Most of the emblem library comes from RPG Awesome, a fantasy icon set by Daniela Howe and Ivan Montiel. The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and the CSS that ships with it under the MIT licence.

We don't actually use the font. The outlines were pulled out of it once, turned into plain SVG paths and normalised to the same box as everything else here, so that a charge can be painted in whichever tincture you picked rather than whatever colour a font happens to be. That's a derivative work, which is why this page exists.

game-icons.net

RPG Awesome's artwork is itself built on game-icons.net, an enormous, genuinely remarkable library of game iconography released under CC BY 3.0. Attribution flows downhill through derivatives, so the original artists are owed the credit as much as anyone: Lorc, Delapouite, Skoll, Willdabeast, Faithtoken, John Colburn, Felbrigg, Carl Olsen and the many others who contributed to it.

If you're building anything at all that needs icons of swords, potions, tentacles or moon phases, go there first. It's a better resource than it has any right to be for free.

The class emblems

The thirteen class emblems — artificer through wizard — aren't ours either, and this page used to say they were. They're from Intrinsical's D&D 5e Icon Set by David Kor Kian Wei, released under CC BY-SA 4.0.

We pulled the outlines out, normalised them to the same box as everything else and made them fillable so you can wear one in whichever tincture you picked. That's a derivative work, which is exactly the situation this page exists for.

ShareAlike matters here in a way plain attribution doesn't. CC BY-SA says derivatives go out under the same licence, so those thirteen emblems and the versions of them we generated are CC BY-SA 4.0 as well. That's not a footnote we're burying — it's the deal, and it's a fair one for artwork somebody gave away.

What's ours

Not the artwork. What is ours is everything else about a coat of arms: the shapes, the divisions, the tinctures, and the rules about which of them can be told apart from which. That part is geometry rather than drawing, and it's why a coat of arms costs you nothing to own.

We got this wrong

Until August 2026 this page claimed the class emblems "were drawn for this project and are ours." They weren't, and they aren't. Nobody was misled on purpose — the line was written from memory rather than from the commit that imported them — but a credits page that gets a credit wrong is worse than no credits page, so it's recorded here rather than quietly corrected.

What this means for you

Nothing, practically. Wear whatever you like. The licences bind us, not you — we're the ones redistributing the artwork, and this page is us doing the one thing they ask in return.