{"id":622,"date":"2026-05-29T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flags.page\/en\/glossary\/metal-heraldic\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T10:19:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:19:29","slug":"metal-heraldic","status":"publish","type":"term","link":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/glossary\/metal-heraldic\/","title":{"rendered":"Metal (heraldic)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A **metal** in heraldic tincture is one of the two pale tinctures, Or (gold\/yellow) and Argent (silver\/white). The rule of tincture forbids placing a metal upon a metal or a colour upon a colour, so flag designs derived from heraldry typically alternate metal with colour. The doctrine is not absolute: certain flags, notably the Vatican (gold and white) and the historic banner of Jerusalem (silver and gold), deliberately break the rule for symbolic effect.<\/p>\n<p>**Example**: The white and yellow of the flag of Vatican City are both heraldic metals, an exception to the rule of tincture justified by the unique status of the Holy See.<\/p>\n<p>**See also**: [color-heraldic](\/glossary\/color-heraldic\/), [tincture](\/glossary\/tincture\/), [or](\/glossary\/or\/), [argent](\/glossary\/argent\/)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-622","term","type-term","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/term"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/term"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flags.page\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}