[antir-heralds] Highlighting?

[Craig Simons]

Teceangl wrote:

If you want to be really authentic, do not outline
anything in black when you render the armory, or if
you do, make it totally minimal, just to pick out
detail.  The black outline is a SCAdianism and not
part of 'real' heraldry. I was shocked when someone
once asked me how thick the outlines on her embroidery
project needed to be, she was shocked when I replied,
"Nonexistant."

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heh heh...  It's funny how "modern" ideas of art creep
so surreptitiously into how we view everything.  I'm
glad there's no black outline to eliminate from my
device.

In a similar vein, when I was really young, I used to
wonder if there was a black outline around everything
(literally: EVERYTHING you could see and look at in
life!)  I used to stare at my toys, the table, coffee
cups, trying to see that thin black line that
separated the item from the other things around it. 
After a couple of years, I determined there was no
black line, and thus black lines are for drawings not
meant to be realistic.  At that point, I was
heartbroken thinking that Mickey Mouse and Woody
Woodpecker were not real, but were in fact, just
drawings.  (About 2 months later I figured out how
animation worked and was astounded!)

Ahh, children.  What will they think of next?

-Valentino