I am now in the off season for my reenactment troop (We take the entire holiday season off to avoid scheduling conflicts). However recently a suggestion was made to expand our allowed colors in heraldic use. The recommendations were made to allow Tawny, Brunatre, Murrey, Sanguine, and Blau de Celest. I have been holding the traditionalist perspective of only the basics of Sable, Gules, Azure, Purpure, Vert, Or, and Argent. My logic is that Tawny, Murrey, and Sanguine are all considered stains and are only acceptable for use as livery colors. Brunatre is a color that should only be used in things that are best blazoned "proper"; or at least that's my opinion. Blau de Celest is a rather modern occurrence, and the only use I can find is some rowing team that has two oars in saltire one bladed regular blue and one light blue. There has also been a recommendation to use grey to represent anything blazoned as silver and white as the representation for argent, which just makes my brain scream. The idea is to allow a greater variety to our heraldic compositions, but I like the basic pallet. I don't want to seem mean, but most of these suggestions sound like they were made by people who are less than well studied on the subject. Does anyone here have any thoughts on the matter?