Coat of arms of Täby
Täby’s arms show a rounded silver cross on blue.
Swedish description in the Heraldica record
I blått fält ett avrundat korsat kors av silver.
This is the Swedish description in the Heraldica record. How it was composed and whether it is an official blazon have not been independently verified here. The editorial text below is based on the linked municipal source.
Designers
- Vladimir A. Sagerlund
Registration and history
- 30 December 1937: Royal confirmation on
- 11 January 1974: Registered at the National Board of Patents and Registration
The arms and their blazon
The municipal graphic profile says the cross is based on the Dagmar cross on the Risbyle runestone. The arms were established in 1937.
Source: Täby kommun: Grafisk profil
Background in the municipal sources
The municipality connects the motif with the local runestone. The blazon does not prescribe one particular modern drawing style.
Source: Täby kommun: Grafisk profil
Heraldic elements
The heraldic elements are identified using HERO, a heraldry ontology published through Finland's Finto service. It provides structured terminology for describing coats of arms and their components. The list describes the structure of the arms, not the symbolic meaning of its elements.
- escutcheon
- cross crosslet
- field
- Argent
- Azure
- unpartitioned
Sources and image rights
Heraldica / National Archives of Finland · Wikidata
Image licence: CC BY-SA 3.0
Image source and credit: National Archives of Sweden / Vladimir Sagerlund
Original image. The image has been resized and converted to WebP. The derivative retains the original image’s licence.
