About Family Creed Generator

Family Creed Generator is a free tool for families to write a creed, choose a motto and design a heraldic crest together, then print it. It is open source and runs entirely in your browser.

How it works

Each person answers six questions privately on one phone: their top values, an animal, a color, what the family loves doing together, what it does when things get hard, and how it hopes to be remembered. The answers are counted, never shown person by person. From those counts the site assembles three options: a creed from a library of hand-written lines in three tones, motto options in English and Latin, and a crest drawn from traditional heraldic layouts and an original set of symbols. The family votes, and one organizer edits the winner.

No artificial intelligence runs when you use it. Every line, motto and symbol was written or drawn in advance, so the same answers always give the same result, and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Privacy

• Your answers and designs are stored only in your browser (local storage). Clearing your browser data deletes them.
• There are no accounts, no uploads and no advertising.
• Share links carry the finished design inside the link itself, after the #, which browsers never send to the web server. Only the final creed, motto and crest are in the link, never anyone's individual answers.
• Invite links for relatives work the same way: their answers travel only in the link they send back to you.
• The site does not use analytics.

Honest notes

• The crest is a family emblem you design, not a historical coat of arms or a grant from any heraldic authority. In Scotland, coats of arms are regulated by the Court of the Lord Lyon; if you live there and want official arms, apply to them.
• Simple designs can resemble arms that someone has used before. Thousands of families share plain designs like “blue, a gold lion”; adding your motto, a second symbol or a border makes yours distinct.
• Traditional meanings of colors and symbols come mostly from W. Cecil Wade, The Symbolism of Heraldry (1898), and later popular sources. They are associations, not rules.
• Latin mottos use classical phrases and simple constructions (“Amore et Fide”, by love and faith). We check them carefully, but if you plan to engrave one in stone, ask a Latin teacher too.

Credits and licenses

• Code, creed lines, mottos and every heraldic symbol on this site: original work, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. Your designs are yours.
• Fonts: Cinzel and EB Garamond, both under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 (Cinzel license, EB Garamond license).
• Source code and issue tracker: github.com/theguysaccount/family-creed-generator. Found a typo, a wrong Latin ending or a broken link? Open an issue there.