Drafted Kin Lagoon

Old English draht, draft — past-participle of draft. As a color modifier, drafted implies a clear-and-line-and-measured quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern hand-drafted architectural-and-engineering studio-drawing precision-tool-rendered lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to drawn and plotted in usage.

Old English cynn, kindred. As a color modifier, kin implies a blood-relative-and-extended-family quality, the visual register of pre-modern-English-and-Anglo-Saxon hand-built family-hearth-and-meadhall-and-grandfather-clock blood-relation surfaces under Anglo-Saxon-and-pre-modern-English family-hearth-and-meadhall household firelight. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to clan and tribe in usage.

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.