Pragmatic Dux Turquoise

Greek pragmatikós, of business / practical — adjectival suffix -ic. As a color modifier, pragmatic implies a clear-and-purpose-fit-and-no-nonsense quality where the hue carries the visual register of straightforward-utilitarian-and-functional decision-making. Sits at the crisp-and-functional end of the grid, parallel to practical and functional in usage.

Latin dux, leader-or-general. As a color modifier, dux implies a Latin-leader-and-Roman-general-and-Doge quality, the visual register of Roman-dux-and-Venetian-Doge hand-Latin-leader-and-Roman-general-and-Doge Roman-dux-and-Venetian-Doge-and-Renaissance-condottiere dux-and-Latin-leader surfaces under Roman-dux-and-Venetian-Doge-and-Renaissance-condottiere Republican-Rome-and-Venetian-Doge's-Palace leader-and-general-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to pater and virtus in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.