Plotted Anise Teal

Old English plot, small piece of ground — past-participle of plot. As a color modifier, plotted implies a clear-and-coordinate-mapped quality, the crisp color of Cartesian-and-graph-paper coordinate-plotted scientific-and-engineering data-visualization plot-line. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to mapped and surveyed in usage.

Latin anīsum, sweet-licorice-seed. As a color modifier, anise implies a sweet-licorice-and-Mediterranean-aniseed quality, the visual register of Sicilian-and-Provençal-anise hand-sweet-licorice-and-Mediterranean-aniseed Sicilian-and-Provençal-anise-and-Pernod-Ricard anise-and-sweet-licorice surfaces under Sicilian-and-Provençal-anise-and-Pernod-Ricard Marseille-and-Sicily-and-Pastis Mediterranean-licorice-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to clove and caraway in usage.

Anas crecca, the small dabbling duck whose male in breeding plumage sports a chestnut head crossed by a glossy green-blue stripe. The color refers to that stripe — the iridescent panel just behind the eye: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical depth of structural color rather than pigment. Cooler than cypress, warmer than cerulean, with the ornithological specificity of a color named for one feather of one bird.