Warm Dill Kingfisher

Old English wearm, of moderate heat — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues that read as containing red, orange, or yellow undertones. Warm gray, warm white: not necessarily a temperature, but the optical impression of a slight red-orange shift. Sits across the crisp and neutral buckets.

Old English dile, aromatic-fern-leaf-herb. As a color modifier, dill implies a feathery-and-fresh-and-pickling quality, the visual register of Scandinavian-and-pickling-dill hand-feathery-and-fresh-and-pickling Scandinavian-and-pickling-dill-and-Polish-Eastern-European dill-and-feathery-and-fresh-and-pickling surfaces under Scandinavian-and-pickling-dill-and-Polish-Eastern-European Stockholm-and-Gdansk-and-Riga-pickling-jar Baltic-pickling-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to chive and anise in usage.

The family Alcedinidae — particularly Alcedo atthis, the European common kingfisher whose iridescent turquoise-blue plumage gives the color its name. The color refers to a male European kingfisher's wing: a saturated, slightly cool deep blue-green with the iridescent satin finish of structurally colored feathers.