Mapped Amor Lagoon

Latin mappa, cloth / napkin — past-participle of map. As a color modifier, mapped implies a clear-and-cartographic-and-surveyed quality, the crisp color of Ordnance-Survey-and-USGS scientific-and-cadastral cartographic-and-topographic mapping-and-projection. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to plotted and surveyed in usage.

Latin amor, love. As a color modifier, amor implies a Latin-love-and-amor-vincit-omnia quality, the visual register of Vergilian-amor-and-Catullus-amor hand-Latin-love-and-amor-vincit-omnia Vergilian-amor-and-Catullus-amor-and-Ovid-Ars-Amatoria amor-and-Latin-love surfaces under Vergilian-amor-and-Catullus-amor-and-Ovid-Ars-Amatoria Augustan-Rome-and-Renaissance-Italy Roman-love-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to vita and via 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.