Salubrious Yule Turquoise

Latin salūbris, healthful — adjectival suffix -ous. As a color modifier, salubrious implies a clear-and-healthful-and-fresh quality, the crisp color of Alpine-and-Sea-air health-resort and Mediterranean-coast spa-and-thalassotherapy outdoor environment. Sits at the crisp-and-wholesome end of the grid, parallel to healthful and bracing in usage.

Old Norse jól, winter-solstice. As a color modifier, yule implies a winter-solstice-and-fir-tree quality, the visual register of Norse-and-English winter-solstice fir-and-holly-and-mistletoe candlelit-firelight feast-and-greenery surfaces under deep-winter Northern-Hemisphere late-December candlelight. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to advent and easter 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.