Hygienic Loggia Teal

Greek hygieinós, healthful — derived from Hygieia (goddess of health). As a color modifier, hygienic implies a clear-and-medical-clean quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern clinical-and-hospital interior-architecture surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to sanitary and sterile in usage.

Italian loggia, roofed-open-gallery. As a color modifier, loggia implies an Italian-and-Mediterranean-roofed-open-gallery quality, the visual register of Italian-Renaissance-and-Mediterranean-loggia hand-built roofed-open-gallery loggia-and-arcade-and-pergola architectural surfaces under Italian-Renaissance-and-Mediterranean loggia-arcade afternoon light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to atrium and stoa 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.