Plain Fur Verdigris

Latin planus, flat, level — used as a color modifier since the medieval period for hues that read as undecorated and direct. Plain white, plain blue: moderate saturation, no shift, no surface effect. Sits in the crisp-bucket center, with the implication of restraint rather than absence.

Old French forrer, to-line-with-fur. As a color modifier, fur implies a soft-pelt-and-mammal-coat quality, the visual register of Russian-and-Canadian-fur hand-trapped-and-prepared mink-and-sable-and-fox Russian-and-Canadian-fur-coat-and-trim surfaces under Russian-and-Canadian hand-trapped-fur-coat-and-trim atelier light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to pelt and fluff in usage.

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.