Hygienic Robe 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.

Old French robe, long-flowing-garment. As a color modifier, robe implies a long-flowing-and-academic-and-judicial quality, the visual register of Oxford-Cambridge-academic-and-judicial-robe hand-long-flowing-and-academic-and-judicial Oxford-Cambridge-academic-and-judicial-robe-and-monastic-habit robe-and-long-flowing-and-academic surfaces under Oxford-Cambridge-academic-and-judicial-robe-and-monastic-habit Senate-and-Inns-of-Court-and-cathedral-cloister Trinity-Senior-Common-Room-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to gown and cope 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.