Flat Vita Teal

Old Norse flatr, flat / level. As a color modifier, flat implies a clear-and-evenly-spread quality where the hue carries the matte-finish visual register of unmodulated single-plane surface. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to level and even in usage.

Latin vita, life-or-living. As a color modifier, vita implies a Latin-life-and-living-quality quality, the visual register of Roman-vita-and-dolce-vita-Latin-life hand-Latin-life-and-living-quality Roman-vita-and-dolce-vita-Latin-life-and-Vergilian-pastoral vita-and-Latin-life-and-living-quality surfaces under Roman-vita-and-dolce-vita-Latin-life-and-Vergilian-pastoral Augustan-Rome-and-Renaissance-Italy living-Roman-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to amor and via 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.