Squared Frieze Ocean

Latin quadrātus, four-sided — past-participle of square. As a color modifier, squared implies a clear-and-rectilinear-and-orthogonal quality where the hue carries the visual register of right-angle architectural-and-grid alignment. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to aligned and plumb in usage.

Old French frise, band-of-decoration. As a color modifier, frieze implies a horizontal-decorative-band quality, the visual register of Greek-Parthenon-and-Roman-Imperial-frieze hand-carved Doric-and-Ionic-and-Corinthian classical-decorative-frieze architectural surfaces under classical-frieze decorative-band light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to eave and plinth in usage.

The body of saltwater that covers seventy percent of Earth's surface — a single connected mass divided by convention into Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The color refers to the average reflectance of mid-depth temperate ocean: a saturated, slightly green-shifted deep blue with the optical depth of a body of water that absorbs all light below the photic zone. Deeper than mediterranean, cooler than peacock.