Refreshing Slab Ocean

Old French refreschir, to make fresh again — present-participle of refresh. As a color modifier, refreshing implies a clear-and-cool-and-revitalizing quality, the crisp color of Cornish-coast and Hebridean-island fresh-sea-air-and-cool-water revitalization. Sits at the crisp-and-cool end of the grid, parallel to fresh and bracing in usage.

Old French esclape, splinter / slab. As a color modifier, slab implies a flat-thick-stone-or-wood quality, the visual register of Cotswold-and-Yorkshire-flagstone-and-slab hand-quarried-and-flat-thick stone-and-timber-and-marble hand-quarried-flat-thick-slab surfaces under Cotswold-and-Yorkshire flagstone-and-slab quarry-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to plate and tile 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.