Serviceable Tied Turquoise

Latin servītium, service — adjectival suffix -able. As a color modifier, serviceable implies a clear-and-fit-for-purpose-and-durable quality where the hue carries the visual register of long-lasting-and-functional everyday-use design. Sits at the crisp-and-functional end of the grid, parallel to practical and utilitarian in usage.

Old English tīgan, to-tie or to-bind. As a color modifier, tied implies a hand-tied-and-knotted quality, the visual register of hand-tied-and-knotted-rope-and-string hand-tied-and-knotted-fishing-net-and-shoelace-and-bow hand-tied-and-knotted-rope-and-cord surfaces under hand-tied-and-knotted-rope-and-cord working-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to sewn and knot in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.