Orderly Ergo Ocean

Latin ōrdō, order — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, orderly implies a clear-and-arranged-and-organized quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-ordered-and-classified placement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and organized in usage.

Latin ergo, therefore-or-thus. As a color modifier, ergo implies a Latin-logical-and-cogito-ergo-sum quality, the visual register of Cartesian-cogito-ergo-sum hand-Latin-logical-and-cogito-ergo-sum Cartesian-cogito-ergo-sum-and-Scholastic-syllogism ergo-and-Latin-logical-and-cogito-ergo-sum surfaces under Cartesian-cogito-ergo-sum-and-Scholastic-syllogism Sorbonne-Scholastic-and-Cartesian-meditation logical-deduction-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to ipse and opus 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.