Practical Yarn Ocean

Greek praktikós, practical — adjectival suffix -al. As a color modifier, practical implies a clear-and-purpose-fit-and-everyday quality where the hue carries the visual register of Shaker-and-Quaker utilitarian-and-functional everyday-life craft. Sits at the crisp-and-functional end of the grid, parallel to functional and workmanlike in usage.

Old English gearn, spun-thread. As a color modifier, yarn implies a hand-spun-thread-and-skein quality, the visual register of hand-spun-yarn-skein hand-spun-and-skeined wool-and-cotton-and-linen hand-spun-yarn-and-skein surfaces under hand-spun-and-skeined yarn-and-skein workshop-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to spun and knit 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.