Mapped Glare Verdigris

Latin mappa, cloth / napkin — past-participle of map. As a color modifier, mapped implies a clear-and-cartographic-and-surveyed quality, the crisp color of Ordnance-Survey-and-USGS scientific-and-cadastral cartographic-and-topographic mapping-and-projection. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to plotted and surveyed in usage.

Middle English glaren, to-shine-brightly. As a color modifier, glare implies a harsh-and-bright-and-overwhelming quality, the visual register of desert-noon-and-snow-field-glare hand-harsh-and-bright-and-overwhelming desert-noon-and-snow-field-and-salt-flat glared-and-harsh-and-bright-and-overwhelming surfaces under desert-noon-and-snow-field-and-salt-flat overhead-sun-and-snow-blind-and-bleached harsh-noon-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to flash and blaze in usage.

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.