Organized Bluff Ocean

Greek órganon, instrument / tool — past-participle of organize. As a color modifier, organized implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-systematic quality where the hue carries the visual register of well-coordinated-and-classified arrangement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to orderly and methodical in usage.

Middle Dutch blaf, broad-and-flat. As a color modifier, bluff implies a high-river-bank quality, the visual register of Mississippi-and-Missouri-River-Bluffs tall sediment-and-loess river-bank cliff-face surfaces in late-afternoon Mississippi-and-Missouri-River raking light. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to cliff and crag 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.