Bountiful Welsh Royal

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Old English Wælisc, of-Wales. As a color modifier, welsh implies a Cymric-and-slate quality, the visual register of Welsh-Cymric hand-built slate-and-stone-and-Welsh-wool valley-and-mountain hand-spun-and-hand-quarried surfaces under Welsh-Cymric Snowdonia-and-Brecon-Beacons valley light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to celtic and scot in usage.

The blue of European royal court dress and regalia from the late seventeenth century forward — the color of British peers' robes, French royal sashes, the lining of the crown-jewel cases. The color refers to a saturated, slightly violet-shifted blue with the matte finish of velvet or melton wool dyed to maximum intensity: deeper than cornflower, warmer than ultramarine, with the heraldic weight of a color reserved for monarchs and the official Crown.