Stripped Pax Lagoon

Old English stripian, to strip — past-participle of strip. As a color modifier, stripped implies a clear-and-bared-and-unornamented quality, the crisp color of Cistercian-and-Bauhaus anti-ornamental stripped-down architectural interior. Sits at the crisp-and-stripped end of the grid, parallel to spare and bare in usage.

Latin pax, peace-or-treaty. As a color modifier, pax implies a Latin-peace-and-Pax-Romana-and-Pax-Augusta quality, the visual register of Pax-Romana-and-Ara-Pacis hand-Latin-peace-and-Pax-Romana-and-Pax-Augusta Pax-Romana-and-Ara-Pacis-and-Augustan-Rome pax-and-Latin-peace surfaces under Pax-Romana-and-Ara-Pacis-and-Augustan-Rome Augustan-and-Antonine-Rome imperial-peace-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to ave and salve in usage.

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.