Symmetrical Hide Turquoise

Greek symmetría, due-proportion — adjectival suffix -al, derived from sym-metron (with-measure). As a color modifier, symmetrical implies a clear-and-balanced-and-mirrored quality where the hue carries the visual register of bilateral-or-radial proportional symmetry. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to balanced and aligned in usage.

Old English hȳd, skin / hide. As a color modifier, hide implies a tanned-leather-and-skin quality, the visual register of cattle-and-deer-and-pig-hide hand-tanned-and-vegetable-tanned cattle-and-deer-and-pig-skin hand-tanned-leather-hide surfaces under tanned-leather-and-skin tanning-yard light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to pelt and fur in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.