Aligned Brine Ocean

French à-ligne, to-line-up — past-participle of align. As a color modifier, aligned implies a clear-and-axis-coordinated quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-parallel-arranged elements. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to symmetrical and squared in usage.

Old English brȳne, salt-water-or-pickle-brine. As a color modifier, brine implies a salt-water-and-pickle-and-tide-pool quality, the visual register of Atlantic-tide-pool-and-pickling-brine hand-salt-water-and-pickle-and-tide-pool Atlantic-tide-pool-and-pickling-brine-and-Cornish-rock-pool brine-and-salt-water-and-pickle surfaces under Atlantic-tide-pool-and-pickling-brine-and-Cornish-rock-pool Lizard-Point-and-North-Cornish-coast salt-tide-pool-light. Sits at the modifier-and-weather end of the grid, parallel to floe and torrent 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.