Ironed Nebula Teal

Old English īsern, iron — past-participle of iron. As a color modifier, ironed implies a clear-and-smoothed-and-pressed quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern freshly-ironed-shirt-and-trouser dress-attire textile finish. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to pressed and starched in usage.

Latin nebula, mist-or-cloud. As a color modifier, nebula implies a glowing-cloud-and-stellar-cradle quality, the visual register of Orion-and-Eagle-Nebula hand-glowing-cloud-and-stellar-cradle Orion-and-Eagle-and-Crab-Nebula nebula-and-glowing-cloud-and-stellar-cradle surfaces under Orion-and-Eagle-and-Crab-Nebula Hubble-and-James-Webb-deep-field stellar-cradle-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to plasma and meteor in usage.

Anas crecca, the small dabbling duck whose male in breeding plumage sports a chestnut head crossed by a glossy green-blue stripe. The color refers to that stripe — the iridescent panel just behind the eye: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical depth of structural color rather than pigment. Cooler than cypress, warmer than cerulean, with the ornithological specificity of a color named for one feather of one bird.