Plumb Hun Teal

Latin plumbum, lead — referring to the lead-weighted plumb-line of pre-modern carpentry. As a color modifier, plumb implies a clear-and-vertical-true quality where the hue carries the visual register of gravity-aligned-and-perfectly-vertical surface. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to level and squared in usage.

Greek Hunni, Huns. As a color modifier, hun implies a Central-Asian-steppe-migration quality, the visual register of Attila-the-Hun late-Roman-period Central-Asian steppe-migration-and-mounted-archery hand-built warrior-camp surfaces under Central-Asian-steppe-and-Pannonian-plain Hunnic-Age horse-archer light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to vandal and goth 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.