Sanitary Lux Ocean

Latin sānitās, health — adjectival suffix -ary. As a color modifier, sanitary implies a clear-and-clean-and-medical quality, the crisp color of Bauhaus-and-Modern clinical-and-hospital interior-architecture white-tile-and-stainless-steel surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to hygienic and sterile in usage.

Latin lux, light. As a color modifier, lux implies a Latin-light-and-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna quality, the visual register of Genesis-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna hand-Latin-light-and-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna Genesis-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna-and-Requiem-mass lux-and-Latin-light-and-Fiat-Lux surfaces under Genesis-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna-and-Requiem-mass Vulgate-and-Tridentine-Mass primal-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to ignis and opus 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.