Plotted Hollow Lagoon

Old English plot, small piece of ground — past-participle of plot. As a color modifier, plotted implies a clear-and-coordinate-mapped quality, the crisp color of Cartesian-and-graph-paper coordinate-plotted scientific-and-engineering data-visualization plot-line. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to mapped and surveyed in usage.

Old English holh, hollow-place. As a color modifier, hollow implies a scooped-and-empty-and-resonant quality, the visual register of bell-and-gourd-and-tree-hollow hand-scooped-and-empty-and-resonant bell-and-gourd-and-tree-hollow hollowed-and-scooped-and-empty-and-resonant surfaces under bell-and-gourd-and-tree-hollow campanile-and-harvest-and-old-oak resonant-and-empty-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to void and blank in usage.

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.