Candid Celtic Teal

Latin candidus, bright-white / honest — derived from candēre (to shine). As a color modifier, candid implies a clear-and-honest-and-direct quality where the hue carries the visual register of straightforward-honest declaration. Sits at the crisp-and-honest end of the grid, parallel to frank and plainspoken in usage.

Latin Celticus, of-the-Celts. As a color modifier, celtic implies a knotwork-and-La-Tène quality, the visual register of Irish-and-Welsh-and-Scottish Celtic-knotwork hand-carved bronze-and-stone metalwork-and-illuminated-manuscript surfaces under Celtic-Irish-Welsh-Scottish illuminated-manuscript-tradition light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to norse and welsh 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.