Patrician Gold Sapphire

Latin patrīcius, of the noble class — derived from pater (father). As a color modifier, patrician implies a saturated-and-aristocratic-and-Roman-Republic quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Patrician-class toga and senatorial-livery hereditary-aristocratic dress. Sits at the bold-and-aristocratic end of the grid, parallel to senatorial and imperial.

Old English gold, gold. As a color modifier, gold implies a precious-malleable-metal quality, the visual register of hand-beaten-and-rolled-gold hand-beaten-gold-leaf-and-coin-and-bar Egyptian-and-Italian-Renaissance hand-beaten-gold-leaf surfaces under Egyptian-and-Renaissance hand-beaten-gold-leaf treasury-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to gilt and gloss in usage.

An iron-and-titanium-bearing corundum — the same mineral as ruby, hardness 9 on the Mohs scale, mined for two millennia from Sri Lanka, Burma, Madagascar, and the Cashmere mines of British India. The color refers to a fine Kashmir-cut sapphire: a saturated, slightly violet-shifted deep blue with the gem's signature internal velvet — a quality of light scattering in the stone that faceted glass cannot replicate. Cooler than cobalt, deeper than azure.