Inviting Wire Teal

Latin invītāre, to invite — present-participle of invite. As a color modifier, inviting implies a clear-and-cordial-and-encouraging quality where the hue carries the visual register of warm-inviting-and-encouraging entrance-foyer color tone. Sits at the crisp-and-cheerful end of the grid, parallel to welcoming and hospitable in usage.

Old English wīr, wire. As a color modifier, wire implies a thin-drawn-metal quality, the visual register of hand-drawn-and-coiled-wire hand-drawn-and-coiled iron-and-copper-and-gold thin-drawn-metal-wire-and-mesh surfaces under hand-drawn-and-coiled-wire workshop-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to mesh and foil 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.