Disciplined Flock Lagoon

Latin disciplīna, teaching / training — past-participle of discipline. As a color modifier, disciplined implies a clear-and-controlled-and-careful quality where the hue carries the visual register of careful-edited-and-restrained design-decision. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and orderly in usage.

Latin floccus, tuft-of-wool. As a color modifier, flock implies a tuft-of-wool-and-flocked-paper quality, the visual register of Victorian-flocked-wallpaper-and-Tudor-flocked-velvet hand-applied-and-tufted flocked-wallpaper-and-velvet flock-and-tuft surfaces under Victorian-flocked-wallpaper-and-Tudor-flocked-velvet interior-decoration light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to fluff and tufted 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.