Cool Frock Turquoise

Old English cōl, of low temperature — used as a color modifier as the complement to warm. Cool gray, cool blue: the optical impression of a slight blue-green shift, even within otherwise warm or neutral hues. Sits across the crisp, hushed, pale, and neutral buckets.

Old French froc, monk's-habit-or-loose-garment. As a color modifier, frock implies a monk's-habit-and-pinafore-and-day-frock quality, the visual register of Benedictine-monk's-frock-and-Edwardian-day-frock hand-monk's-habit-and-pinafore-and-day-frock Benedictine-monk's-frock-and-Edwardian-day-frock-and-pinafore frock-and-monk's-habit-and-pinafore surfaces under Benedictine-monk's-frock-and-Edwardian-day-frock-and-pinafore Cluny-Abbey-and-Edwardian-tea-room habit-and-day-dress-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to gown and cope in usage.

The hydrated copper-aluminum phosphate mined in Persia and the American Southwest for thousands of years — the firuze of Iran, the chalchihuitl of Mesoamerica, the heart of Pueblo and Navajo silverwork. The color refers to a fine Sleeping Beauty turquoise from Arizona: a saturated, slightly green-shifted blue with the slight matrix of host-rock veining. Brighter than persian, lighter than cerulean.