Drafted Toltec Lagoon

Old English draht, draft — past-participle of draft. As a color modifier, drafted implies a clear-and-line-and-measured quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern hand-drafted architectural-and-engineering studio-drawing precision-tool-rendered lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to drawn and plotted in usage.

Nahuatl Tolteca, Toltec. As a color modifier, toltec implies a Tula-and-Mesoamerican quality, the visual register of Toltec-civilization-of-Tula post-Classic Mesoamerican hand-carved Atlantean-warrior-and-feathered-serpent stone-monumental surfaces under Tula-Hidalgo-and-Chichen-Itza post-Classic Mesoamerican high-altitude light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to aztec and olmec 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.