Forceful Goth Royal

Old French force, strength — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, forceful implies a saturated-and-vigorous quality where the hue exerts visual force on its substrate. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to mighty and commanding in tone.

Greek Gothi, Goths. As a color modifier, goth implies a Germanic-tribal-migration quality, the visual register of Visigothic-and-Ostrogothic-Kingdoms late-Roman-period hand-built Germanic-Migration-period kingdom-and-fortification surfaces under Visigothic-Spain-and-Ostrogothic-Italy late-Roman Migration-Period sky. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to vandal and hun in usage.

The blue of European royal court dress and regalia from the late seventeenth century forward — the color of British peers' robes, French royal sashes, the lining of the crown-jewel cases. The color refers to a saturated, slightly violet-shifted blue with the matte finish of velvet or melton wool dyed to maximum intensity: deeper than cornflower, warmer than ultramarine, with the heraldic weight of a color reserved for monarchs and the official Crown.