Hygienic Slav Verdigris

Greek hygieinós, healthful — derived from Hygieia (goddess of health). As a color modifier, hygienic implies a clear-and-medical-clean quality, the crisp color of Mid-Century-Modern clinical-and-hospital interior-architecture surfaces. Sits at the crisp-and-clean end of the grid, parallel to sanitary and sterile in usage.

Old Slavic Slověninъ, speaker / Slav. As a color modifier, slav implies an Eastern-European quality, the visual register of Slavonic-Russian-Polish-Czech hand-built Onion-domed-cathedral-and-folk-hand-painted Slavic-folk-tradition surfaces under Russian-Orthodox-and-Czech-and-Polish folk-painting cathedral light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to roman and celtic in usage.

The basic copper carbonate that forms on weathered copper and bronze — the pigment scraped from oxidized metal and used in Renaissance painting before being supplanted by more stable greens. The color refers to a thick verdigris on aged copper roofing or the Statue of Liberty's surface: a soft, slightly muted blue-green with the powdery finish of mineral oxide. Cooler than patina, warmer than seafoam, with the archaeological weight of a mineral made by time.