Disciplined Comet Turquoise

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.

Greek κομήτης, long-haired-or-tailed-star. As a color modifier, comet implies an icy-and-tailed-and-streaked quality, the visual register of Halley-and-Hale-Bopp-comet hand-icy-and-tailed-and-streaked Halley-and-Hale-Bopp-and-Encke-comet comet-and-icy-and-tailed-and-streaked surfaces under Halley-and-Hale-Bopp-and-Encke-comet sun-grazing-and-coma-and-ion-tail outer-system-arc-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to meteor and nebula 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.