Drafted Vesper Ocean

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.

Latin vespera, evening. As a color modifier, vesper implies an evening-prayer-and-dusk quality, the visual register of Roman-Catholic-and-Orthodox-Vespers evening-prayer-and-dusk hour-of-day evening-prayer-and-incense liturgical surfaces under Vespers-and-Compline ecclesiastical-evening candlelight. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to eve and knell in usage.

The body of saltwater that covers seventy percent of Earth's surface — a single connected mass divided by convention into Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Southern, and Arctic. The color refers to the average reflectance of mid-depth temperate ocean: a saturated, slightly green-shifted deep blue with the optical depth of a body of water that absorbs all light below the photic zone. Deeper than mediterranean, cooler than peacock.