Hygienic Tribe 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.

Latin tribus, one-of-three-original-tribes. As a color modifier, tribe implies a kin-and-clan-and-extended-family quality, the visual register of pre-modern-tribal-and-kinship hand-built tent-and-totem-and-elder-council clan-and-kinship surfaces under pre-modern tribal-and-kinship hand-built encampment-and-elder-council firelight. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to clan and kin 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.