Mapped Mongol Teal

Latin mappa, cloth / napkin — past-participle of map. As a color modifier, mapped implies a clear-and-cartographic-and-surveyed quality, the crisp color of Ordnance-Survey-and-USGS scientific-and-cadastral cartographic-and-topographic mapping-and-projection. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to plotted and surveyed in usage.

Mongolian Mongɣol, Mongol. As a color modifier, mongol implies a steppe-and-Khanate quality, the visual register of Mongol-Khanate-of-Genghis Central-Asian steppe-Empire hand-built ger-and-mounted-cavalry-and-felt-rug-and-Khan-court surfaces under Karakorum-and-Mongolian-steppe Khanate-and-mounted-cavalry open-sky light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to tatar and hun in usage.

Anas crecca, the small dabbling duck whose male in breeding plumage sports a chestnut head crossed by a glossy green-blue stripe. The color refers to that stripe — the iridescent panel just behind the eye: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical depth of structural color rather than pigment. Cooler than cypress, warmer than cerulean, with the ornithological specificity of a color named for one feather of one bird.