Plumb Eld Lagoon

Latin plumbum, lead — referring to the lead-weighted plumb-line of pre-modern carpentry. As a color modifier, plumb implies a clear-and-vertical-true quality where the hue carries the visual register of gravity-aligned-and-perfectly-vertical surface. Sits at the crisp-and-balanced end of the grid, parallel to level and squared in usage.

Old English eld, old-age / ancient-time. As a color modifier, eld implies an ancient-and-time-deep quality, the visual register of Bronze-Age-and-prehistoric multi-millennia archaeological-period eld-and-time-deep ancient-and-pre-historical surfaces under multi-millennia eld-and-time-deep light. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to yore and age in usage.

A shallow body of saltwater partially or fully enclosed by a barrier — coral atoll lagoons in the Pacific, Venice's Laguna Veneta, the Florida Keys' backcountry. The color refers to the average reflectance of a calm tropical lagoon at midday: a saturated, slightly muted blue-green with the optical clarity of shallow water over white sand. Brighter than reef, cooler than aquamarine, with the postcard weight of a Pacific atoll seen from above.