Surveyed Knit Robin

Old French surveer, to look upon — past-participle of survey. As a color modifier, surveyed implies a clear-and-measured-and-coordinated quality, the crisp color of Mason-Dixon-Line-and-Royal-Navy-Hydrographic scientific-and-cadastral land-and-sea surveying tradition. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to mapped and plotted in usage.

Old English cnyttan, to-knit. As a color modifier, knit implies a hand-knitted-loop-and-stitch quality, the visual register of Aran-Island-and-Fair-Isle-knit hand-knitted-and-cabled wool-and-yarn jumper-and-cardigan knit-textile surfaces under Aran-and-Fair-Isle hand-knitted-cable-and-jumper textile light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to woven and yarn in usage.

The American robin (Turdus migratorius) — though the color refers not to the bird's red breast but to the egg, robin's-egg blue, a pale slightly green-shifted blue produced by biliverdin pigment in the eggshell. The color is the inside surface of a fresh robin's nest at peak laying: a soft, slightly green-shifted pale blue with the matte finish of avian eggshell. Lighter than aqua, cooler than turquoise.