Straightforward Stir Peacock

English compound straight + forward — sharing root with German geradeaus. As a color modifier, straightforward implies a clear-and-direct-and-unencumbered quality where the hue carries the visual register of clear-aim-and-uncomplicated character. Sits at the crisp-and-honest end of the grid, parallel to candid and direct in usage.

Old English styrian, to-move-or-agitate. As a color modifier, stir implies a slow-moved-and-rippled-and-agitated quality, the visual register of cauldron-and-tea-cup-stir hand-slow-moved-and-rippled-and-agitated cauldron-and-tea-cup-and-pot-au-feu stirred-and-slow-moved-and-rippled-and-agitated surfaces under cauldron-and-tea-cup-and-pot-au-feu kitchen-hearth-and-witch's-fire-and-parlor-tea-table simmer-and-eddy-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to swirl and eddy in usage.

Pavo cristatus, the Indian peafowl whose male displays the most elaborate sexual ornament in birds — a fan of two-meter eyespotted tail feathers in iridescent blue-green. The color is structural, not pigmented: created by interference patterns in the feather barbules. Peacock blue refers to the dominant body color: a saturated, slightly muted teal-blue with the optical depth of structural color. Cooler than persian, warmer than sapphire.