Bountiful Tile Violet

Old French bonté, goodness — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, bountiful implies a saturated-and-generous-and-abundant quality where the hue offers visual richness without measure. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to abundant and plentiful in usage.

Old English tigele, roof-tile. As a color modifier, tile implies a fired-clay-or-stone-flat quality, the visual register of Spanish-and-Italian-and-Persian-tile hand-fired-and-glazed clay-and-stone-and-marble Spanish-and-Italian-and-Persian-tile surfaces under Spanish-and-Italian-and-Persian-tile workshop-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to slab and plate in usage.

Viola odorata, the European sweet violet — small, fragrant, and the original meaning of the color name in English (the Violet of the rainbow). The color refers to a fresh sweet violet blossom in late winter: a saturated, slightly red-shifted deep blue-purple with the matte finish of small five-petaled flower. Cooler than amethyst, warmer than indigo, with the perfumed weight of a flower used in Roman garlands and Victorian eau de toilette.