Devout Lux Crimson

From the Latin devotus, consecrated — used principally in religious contexts for the dignified deep colors of sacred art and ecclesiastical dress. As a color modifier, devout implies saturation combined with restraint: the deep blues of Marian mantles, the deep reds of cardinals' robes. Sits in the bold-and-formal corner alongside imperial.

Latin lux, light. As a color modifier, lux implies a Latin-light-and-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna quality, the visual register of Genesis-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna hand-Latin-light-and-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna Genesis-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna-and-Requiem-mass lux-and-Latin-light-and-Fiat-Lux surfaces under Genesis-Fiat-Lux-and-Lux-Aeterna-and-Requiem-mass Vulgate-and-Tridentine-Mass primal-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to ignis and opus in usage.

From the Old Spanish cremesin, itself from the Arabic qirmiz — the kermes scale insect, dried and ground into a brilliant carmine dye prized in the medieval Mediterranean. For centuries the most expensive red on a draper's shelf, reserved for cardinals, kings, and the cloth that gave English the word crimson. Cooler than scarlet, deeper than rose; the color of pomegranate seeds and a serious occasion.