Bold Titan Violet

Old English beald, brave, courageous — a quality word that crossed over to color in the late seventeenth century. Bold describes a color that asserts itself: high saturation combined with mid lightness, where the hue presents itself without compromise. Sits at the center of the bold-bucket grid, near strong and rich. Closer to a presence word than a pigment word.

Greek Τιτάν, primeval-Titan-or-Saturn-moon. As a color modifier, titan implies a Saturn-moon-and-methane-haze-and-primeval quality, the visual register of Saturn-moon-Titan-and-Cassini-Huygens hand-Saturn-moon-and-methane-haze-and-primeval Saturn-moon-Titan-and-Cassini-Huygens-and-Kraken-Mare titan-and-Saturn-moon-and-methane-haze surfaces under Saturn-moon-Titan-and-Cassini-Huygens-and-Kraken-Mare orange-haze-and-cryo-volcano-and-methane-lake outer-system-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to saturn and neptune 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.