Bold Page Rose

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.

Old French page, young-attendant. As a color modifier, page implies a court-and-knight's-young-attendant quality, the visual register of English-and-French-Court-Page hand-stitched livery-and-tabard-and-page-cap court-and-knight's-young-attendant surfaces under English-and-French-Court-Page hand-stitched livery-and-tabard ceremonial-court light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to knight and squire in usage.

The Latin rosa, the Greek rhodon, the Persian gul — every European language has a different name for the same flower and the same color. Rose covers the spectrum from blush to fuchsia depending on the cultivar, but in pigment shorthand it means a cool, slightly bluish red — the inside of a damask petal, the dye that washes out of madder root.