Bountiful Chili Strawberry

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.

Nahuatl chīlli, capsicum-fruit. As a color modifier, chili implies a Mesoamerican-capsicum-and-fiery quality, the visual register of Mesoamerican-and-Oaxacan-chili hand-Mesoamerican-capsicum-and-fiery Mesoamerican-and-Oaxacan-chili-and-Yucatec-and-Veracruzano chili-and-Mesoamerican-capsicum surfaces under Mesoamerican-and-Oaxacan-chili-and-Yucatec-and-Veracruzano Oaxaca-and-Veracruz-and-Yucatán Mesoamerican-spice-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to pepper and pimento in usage.

Fragaria × ananassa, the cultivated strawberry of European gardens since the eighteenth century. The color refers to the surface of a ripe berry: a clean, bright red with a slight blue shift in the shadows of the achenes. Warmer than ruby, lighter than crimson, with the optical brightness of fresh fruit rather than the depth of pigment or gem.