Crimson & Cerulean & Lavender

Cerulean (deep, cyan blue — the most immediately internationally recognized color in the world: the specific deep cyan blue of the Aegean Sea as seen from the white-washed Cycladic villages of Santorini — the most photographed and the most immediately world-recognized travel landscape) and Lavender (pale, medium purple — the pale lavender of the wild thyme — Thymus capitatus — and the cascading wisteria that blooms across the most characteristic Santorini terraces and village walls in spring) create the most specifically Santorini Greek island and the most immediately internationally iconic cool pair. Against Crimson's passionate bougainvillea warm, this creates the most specifically Greek island Santorini summer palette.

The palette is the visual world of Santorini (Θήρα — Thera — the most internationally photographed and the most immediately recognizable travel destination in the world — the Cycladic island of Santorini — the remnant caldera of one of the most massive volcanic eruptions in human history — the Minoan eruption of approximately 1600 BCE — with the iconic white-washed cubic architecture, the most vivid blue-domed churches, and the most dramatic caldera cliff views creating the single most internationally reproduced 'Greek island' photograph in the world). The Santorini summer palette: the deep vivid crimson of the bougainvillea (the characteristic deep, vivid crimson-to-magenta of the most extensively planted and the most dramatically blooming bougainvillea — the signature ornamental plant of Greek island villages — cascading over the most perfectly white-washed walls and spilling over the most characteristically blue-domed church roofs of Oia and Fira); the deep cyan blue of the Aegean (the most immediately famous and the most universally recognized single travel landscape color: the specific deep cyan blue of the Aegean Sea as seen from the Santorini caldera rim — from the white-washed villages of Oia and Fira looking west over the most dramatically flooded volcanic caldera — approximately 12 km across and 400 meters deep — to the most vivid cerulean Aegean horizon); and the pale medium lavender of the island botanical (the characteristic pale, medium purple of the wild thyme — Thymus capitatus — the most aromatic and the most characteristically Aegean island herb — and the trailing wisteria that blooms across the most typical Santorini pergola and terrace structures in late spring).