Healthful Agora Moss

Old English hǣlth, health — adjectival suffix -ful. As a color modifier, healthful implies a clear-and-vital-and-wholesome quality where the hue carries the visual register of fresh-air-and-sunlight outdoor health-promoting environment. Sits at the crisp-and-wholesome end of the grid, parallel to salubrious and wholesome in usage.

Greek agora, Greek-marketplace. As a color modifier, agora implies a Greek-and-Athens-marketplace quality, the visual register of Athenian-and-Spartan-Agora hand-built marketplace-and-civic-meeting-square agora-and-stoa-and-bouleuterion classical-Greek architectural surfaces under Athenian-Agora-and-Spartan-Lacedaemon classical light. Sits at the modifier-and-architecture end of the grid, parallel to forum and stoa in usage.

Bryophyta — the nonvascular plants that colonized land 470 million years ago, before vascular plants and far before flowers. The color refers to a thick mat of Hypnum or sphagnum on a temperate forest floor: a soft, slightly yellow-shifted green with the velvet texture of millimeter-scale leaves. Dustier than fern, deeper than lichen, with the slow patience of a plant that lives by absorbing rain through its surface.