Rich Sash Forest

Old French riche, wealthy, abundant — applied to color since the medieval period for hues that read as plentiful in pigment. Rich red, rich brown: the implication is depth combined with saturation, a color that gives the eye more to absorb. Sits at the saturated mid-light corner of the engine's grid, slightly warmer than bold and deeper than vivid.

Arabic shāsh, muslin-strip-or-turban-cloth. As a color modifier, sash implies a wound-strip-and-cummerbund-and-bandolier quality, the visual register of Mughal-cummerbund-and-Spanish-fajín-sash hand-wound-strip-and-cummerbund-and-bandolier Mughal-cummerbund-and-Spanish-fajín-sash-and-Ottoman-sash sash-and-wound-strip-and-cummerbund surfaces under Mughal-cummerbund-and-Spanish-fajín-sash-and-Ottoman-sash Mughal-Delhi-and-Iberian-and-Ottoman-Topkapi wound-cloth-light. Sits at the modifier-and-textile end of the grid, parallel to kilt and shawl in usage.

The dense canopy of a temperate or tropical woodland — oak, beech, pine, eucalyptus, mahogany — wherever leaves close above to filter the light below. Forest green refers to the average reflectance of a healthy mid-summer canopy seen from below: a saturated, slightly muted green with the matte finish of layered chlorophyll. Deeper than fern, cooler than olive, with the ecological weight of a word that has named every wooded biome on Earth.