Lined Nereid Moss

Old English līne, line / cord — past-participle of line. As a color modifier, lined implies a clear-and-coordinated-and-supported quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-lined-and-supported textile-or-print surface. Sits at the crisp-and-finished end of the grid, parallel to trim and coordinated in usage.

Greek Νηρηΐς, sea-nymph-daughter-of-Nereus. As a color modifier, nereid implies a sea-nymph-and-Aegean-foam quality, the visual register of Hellenic-Nereid-and-Aegean-sea-nymph hand-sea-nymph-and-Aegean-foam Hellenic-Nereid-and-Aegean-sea-nymph-and-Poseidon-court nereid-and-sea-nymph-and-Aegean-foam surfaces under Hellenic-Nereid-and-Aegean-sea-nymph-and-Poseidon-court Aegean-island-and-rocky-cove sea-nymph-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to nymph and dryad 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.