Orderly Ignis Moss

Latin ōrdō, order — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, orderly implies a clear-and-arranged-and-organized quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-ordered-and-classified placement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and organized in usage.

Latin ignis, fire. As a color modifier, ignis implies a Latin-fire-and-ignis-fatuus-and-sacred-fire quality, the visual register of Vestal-fire-and-ignis-fatuus hand-Latin-fire-and-ignis-fatuus-and-sacred-fire Vestal-fire-and-ignis-fatuus-and-Roman-Vesta-temple ignis-and-Latin-fire-and-Vestal-flame surfaces under Vestal-fire-and-ignis-fatuus-and-Roman-Vesta-temple Vestal-Virgin-and-Forum-Romanum sacred-flame-light. Sits at the modifier-and-Latin end of the grid, parallel to lux and ventus 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.