Voluptuous Morn Forest

Latin voluptuōsus, pleasurable — derived from voluptās (pleasure). As a color modifier, voluptuous implies a saturated-and-rich-and-curving-sensual quality, the deep-rich color of Rubens-and-Boucher baroque-and-rococo flesh-and-fabric tonality. Sits at the bold-and-saturated end of the grid, parallel to lush and plush in tone.

Old English morgen, morning. As a color modifier, morn implies an early-light-and-dew quality, the visual register of English-pasture-and-meadow early-morning dew-soaked-grass-and-mist atmospheric soft-low-light surfaces under early-morning meadow light. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to day and dawn 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.