Spartan Welsh Forest

Greek Spartiátēs, of Sparta — adjectival suffix referring to the Lacedaemonian warrior city. As a color modifier, spartan implies a saturated-and-disciplined-and-formal quality, the deep-rich color of Spartan-hoplite military-class crimson-and-bronze armor-and-cloak. Sits at the bold-and-formal end of the grid, parallel to austere and stern in tone.

Old English Wælisc, of-Wales. As a color modifier, welsh implies a Cymric-and-slate quality, the visual register of Welsh-Cymric hand-built slate-and-stone-and-Welsh-wool valley-and-mountain hand-spun-and-hand-quarried surfaces under Welsh-Cymric Snowdonia-and-Brecon-Beacons valley light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to celtic and scot 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.