Triumphant Down Forest

Latin triumphāns, celebrating victory — present-participle of triumphāre. As a color modifier, triumphant implies a saturated-and-celebratory-and-victorious quality, the deep-rich color of Roman-Imperial-period triumphal-arch spolia relief and Arch-of-Titus victory imagery. Sits at the bold-and-celebratory end of the grid, parallel to victorious and conquering.

Old Norse dúnn, down / soft-feather. As a color modifier, down implies a soft-feather-undercoat quality, the visual register of eider-and-goose-down hand-plucked-and-cleaned eider-and-goose-down soft-feather-undercoat surfaces under eider-and-goose-down hand-plucked-and-cleaned bedding-and-cushion light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to fluff and fur 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.