Surveyed Prow Moss

Old French surveer, to look upon — past-participle of survey. As a color modifier, surveyed implies a clear-and-measured-and-coordinated quality, the crisp color of Mason-Dixon-Line-and-Royal-Navy-Hydrographic scientific-and-cadastral land-and-sea surveying tradition. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to mapped and plotted in usage.

Old French proue, ship's-front. As a color modifier, prow implies a ship's-front-and-figurehead quality, the visual register of Royal-Navy-and-Tall-Ship-Prow hand-carved ship's-front-and-figurehead prow-and-cutwater-and-bowsprit maritime-architecture surfaces under tall-ship-prow-and-figurehead maritime-headway light. Sits at the modifier-and-nautical end of the grid, parallel to bow and hull 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.