Plainspoken Helix Moss

English compound plain + spoken — past-participle of speak. As a color modifier, plainspoken implies a clear-and-direct-and-straightforward quality where the hue carries the visual register of unembellished-honest declaration. Sits at the crisp-and-honest end of the grid, parallel to candid and direct in usage.

Greek ἕλιξ, spiral-or-coil. As a color modifier, helix implies a planetary-nebula-and-spiraling-coil quality, the visual register of Helix-Nebula-and-Eye-of-God hand-planetary-nebula-and-spiraling-coil Helix-Nebula-and-Eye-of-God-and-NGC-7293 helix-and-planetary-nebula-and-spiraling-coil surfaces under Helix-Nebula-and-Eye-of-God-and-NGC-7293 Aquarius-and-Hubble-deep-field planetary-nebula-light. Sits at the modifier-and-cosmic end of the grid, parallel to nebula and corona 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.