Pleasant Cast Moss

From the French plaisant, pleasing — used as a color modifier since the fifteenth century for hues that read as agreeable, the kind of color that wears well over a long viewing without becoming demanding or fatiguing. Pleasant green, pleasant rose: moderate saturation combined with optical comfort. Sits at the crisp-bucket alongside easy and calm.

Old Norse kasta, to-throw / to-mold. As a color modifier, cast implies a poured-metal-and-shaped quality, the visual register of foundry-cast-iron-and-bronze hand-poured-and-cooled iron-and-bronze-and-tin foundry-cast-and-shaped surfaces under foundry-cast-iron-and-bronze workshop-light. Sits at the modifier-and-texture end of the grid, parallel to forged and hewn 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.