Neat Mass Moss

Old French net, clean / pure — sharing root with Latin nitidus. As a color modifier, neat implies a clear-and-orderly quality where the hue carries the well-arranged visual register without clutter or excess. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to trim and tidy in usage.

Latin missa, Mass-of-the-Eucharist. As a color modifier, mass implies a Eucharistic-and-liturgical-feast quality, the visual register of Roman-Catholic-and-Anglican-Mass Eucharistic-and-liturgical-feast altar-and-vestment-and-incense liturgical-Mass surfaces under Mass-and-Eucharistic-feast altar-candle-and-incense light. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to vigil and vesper 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.