Color Names

Fern Shade

Forest floor under ferns, where dappled sunlight barely reaches.

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Fern Shade is a muted olive, close to brown.

It can be described as muted, dull, matte and soft.

Set in white, because white reads best on it.

Fern Shade

Fern

Ferns are a group of vascular plants that reproduce via spores and have neither seeds nor flowers. They reproduce in two phases, a short-lived gametophyte that reproduces sexually to develop a spore-bearing leaf structure. Some ferns produce coiled fiddleheads, which expand into fronds.

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Tint, shade and tone

In color theory, a tint is a mixture of a color with white, which increases lightness, while a shade is a mixture with black, which increases darkness. A tone is produced either by mixing a color with gray, or by both tinting and shading. Mixing a color with any neutral color reduces the chroma, or colorfulness, while the perceived hue can be affected slightly.

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fern

Noun

  1. Any of a group of some twenty thousand species of vascular plants classified in the division Pteridophyta that lack seeds and reproduce by shedding spores to initiate an alternation of generations.
  2. A light green color inspired by the color of ferns.
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shade

Noun

  1. Darkness where light, particularly sunlight, is blocked.
  2. Something that blocks light, particularly in a window.

Verb

  1. To shield (someone or something) from light.
  2. To shield oneself from light.
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