42 Shades of Fern Color

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1. #e1ddbf

   

   Silver Fern Color

   New Zealand’s silver fern, the ponga tree fern Cyathea dealbata, is named for a pale underside that Māori turned upward to mark forest trails at night. This Silver Fern color (#e1ddbf) is a pale greenish cream, closer to that frond’s back than its dark top. Te Ara, the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, traces the fern’s role as a national emblem to 1888, when the New Zealand Natives rugby team first wore it on their tour of Britain.

2. #009b54

   

   Fern Green Color

   Fern Green color (#009b54) is a saturated emerald with enough blue to stay crisp, the cool green of fronds growing in the shade of a creek bank. It’s a shade deeper than Wikipedia’s Green (pigment) at #00a550. Of the two, this one has more forest floor in it.

3. #e6e6d0

   

   Light Fern Green Color

   Light Fern Green is so pale it passes for cream, with red and green tied at 230 and blue at 208. Only a faint yellow-green tint separates it from ivory. It matches the underside of a young fern frond held up to the sun, and warm light erases the green entirely.

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