Boreal Forest

A palette from the world's great northern forest biome: deep spruce, pine shadow, lichen gray, birch bark, and the pale frost of a winter sky. Cold, ancient, and clean.

The boreal forest palette differs from temperate forest palettes in its coldness and blue-gray undertones. The spruce and pine greens lean toward blue rather than yellow, the grays carry the cool tone of granite and permafrost, and the accents come from frost and pale winter sky rather than warm autumn light. This makes it distinctly different from, say, Autumn Harvest or Forest Floor — it reads as more severe, more northern, and more minimal.