Abstract: The landscape color of the forest can expand the aesthetic vision, enhance the aesthetic taste, and meet the growing aesthetic and recreational needs of the people in the new era. The color element is the first factor that affects the senses of the human body, and can fully display the visual beauty of the forest landscape. Therefore, it plays an increasingly important role in the construction of modern forest landscape. Based on current research progress of forest landscape color research, this paper summarizes the current major problems, and discusses the development trend of future forest landscape color research in order to provide basic reference for the research of forest landscape color planning and management in China.