Mainly it is about how smoothly the fingertip leaves the string when plucking it. For example with fingernails, how are they are shaped and how polished are they? Pushing downward rather than more across makes less difference, though I think there could be less unwanted movement of the unwound strings on the saddle with downward picking.
Rest strokes usually have a bit more full and rounded tone than free strokes, but again IMO that mainly results from how smoothly the picking fingertip leaves the string (in rest strokes the
fingertip tends to be flexed backward a little as it leaves the string).
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