Drawn Bog Mint

Old English dragan, to draw — past-participle of draw. As a color modifier, drawn implies a clear-and-line-and-mark quality, the crisp color of Old-Master-and-Modernist hand-drawn studio-and-life-class observational-drawing graphite-and-charcoal lines. Sits at the crisp-and-incised end of the grid, parallel to etched and drafted in usage.

Irish bog, soft-and-wet. As a color modifier, bog implies a peat-soaked-and-soft quality, the visual register of Connemara-and-Yorkshire-Moors peat-bog blanket-bog-and-cotton-grass wet-and-sphagnum-moss surfaces under wet West-of-Ireland atmospheric overcast. Sits at the modifier-and-place end of the grid, parallel to fen and moor in usage.

The genus Mentha — peppermint, spearmint, apple mint, water mint — the cooling herb whose menthol gives it that quality at the molecular level. The color refers to fresh peppermint leaves before drying: a clean, slightly cool green with the matte finish of trichome-rich leaf surface. Lighter than basil, cooler than parsley, with the mojito-and-Pimm's association of a herb tied to summer drinks across two continents.