Surveyed Knight Mint

Old French surveer, to look upon — past-participle of survey. As a color modifier, surveyed implies a clear-and-measured-and-coordinated quality, the crisp color of Mason-Dixon-Line-and-Royal-Navy-Hydrographic scientific-and-cadastral land-and-sea surveying tradition. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to mapped and plotted in usage.

Old English cniht, young-man / knight. As a color modifier, knight implies a chivalric-and-armored quality, the visual register of English-Plantagenet-and-French-Capetian hand-forged plate-armor-and-shield-and-lance-and-pennant knightly-and-chivalric surfaces under English-Plantagenet-and-French-Capetian chivalric-armored-knight ceremonial-court light. Sits at the modifier-and-cultural end of the grid, parallel to squire and page 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.