Plotted Lurk Mint

Old English plot, small piece of ground — past-participle of plot. As a color modifier, plotted implies a clear-and-coordinate-mapped quality, the crisp color of Cartesian-and-graph-paper coordinate-plotted scientific-and-engineering data-visualization plot-line. Sits at the crisp-and-mapped end of the grid, parallel to mapped and surveyed in usage.

Middle English lurken, to-lie-hidden. As a color modifier, lurk implies a hidden-and-watching-and-shadowed quality, the visual register of forest-edge-and-alley-mouth-lurk hand-hidden-and-watching-and-shadowed forest-edge-and-alley-mouth-and-bridge-undercroft lurked-and-hidden-and-watching-and-shadowed surfaces under forest-edge-and-alley-mouth-and-bridge-undercroft Gothic-novel-and-fairy-tale-and-noir half-light. Sits at the modifier-and-mood end of the grid, parallel to creep and prowl 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.