Drawn Wake 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.

Old English wacian, to be awake. As a color modifier, wake implies a morning-rising-and-dawn quality, the visual register of first-light-and-dawn-rising atmospheric soft-low-light Rayleigh-scattered first-of-the-day pre-dawn-and-dawn surfaces under first-light dawn-rising light. Sits at the modifier-and-time end of the grid, parallel to rise and morn 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.