Orderly Pepper Mint

Latin ōrdō, order — adjectival suffix -ly. As a color modifier, orderly implies a clear-and-arranged-and-organized quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-ordered-and-classified placement. Sits at the crisp-and-orderly end of the grid, parallel to methodical and organized in usage.

Latin piper, black-pepper-corn. As a color modifier, pepper implies a black-pepper-corn-and-Malabar-Coast quality, the visual register of Malabar-Coast-and-Vietnamese-pepper hand-black-pepper-corn-and-Malabar-Coast Malabar-Coast-and-Vietnamese-pepper-and-Tellicherry pepper-and-black-pepper-corn surfaces under Malabar-Coast-and-Vietnamese-pepper-and-Tellicherry Malabar-and-Tellicherry-and-Phu-Quoc Indian-Ocean-spice-light. Sits at the modifier-and-flavor end of the grid, parallel to clove and cumin 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.