Trim Eden Mint

Old English trymman, to make firm — sharing root with firm. As a color modifier, trim implies a clear-and-neatly-arranged quality where the hue carries the visual register of carefully-edited surface-detail. Sits at the crisp-and-neat end of the grid, parallel to neat and tidy in usage.

Hebrew ‘Ēden, garden-of-paradise. As a color modifier, eden implies a primal-paradise-and-garden-of-creation quality, the visual register of Genesis-Eden-and-Lucas-Cranach-paradise hand-primal-paradise-and-garden-of-creation Genesis-Eden-and-Lucas-Cranach-paradise-and-Northern-Renaissance eden-and-primal-paradise-and-garden-of-creation surfaces under Genesis-Eden-and-Lucas-Cranach-paradise-and-Northern-Renaissance Cranach-and-Bosch-and-Hieronymus primal-garden-light. Sits at the modifier-and-myth end of the grid, parallel to avalon and bliss 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.